Magical Engagement Photos by Samantha Paige Photography

I absolutely adore looking through our engagement photos. They are so beautiful and our photographer, Samantha at Samantha Paige Photography did an amazing job capturing our love for each other, our excitement, and the beautiful country we live in. Find her on Insta @samantha_paige_p that's where you can see snippets of her amazing work.

I love her light, bright, and airy look. It makes these magical times seem even more so. 

We wanted to do a fall shoot (we got engaged in August) and something that was a bit more formal. We already have beautiful winter photos, we will have gorgeous summer photos from our wedding in 2019, and this spring we should get some cute maternity photos.

 Here are a few of my absolute faves:

Making Our Rental Feel Like Home: Bedroom & Bath

I won't lie to you, friends, I very seriously miss my GIGANTIC old bedroom, huge closet, attached master bath, and wood floors. I loved that I had room for a chair, bed, dressers, desks, nightstands... all the things. However, what I've quickly realized since we moved is that we don't really need all of those things. In many ways it is much easier to keep the bathroom cleaned without it, I have less places to stack items I don't need in the bedroom, and cleaning is much faster with less floor to mop or vacuum. 

Our new room is probably just over half the size of our old one. Here's a small angle of what the master looked like when we first toured:

Making Our Rental Feel Like Home: The Kitchen & Dining Room

We spent a lot of time after we moved in making the house cozier for us. We love the kitchen and dining room area, but it definitely lacks in storage and the washer and dryer are in the kitchen right there. That was a compromise, for sure. At our old house it was off of the kitchen but separate enough that it worked. I wanted to make sure that it was at least as attractive as it could be. Having a place with a washer and dryer hook up was big, so dealing with it in the kitchen and not having shared laundry seemed a fine trade.