My Personal Life

Finally, a new blog post!!! Sorry it's been so long, this post took me forevvver to finish. If you follow me on Instagram, you know we recently took a cruise to Alaska, to celebrate Ben's 30th birthday. We got super lucky with the weather and didn't hit any rain at all, plus we got to see tons of amazing scenery and wildlife. And we ate to our heart's content (and then […]

Life update: the house inspection went well, so we're moving forward and will be closing on June 29th! I'm starting to plan out ideas, saving inspiration photos, and thinking about paint colors. FUN STUFF! Plus, we'll be heading out on our Alaska cruise at the end of this week. So it's an exciting time for the Allen family! In the meantime, I thought I'd share these photos from our cherry […]

Two very exciting things happened last week. Ian started saying "mama" AND we had an offer accepted on a house we really like! Woohoo! We are getting an inspection done on Thursday, so it's not final yet, but...it's looking like we might be buying a house!!! We found it literally the day after we started looked into rental options. Haha. We were feeling discouraged and wanting our own space so […]

It's been awhile since I did a rambly personal post...so let's catch up, shall we? How are you guys??? Me, I'm a mixed bag of emotions. On the one hand, I've been enjoying the beautiful spring weather here. We hung a hammock in my parent's backyard, got photos taken in a blossoming cherry orchard, did a big road race here in Spokane, and have spent lots of time outdoors. On the […]