Thank you to Champion for sponsoring this post. All content and opinions expressed here are my own. Click here to read my full disclosure policy.

If you’ve been a blog reader for a while, you may remember a post a shared several years ago on the upgrades we chose to make when we built our home and why we chose these particular items. (If you haven’t seen it, check it out here). When we built, we focused our upgrades on our home’s interior and didn’t make many changes to the exterior. But now that we’ve lived here for five years, we’re turning more of our attention to our home’s exterior and specifically, to upgrading our front door.

Continue reading →

This post is not sponsored, we just love our Nest Protect!

I always say you know you’ve reached adulthood when you get excited about receiving kitchen appliances, tools, etc, as gifts. We must really be adults now because we are pretty excited about our Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector. Well, I should say that the hubs is a bit more excited than me—he should be the one sharing this post, but he leaves the writing to me 🙂

Continue reading →

Now that Spring is really, truly here, I am itching to fill our porch, patio and flower beds with colorful blooms. In my hunt for some new ideas, I came across so many neat DIY planter ideas and container gardening ideas that I couldn’t resist sharing them with you!

Continue reading →