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Pink Maternity Photo Session



July 27, 2022

Getting my maternity pictures taken with each baby has always been a highlight of the ending of a pregnancy for me. There’s just something really special about capturing those final days before you meet a piece of your heart. This session for our CC girl was done at Lemon Drop Studios and we just had a lot of fun! Studio sessions when it’s 110 degrees outside is WHERE IT’S AT. AC when this pregnant is just kinda necessary ha. I love this studio, it’s so beautiful and we got full access to all three sections (studio A and B + the outside greenhouse).

I have had quite a few Dms asking about my outfits from this shoot so I wanted to link all of it for you in one place! I knew I really wanted the elegant portrait style in the maternity body suit, but finding one with full coverage proved quite difficult. However, I found this one on Amazon and LOVE it. The first hat is my exact one, and then I linked a few other similar options!

The second look is the maternity photo look of my dreams! This maternity robe was a steal from Amazon and I found the blush nude body suit (full booty coverage again!) on Gap Factory for $12!!

This last one is so special, because it’s the dress I wore for my pregnancy announcement photos with Knox. Five years later and my last pregnancy, I wanted to bookend this season of carrying babies with the dress. It’s a Fillyboo dress that isn’t made anymore, but they sell a variety of similarly styled gowns.

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My Top N Sale Finds



July 8, 2022

Happy N Sale, y’all! This is up there at the top of my list as a favorite time of year… Don’t judge me haha. Find me sipping coffee with my AC on 67 and Gilmore Girls season 1 on the tv as I navigate the sale with you. It’s just the only proper way to do it. I actually have convinced Paul to finally intentionally watch GG with me for the first time, and he’s committed to an episode a night with me. God bless!

Alright so the sale: Here’s the deal. The N Sale, if you’re new here or just don’t know and see a thousand people talking about it, is a preview sale of the upcoming season’s new items. So it’s majorly discounted NEW items from top brands, not last season’s or anything like that! Trends I see: deep forest/mossy greens and dusty blues. This year, I am showing you my top picks only and items I already own! If you’re not shopping right now (ayyyyy, I am on a strict budget pre-baby and am not spending like I would usually this year!), then DO NOT DO IT. But, I do love to share a good sale, items I own and love, and helping you find great stuff that makes you feel on top of the world in your home, your job, and all the things!

Below are my favorite items in the entire sale. You’ll see noted the things I already have! I am most in love with the Sam Edelman booties, Ralph Lauren Jacket, and the GREEN Leather Belt Bag!

Things in my cart or I already own!

Free People Body Suit | Platform Converse (have!) | Pink Nikes | Hourglass Cheek Set (have!) | Chloe Perfume Set (have!) | Leather Belt Bag | Rose Skincare Setup (have toner!) | Madewell Straight Jean (have!) | Tan Bootie (favorite shoe in the sale!) | Quilted Ralph Lauren Jacket | Kid’s Airmax Sneaker | Toddler Cortez Sneaker

Head to my liketoknow.it for my favorites in the categories of clothing, shoes, and beauty!

CATEGORIES ~ Blog, Fashion

Summer Studio Mcgee Collection at Target



June 23, 2022

No secret here, my entire home inspiration can be summed up as “Shea Mcgee.” I love her modern transitional style mixed with traditional and pops of color in the right spots. And as I have gone through approximately 100 different styles over the last 10+ years, I feel like I am really in my own skin errr should I say throw pillows? The Target x Studio Mcgee line is my dream come true with it’s impeccable style at realistic price points. We have a dozen or more pieces in our home from this line, and I can say the quality is really fantastic.

Below is a round-up of my favorite pieces from their latest collection! These sadly sell out by the majority usually in a day or two, but what’s great is you can preview the collection and be ready on the 26th. The BEST part is that you can favorite these items in my LTK shop [HERE!] and easily come back to it for a quick checkout, whereas online you can’t even preemptively add to cart currently. This is the best way to be ready for a collection like this!

A Few Notable Pieces

Crystal Cove TV Stand: We have the side tables of this line in our master bedroom and I love them. They don’t feel at all cheap and are such a lovely standout piece. This TV stand would be awesome as a true TV stand or a dining room feature piece with your favorite dishes.

Gallery Wall Black Metal Frame: This is a more affordable version (half the cost!) of my black metal gallery wall in the dining room, which tends to be a most asked about item every month when I show them at all in stories or background of a photo.

Elden Wood Bench: Just last weekend my mom and I went shopping, and a bench at Pottery Barn looked identical to this one that we both stopped to look at. It was $1000 more! I would put at the end of my bed for a cozy addition to our master!

