i heart these...

If you guys share my fondness for macarons and whoopie pies then you will be ecstatic to learn about these two new books coming out by Chronicle books this Spring. 

Another piece of fabulous information I heard through the grapevine... Starbucks is jumping on the band wagon and will start carrying macarons in select stores... who knew Starbucks was so Parisian? 

{via happy lady eats}

dreams come true

Four years ago when Rob proposed to me in St. Louis, he had made a map of all places we had talked about traveling. Also on that map he placed a picture of four boys (which were suppose to represent our future children). The crazy thing was on the map was a Finnley!!! To think four years later that vision would be coming true. To me, it's a testament to how much power your words have.... haha!! It makes be think of the verse in Habakkuk 2:2 "write the vision and make it plain on tablets." It's a good verse for the New Year... right your visions/goals/desires down!!