Merry Christmas, friends! 

Things have really started to sparkle with Christmas cheer here at the Dickerson residence. We've been listening to holiday tunes, watching our favorite festive movies, making Christmas dog treats, putting our tree up, and decorating our fireplace and hearth – I also added some firewood to make it look even cozier. Check me out, being all domestic! Bree Van de Kamp, look out.

She has come to tolerate the winter trooper hat. Last year she was not a fan of it. Hence the infamous 2013 Christmas photo. She has come to terms with it and has realized it protects her from the cold. Smart cookie. 

The glasses... well we are working on it. She couldn't help but dish out a couple of honest facial expressions throughout the session. The stink eye below just might be my favorite.

We love halloween, and it's here, it's here, it's finally here!

To celebrate I thought I would share Coco's pumpkin photos from last week. It has turned into our little family tradition and I couldn't love it more (check out last year's and the year before that).

This year was a little too muddy for the pumpkin patch, so we went to our favorite little garden shack and the photos turned out just magical! They didn't have the string lights like our old spot in Port Orange, but they had the most beautiful array of pastel pumpkins I've ever seen.

From ours to yours, Happy Howloween!

Last month we traveled to Capitola California to celebrate the marriage of one of my best friends and the love of her life (which was breathtakingly beautiful), celebrated our wedding anniversary, and also spent the day in San Fran for Tan's 29th birthday. T'was a celebration filled trip!

We rented the cutest little cabin on a horse ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains via Airbnb. It was filled with southwestern decor and the brick patio was garnished with two of the sweetest dogs – who might I add, were uber photogenic and almost got smuggled away in my suitcase. Bunch of love muffins! Needless to say the cabin was perfect in our book.

Here are a few of my favorite moments!

Today is Bean's favorite holiday, she's 7! I just wanted to give a quick birthday shout out to the best nugget around. I know I have been absent from the blog for a while, but I do have some fun fall posts coming up very soon. But for today, I shall party with my family of three as we celebrate our favorite shih tzu. 

I leave you with one of my favorite older photos of her, and a new one from last week. Gah, I love her! 

Since my last post we have had a pretty eventful summer. So far we have visited a blueberry orchard and picked 2 full gallons of berries, bought our very first condo, painted every room (no more pea green!), unpacked and slowly super slowly started to decorate, enjoyed many afternoons on our new balcony (It's Coco's new favorite thing), enjoyed a new morning walk routine, explored our new neighborhood, hit up the farmer's markets, met THE CUTEST baby goat (and didn't have a camera, booo.), visited family, celebrated the marriage of our two awesome friends, explored antique shops, found a new smoothie cafe and a natural foods store, DIY'd this, this, and this, designed some super secret + super gorgeous stuff for Pretty Fluffy, and 'favorited' a million things on etsy.

It's been fun, yet laid back, which is great mix for me! We still want to squeeze in a few more things before fall arrives. And we will be wrapping up the end of Summer with a trip to San Francisco + Capitola to celebrate my best friend Rachael's wedding. I cannot wait, it is going to be such a blast to reunite with my long lost DAAP girls! 

At the end of January we took a trip up to Charleston, SC for a relaxing birthday weekend. We strolled Battery Park, and admired all of the gorgeous homes and historic buildings. The architecture and southern trees of downtown stole my heart. White washed brick buildings, black shutters, green hedges and ivy, pastel flowers, brick walkways, white picket fences, and pets lounging in the front lawn - heavenly combinations. Tanner had his realtor app open on his phone our whole walk and every time we passed a home for sale we would look at the interior photos. What did we do before iPhones?

It was the perfect atmosphere and backdrop for Coco to model her new collar and lead from WOOF New York. If you haven't heard of them, you are missing out! They are the hot new brand to watch for in 2014. Their classic high quality leather is paired perfectly with brass metal finishes – another heavenly combination. Seriously, the brass is gorgeous. Coco wore her gold Park Avenue set as she walked the beautiful streets of Charleston, and she fit right in with all of the prettiness happening there. 

For more info on WOOF, check out our full review with lots of up close prettiness on Pretty Fluffy.

Charleston seemed to be very pet friendly in the downtown area. We met several new furry friends, one in particular captured Bean's attention. They got chummy right away, even though it appears that she is looking at him uneasily. She does that with all dogs - a little 12 lb Bean can't be too careful! I wish I could remember his name. I want to say it was an irish name like Hannigan or Finnigan. It was something charming either way. He was quite handsome, and photogenic.

Here are some more favorite photos from our trip, enjoy!

Above is my favorite house in all of Charleston, nestled back away from the street. Completely crushing on it. It's so welcoming and familiar. Want to hear something weird? I realized after our trip that I had in fact 'liked' this same house on pinterest a long time ago. Coincidence? Maybe. Twilight zone, do do do do do do do do.

The hubs and Bean, taking a break from our walk. Probably the prettiest stoop ever.