A Look Back at Our 2017

2017, our year of *Hope & Hearts*

2017 has been quite a year for our PB&J family. We've experienced love, laughter, happy and sad tears and found the meaning of what means the most to us: *Hope & Hearts*

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

From our little PB&J family to yours... 


Wishing you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and the happiest holidays, ever!

Thank you for always being such a light in our lives by following along on our adventures on here. Here's to the warmest wishes and a bright new year ahead! 💜

Weathering Storms and Finding Rainbows (Again)

They say the brightest rainbows come after the strongest of storms.


Our rainbow journey is a true testament to this statement. The beginning of 2017 found ourselves dealing with the loss of our angel son. Mid 2017 we then found a rainbow with our little miracle on the way. To say that we experienced some of the lowest lows and highest highs of our lives during 2017 is an understatement. For each one of these moments though, we are thankful. Our journey has shown us how much love their is in the world, that no matter what there is always HOPE.

This couldn't have been true enough during some recent events during our journey. Just when we thought our rainbow journey to our family happily ever after was finally coming to a close with the birth of our son, we were hit with some unexpected news....

Our PB&J "Babymoon"

Rainbows, holiday magic and a magical Disney "Babymoon"...


What exactly is a "Babymoon"? It's a trip taken by parent's to be as their last duo "hurrah" before their bundle of joy joins them. PB and I love to travel, but in lieu of an exotic getaway or crazy travel adventure this time around we chose to celebrate with our closest loved ones with a "love & rainbows" celebration at Disney's 21 Royal a few months back. We knew we still wanted to do one more getaway to celebrate the upcoming arrival of Baby PB&J, so we decided to keep it simple (and magical) with a trip to the happiest place on Earth!

A Porsche Pit Stop!
PB loves Porsches. No really, his Porsche geekdom is much like my Disney geekdom. So when we decided to make our trip down and realized it coincided with the Porsche Experience LA's 1 year anniversary, we stopped by for some car fun! There was even a special appearance by a real life Sally from Pixar Cars!

Run, PB, Run!
Our babymoon trip was also the same weekend as the last RunDisney race at Disneyland, the Superheroes half! PB had pretty much caught the half marathon run bug after the Disneyland Half weekend a few months back and when he realized that this run would be the last event at Disneyland, he knew he had to sign up! Despite it being a last minute entry, literally 2 weeks before, he did amazing! He beat his past half marathon timing by 30 minutes. In fact, he was so fast, baby PB&J and I totally missed him crossing the finish line, lol. We're so proud of you, PB!
Holiday Wishes and Magic
Last but not least, our babymoon wouldn't have been complete without some Disney time! I love the holidays at the parks. Everything from the festive decor, the seasonal treats and ride overlays bring about so many warm and fuzzy feels.

We can't wait to bring our little Peanut here next year!
Love all of the festive decor, especially around Toontown!

Can't forget about all the yummy Disney holiday treats!
These gingerbread krispies were adorable and tasty, too!
Noms! Frozen hot chocolate and a mint whoopie pie were the perfect holiday combo!

Nothing is more magical than Disneyland's holiday fireworks! It's my absolute favorite, especially when the snow falls to "White Christmas" at the end. It brings back so many happy memories and we can't wait to experience it with our little one next year!
The snowfall, although barely visible in the photo, was falling all around! So beautiful!
Nothing is more magical than this holiday castle all lit up!
It's a Small World Holiday and all of it's festive cheeriness.
And Next Time There Will be Three!
A little surreal to know that the next time we take family photos like this, our little miracle will be with us!

And that's a wrap for our PB&J babymoon recap! It was short, but sweet and magical trip to our happiest place on Earth. We can't wait to be back for future holiday celebrations with our son and get to live out so many more happy moments together! Thank you so much for reading along 💜
Can't wait for you to complete our happily ever after!












Rainbows, Disney and a whole lot of Love: Our PB&J Baby Shower!

We're officially one month away from our projected due date with our little rainbow! 🌈