Let’s continue our walk down memory lane with today’s post where I’m showing you all of the photos I have (either on Facebook, the blog, or my phone) during the different Marches of my life (March being the month, not the activity). So far, I’ve shown you July, February, and May.
March 2011
My graduation photoshoot! I graduated college in May 2011 and a school friend who was trying to start a photography business offered to take professional photos of me. I loved this photoshoot and it’s so sweet to have these photos to look back on.
March 2012
My heart! This is one of my all-time favorite photos of my mom and my older nephew. He was only three-and-a-half years old here and helping my mom make chocolate chip cookies. Isn’t his smile the cutest? It gets me every time!
March 2013
I have no photos!
March 2014
This collage makes me smile so big because look who makes an appearance! Lisa and I met for the first time in March 2014 when she was in town. We met at Starbucks and had the best time chatting away. This month, I also did Run or Dye, which was a 5K where people threw different-colored dye on you as you ran through the course. It was really fun, even though I remember that it took a while to get all of the dye out of my hair, ha. And here’s a cute photo of my Dutchy-Boy. I miss you, buddy.
March 2015
My mom and I traveled to Savannah in March 2015 so we could participate in a 5K. Mostly, I just wanted an excuse to go back to Savannah. I hated the 5K because I hate running. I kept thinking to myself, “Two more miles and you never have to run again!” “Half a mile and you never have to run again!” Muahaha. It wasn’t my last race (I’ve done walking 5Ks since then) but I did finally give myself permission to stop trying to become a runner!
March 2016
In March 2016, I went on a really fun four-day cruise with Bri, my mom, and my stepdad. Bri and I really had the best time together and I loved our excursion in Mexico where we got to snorkel and sail on a catamaran. I also love the video I got of Bri doing the macarena in front of the whole group, ha!
March 2017
How about some cute photos of Dutch? This month, he turned 15 years old and while he would steadily decline over the year (he died the next February), it was such an honor to be his person and his safe space when he was feeling crummy. <3
March 2018
A month after my soul-dog passed away and it was a hard one. I dog-sat for two adorable beagles, which soothed my soul. I also got a cute haircut and Dutch’s pawprint in the mail.
March 2019
March 2019 was a great one! My friend Lynn threw a pool party at her house, I was on my first full month of being a cat mom of two, and I met Taylor Jenkins Reid at a book signing in Tampa!
March 2020
There were so many photos I could choose to represent March 2020 and I went with this one. My mom and I went to a pet portrait event at this art studio (that sadly did not survive the pandemic and it breaks my heart!) right before the world shut down and I am so glad we were able to fit in one last social outing. Also, can we talk about my hair in this photo? BANGIN’.
March 2021
What a mix of photographs! I got a spin bike, had a book club picnic (we got close for this photo but otherwise stayed on our own blankets!), and met a two-day-old puppy who would become my little Lucy. Look at how SMOL!
March 2022
I got a new desk chair and the girls were all about it! Sometimes they let me use it. 😉 And I took this photo of my mom and me at The Library for brunch. We were celebrating because the lump she found on her chest a week ago turned out to be a cyst that wasn’t anything to worry about. Whew!
March 2023
My friend Amber and I did a fun knife skills class together at Sur La Table. I learned a lot but I definitely freaked out the instructor when I used the hand holding the chef’s knife to scratch an itch on my forehead. Whoopsie!
March 2024
Look at these cuties! My mom made her podcast debut this time last year and it was so much fun to have her on the podcast to talk about motherhood, her personality, and what a delight it has been to parent an angel like me. (Her words, definitely not mine.)
March 2025
And then there’s this month. A girls’ weekend in Orlando where I got to love on some really cute pets, visit two bookstores, and leave the trip with five more books than I started with.
What’s a photo you would have chosen to represent March 2020?
O.M.G. TWO DAY OLD LUCY!!! That is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Not to be outdone- the cats are looking very beautiful in the photo from March 2019 (well, all photos of course, but I love how they’re sitting together like that.)
I love this idea. And I love seeing your hairstyles through the years. If I picked a photo from 2020, it would definitely be of Muffin- we adopted her as a kitten in July of 2020. Oh and you’ve definitely convinced me that running is not your thing, lol.
I love that photo of them sitting together on the barstool! They were much better about cuddling together like that in their earlier days of sisterhood. 😉
MUFFIN! She’s a pandemic kitty. I love that!
