life lately.

flew to annapolis, maryland last week.

watched my little brother-in-law graduate from the academy

lots of fun-filled days with family

flew back yesterday

sick (trying to recover from all the time change/weather change)

drove to bend from portland this morning

picked up our girls

packing/cleaning/preparing to

begin our move south tomorrow.

i swear i might go crazy with all that we are doing.

naval academy graduation

our new place in c-bad.

i just want to get there. the next week is going to be nuts so i will likely not be posting until the following week.

you are all wonderful and i'll miss you terribly!

until next week then-when i'll have updates on our move and pictures of our new place ;)

happy monday/memorial day

babies.

babies.babies.babies.

it feels like they're everywhere. like here, here and here.
they are all over facebook. tons of people who got married shortly before or after we did who are already expecting.
sometimes i get a little baby crazy due to the adorableness everywhere!

via (googleimages-baby)

noah and i had spoken a lot about the subject when we first got married. seeing as we'd already been together for 4 years, i thought we should just start right away.
these were some tough conversations. my whole life my biggest goal has always been to be a mama. i've always loved children and just felt so natural around them, taking care of them.
i was feeling really anxious. then i realized noah was right, we are still really young with a lot more adventuring to do before bringing a little one into the world.
we've never really travelled together, except to NY, once.
and we had much more to see and experience before making a tiny one. (i call babies "tiny(s)" a lot)
anyway, we talked it over and decided to sit down and discuss/write out the goals we wanted to achieve before trying. instead of putting a time frame on it, making this list really seemed to take an enormous amount of pressure and anxiety off of both of us.

has anyone else experienced baby fever lately???
have you had any discussions like this?

i am so so happy for all of those out there experiencing parenthood for the first time right now
and i know when the time is right, noah and i will both know it and be ready

hope you have a lovely friday and weekend! we're finally getting some sunshine here.

mister.

okay. so lately i've realized something.
i am not the best at sharing things about my husband and i, our two pups and our life-after-wedding  here.
therefore i'm going to try and start doing more of that (good idea, bad idea??)

to start, i want to share with you all a bit more about mr. hershman, my other half:

(stud)

(friends!)

(the dogs-love this one)

(our cute little craftsman house)

(us-:))

he loves music.
tattoos.
me.

his friends.

his family.
skateboarding.
our two crazy dogs, zoey and talulah.
and last but not least, food.


he is a cook/chef. a really really good one.
he went to school for youth ministry but ended up cooking his way through it. he soon figured out it was his passion and now we hope to own our own little deli/cafe one day together.
he works here and here where we live in bend, or.
arguably two of the best places to eat in town.
i'm really proud of him and how passionate he is about food, cooking and the joy and love found in doing it.
he recently started a food blog! it's actually brand new, but i'd love for you all to check it out here.

have a beautiful tuesday!