New Years Resolutions

(pictured above: 35 weeks pregnant, Bry and I in formal wear, Election 2012, a Breaking Bad Halloween, Heidelberg, work work work)

2012 was quite the year. It was busy with work per usual. We bought our first house and moved in in February. I got to travel to Germany, New Orleans and Chicago. Bryan found out he was chosen to be chief resident next year (so proud ;). And oh yeah, we found out in May that we were expecting our first baby.

Soon after that big news I set out to start a new blog in the hopes that I would begin to better document all the exciting things going out in our lives. So this year the only New Years Resolution I am making is to work on this space here. I resolve to take more pictures, better document all the big and small moments of 2013, and share all of this with our friends and family.

I'm also planning to participate in a 52 portrait a week project. Jodi over at Che & Fidel took a picture of each of her children each week, every week of last year. She ended the year with such a beautiful collection of photos and even more a stunning document of just how much her kids grew in the past year. I'm hoping I can challenge myself to complete a full year and really look forward to the end product. I'll be posting weekly photos each Sunday, starting this week.

So I'm pretty sure it's going to be a big year. Bring it on 2013.

one year

it's a little surreal to realize that we've been married now for a whole year! even though we were together for seven years before we tied the knot, it has been a great, albeit busy year of matrimony. so much has happened (new house, big career moves, and now a baby on the way) that i can't even imagine all that year two can bring.

even after all of the planning and small stresses of putting the wedding together, we had such a wonderful day and it felt great to be surrounded by so much love and support. so here's to one great year and whole lifetime of more to come ;)

all images courtesy of our amazing photographers Sanderson Images

well hello there

and welcome!

we are jess (formerly of oh.just.jess, the blog and etsy shop) and bryan (the artist formerly known as Frenchy) and this is our little space on the internet to document our lives and make sure we can remember all our little and big adventures.

what you need to know:
- we live in south philly in a house we bought last February and we are slowly trying to make a home.
- we are both giant nerds. bryan's a physician and jess is a molecular biologist. (please dont run away too quickly)
- we're expanding our little family this winter
(with a human being! we already have an awesomely neurotic cat named Clea).
- we love to eat good food and travel as much as our schedules/bank accounts will allow so expect a lot of that on here.