What a blast from the past to see that photo of us! I vividly remember that meet up! I was on my way from Venice, FL to Orlando for a work conference!
We are doing an excursion in Mexico that sounds similar to what you did – we are taking a Catamaran from Cancun to Isla Mujeres and will snorkel along the way. We haven’t done excursions in the past since our trips to Mexico are usually only 4 nights so it’s tough to give up a full day to an excursion but we decided to switch things up and do something different this time. I’m really excited to snorkel.
Gosh. March 2020. I’d probably share a picture of Paul watching Little Baby Bum. He was home for 7 weeks at the start of the pandemic and watched so many hours of that show! He called it “B Bum.” Or I could share a photo of the positive pregnancy test at the end of the month. We had a hard time getting pregnant with Taco and had to have a bit of intervention to ensure that I ovulated. When the test was positive Phil was like: of course you’re pregnant now that we are in a global pandemic.
I was so excited when I saw that photo of us! I remember it so well, too. It was such a great time!
Oh, pandemic baby! What an experience to be pregnant in the middle of a global pandemic. That’s wild!
Just went down the memory lane…
On March 1st, 2020, I took a picture of my son Rainn, at 2 months old, in the supermarket, him in his car seat, in the shopping cart, and around him are all the groceries: cheese sticks, oatmeal, bread, spinach. He is literally surrounded by food lol while napping. Ah, those months were so rough… but I remember them with kind of fondness.
Aww, that’s a cute visual of baby Rainn surrounded by food. And a good memory of the time before. I remember how dystopian the empty grocery shelves felt a few weeks later!
This is such a fun thing, Stephany. I love seeing all your photos from Marches past! I don’t know what my photo would be from 2020, probably just me on some long walk.
Those long walks are what got us through, weren’t they? I remember walking on a Saturday afternoon and seeing the parking lot of my apartment complex FILLED with cars. It was so weird because yes, everyone was stuck at home. We couldn’t go out and do fun things!
What a fun look at your Marches past! (What a fun title for your post!) I LOVE your March 2020 photo and I’m so sad the art studio couldn’t make it through the pandemic. My March 2020 photo is me sitting at my sewing machine sewing face masks for our local nursing home. Such scary times. I also love your March 2025 – what a fun girls’ trip!
I am so sad about that art studio. It held a lot of great memories for me!
I love that you sewed face masks for your local nursing home. What a beautiful way to give back!
I love the March look back! And I see your Library brunch with your mom!!! That is the nicest way I know to celebrate a clean bill of health. You met TJR!!!!!!!!!
My March 2020 photo would be the last “normal” pic. It was the first week of March, and I got to work and it was snowing, and I took a selfie that has the office building in the background and shows the snow sticking to my hair to send to my husband. Little did I know that my office days were numbered (aka the best thing that happened to me in my career).
I thought of you when I saw that photo of my mom and me at The Library. Best brunch spot!
Listen, the pandemic sucked for a lot of reasons but being able to be a full-time remote worker isn’t one of them.
How fun to look back at the Marches of Years Past… I love seeing how your hair style and color changed over time. I am so not adventurous when it comes to my hair LOL you were definitely rocking the side banks!
So many hairstyle changes! This is what I’ve learned most from this photo project – I change my hair so much!
Oh I love these throwbacks to your life. It is such a fun concept. I bet it is even more fun to go back and relive all the memories.
I am not sure which photo I would choose for march 2020. Maybe the one two days before shut down when I was on a. business trip and was already only breezing throw my scarf in the train.
It’s really fun to relive all of these memories with this photo project. And to see all my different hairstyles through the years, lol.
How funny, without seeing this, I did pretty much the same thing on my post today! I love seeing your get Stephany and little Lucy! How fun. Also I remember a lot of those things, like when you did the color run, which shows how long it’s been since we have known each other!
We are TWINNING! Although your life is 1000x more exciting than mine, haha.
Oh, that’s so crazy that you remember the Color Run! That was such a fun (if messy) event.
WAITWAITWAIT. How have I been reading your blog for nearly SIX YEARS now? This is not possible. But I distinctly remember when you brought each of the girls home! Wow. I had no idea I’ve “known” you for that long!
LOVE the look-back, and I’m with San – you are rocking the hairstyle changes. And you always look amazing! I look back at some of my recent hair, um, “choices” and I’m kind of appalled, LOL.