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What’s On My Registry For Baby #3



June 16, 2022

I cannot believe it, but here we are… about two months out from baby girl CC and I am so excited! However, not anywhere near ready haha. As my third born and first girl, we are having to start over in a lot of ways. We either have to replace because it’s 5 years old now OR need girl clothes and can’t recycle very much of the boys’ things. I still stand by our Baby Jogger and will be using it! And our infant carseat is still within use years for her, so we are set for that from our travel system. We’ve had our City Lux stroller since Knox, and I love it so much. With two, we added the second seat on the front! We have two of this stroller simply because I worked with Baby Jogger a couple years ago and we ended up getting gifted their newest version of City Lux, but our original from 2017 has held up just as well! WE also will be doing the Snoo rental again because it worked wonders for us with Rory!

You’ll find I am just about the most minimal mom on the planet, and I don’t do a whole lot of extra or frivolous stuff. I believe in a quality crib, quality glass bottles, and approximately 1 trillion onesies. I don’t do bottle or wipe warmers or even a diaper trashcan because the one in your kitchen does just fine. Below is girly’s room and the things I am registered for!

I will be painting CC’s trim and doors Bubble Shell by Behr and her ceiling/bathroom ceiling Pink Elephant. The hope is to do an accent wall with her crib with that beautiful Loveshackfancy wallpaper!

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26 week pregnancy update



May 31, 2022

Wow, you guys… can you even believe I am entering into my third trimester? I feel this pregnancy has flown by in so many ways, and I just feel so excited. I cant wait for labor! I laid in my bed with tears last night just telling Paul I can’t believe we are ACTUALLY getting this baby and we will actually hold her. I think majority of this pregnancy has been exactly that, having to remember this isn’t a dream and it’s really happening. Pregnancy and life after a miscarriage is wildly unexpected and grief-filled. I can feel out of body at times and my recovery has been filled with a variety of emotions from anger, anxiety, and grief mingled together with joy and giddiness for the baby growing healthy in my belly. I touched on this a bit once in my stories in just a Q&A with y’all, and it seems there are quite a few of us in this community who could benefit from talking a little about it.

How am I doing?

While I haven’t yet shared a ton of detail about my delivery of Blakely and then my triggers after loss, I have known I wanted to at some point but haven’t felt quite ready. In fact, some of it feels incredibly scary to share while others are embarrassing. Trauma can make you do crazy things, and in the months directly following the birth and loss of Blakely, I found myself doing things I couldn’t believe were happening. It also all felt so confusing to be experiencing so much anxiety and grief alongside the joy of being pregnant again. To put it in short, I feel so happy right now. I am so thrilled and excited to have CC and I weep every time I envision holding her for the first time after delivery. Since making it to about 25 weeks, I have felt such a relief. I didn’t even realize what a daily pressure I felt from anxiety until it was released, and I can’t believe how much freer I feel. I am praying for another successful VBAC like I had with Rory and, as always, plan to labor from home for as long as possible. I labored to 6cm with Rory from our home and Paul actually had to convince me I was actually in labor because I wasn’t convinced… haha. So all this to say in regard to CC, I am so excited and I cannot wait. Making it to viable weeks changed things drastically for me mentally.

PTSD & Triggers

Okay, so the tougher stuff… but I want to share because of the amount of you who asked me to. So many of us have walked this journey of loss. And if sharing my experiences helps you navigate your own, I am happy to. I feel like I am in a place I can now. Brief background, Blakely was a surprise pregnancy. Like… MAJOR surprise. I found out I had a severe hematoma over my cervix while in Alabama at 12 weeks pregnant for a conference with our church planting network, ARC. I bled heavily after feeling sick and uncomfortable all day and we rushed to the hospital. This is how we found out so early we were having our long awaited and prayed for, Blakely Amelia.

We got home to my doctor and she confirmed everything the hospital in Alabama told me, and I began fighting for my baby. I was on bed rest and was seemingly doing great. I think trigger #1 for me in my current pregnancy is that with Blakely, aside from my first big bleed… I was seemingly doing great and things were getting better… until they weren’t. I stopped bleeding and felt good. Out of fear that I would feel tricked again if a loss did happen, I have felt incredibly emotionally guarded with this pregnancy up until really this week. I feel for the first time in the last week or so, “Wow, I think this is actually going to happen and I am actually going to have this baby.” … I am almost 27 weeks.

After losing Blakely, one of my first very traumatic experiences that I have felt so embarrassed to share was starting my first cycle post loss. I actually convinced myself I was losing another baby and dug through the toilet for them. This is incredibly difficult for me to share. But trauma has zero logic and I have processed this with counseling and friends, so I feel ok to share now. I literally wept digging through the toilet trying to find the pieces of my baby I convinced myself I must have just lost.

The amount of times I have ran to the bathroom, particularly the first trimester, is numerous. From when I bled in Alabama in public for the first time to the incredibly traumatic way I delivered Blakely in the middle of a hallway at L&D, I constantly needed to make sure I wasn’t bleeding or worse. I had phantom deliveries where I could feel the same sensation of delivering Blakely.

One time, Knox and I were making strawberry popsicles less than a month after I lost Blakely. We had these popsicle molds that were little bunnies and cowboys. I almost passed out and puked when I pulled them out of their molds, because it was unreal how much the mold looked like the dead baby I had held weeks before. Size, color, everything. It was too much to handle and I couldn’t believe a popsicle triggered me. I said it before and I will again, I have always believed life [whether planned or not] within the womb is life. And now, I believe it more than ever. Blakely wasn’t a life because I wanted her to be, she was a life because she had full hands, legs, a heartbeat, a face, and eyes at just 13.5 weeks and I held that life in my hands for hours.

Twice this pregnancy I have been to large gatherings for ARC. Early on at 6 weeks pregnant and then again for conference in Charleston last month. Both times I came on the verge of a panic attack and actually almost walked out of the auditorium. I had to force myself to think logically and breathe, remembering my baby is healthy and safe, and it wasn’t being at an ARC conference that killed Blakely.

Grief is nuts. In addition to trauma like the scenarios above, I also experienced depression and anxiety. Both of which I presume to be expected in some capacity after loss. I began having intrusive thoughts again like I had postpartum with Knox when I was diagnosed with PP OCD/Anxiety. I couldn’t sleep at night because I was convinced my sons would die. In the immediate months following my loss, I also had incredibly heartbreaking relationship losses in my family over differences of faith and medical decisions. I was so blindsided and hurt. The timing felt cruel. I got to a point so low I started wondering if everybody was going to die or leave me. Again… this is so vulnerable for me to share. As a pastor’s wife and leader of our church, I have felt so afraid to share these things from fear it could discredit me. You know what I mean? Like, why would people want to hear me talk about Jesus if I was struggling so much. BUT, truth is, Jesus is LITERALLY the only reason I can write today about this and say I made it. Not once in my heartache last fall or over the last year did I question my faith. It was my faith that kept me grounded.

When I found out I was pregnant again, I was a mess. I felt everything I have felt in my prior 3 first trimesters significantly more. I was hyper aware of everything and was afraid I had multiple conditions that would lead to loss. I hated my first trimester because I literally couldn’t enjoy it. We also had to navigate another pregnancy with Knox and he kept saying this baby wouldn’t go to heaven like the last one. We welcomed questions about Blakely and still get them. It was very difficult to speak positively about this pregnancy to Knox when I, myself, was so afraid. But, we have taught Knox through loss and this life currently growing in my tummy that God makes us and knows how long we will live before we are even born. We have explained that Blakely just wasn’t going to make it to this side of my tummy, and while that makes us sad and angry, God knew what we needed and her life was perfect even though it wasn’t what we wanted. You would be amazed what kids are able to hear and process even at just 4 years old. His profound understanding of Heaven and God through this is mind blowing.

When I found out at 10 weeks I had another hematoma with my current pregnancy, I had a major breakdown. I was angry and I yelled at God through gut wrenching groans the entire way home. I had to do weekly checkins for the next 3 weeks to see if my hematoma was shrinking or growing, and mustering up the courage to lay on the bed again for a sonogram each time was painful and felt like reliving trauma every single time. The day we found out my hematoma was gone was the best day and I felt hope for the first time in 10 weeks that this pregnancy might just work.

Friend, if you are walking the journey of pregnancy loss and/or pregnancy after miscarriage, please hear me loud and clear: Whatever you’re feeling, it’s valid. I don’t think there is anything somebody can say to you to prepare you for grief like this. But, I think what is most encouraging is to just know you’re not alone. And, that the things you may be facing are quite normal. However, no matter how normal, don’t do it alone. Find counsel, find best friends to share with, and do not process this internally alone. Miscarriage is incredibly isolating as it is, and the trauma can only further isolate you if you’re not careful. Miscarriage makes you feel alone and like nobody understands the grief you feel, because you are the only person in the world who knew that baby you’re grieving. You’re the only person who had a connection to them as they lived inside of you. I always wondered why women who spoke of their miscarriages used the word “lonely” but I get it now. It is incredibly lonely, because while others around you grieve the dream of the baby you were carrying… you truly felt and knew that baby within you in a way not a single other person could.

From the moment I got a positive test, I choose to approach this pregnancy day by day. I wake up and thank God for another day to carry this baby, regardless of if they will make it outside of my belly. I honor them, their life, and the connection we have for as long as I get to have it. That is how I have made it 26 weeks, and I hope that encourages any of you navigating a rainbow pregnancy after loss. Every day is a gift, so as much as you can, treat it as such.

You are loved and you are not alone. If you know somebody walking the journey of grief and pregnancy after loss, please share this with them. There is such hope and encouragement in knowing other people’s stories of grief and redemption.

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Hey, I am Hannah!

Hey,  I am Hannah!
I am Hannah Morrison. Mommy of two boys with a daughter on the way, and an angel girl in heaven. I believe joy is found in your own home under your own roof, and I am just here to help you find it. Marriage, motherhood, fashion, and faith are what I am all about and I am so glad you're here!

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