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I'm Becca, a Marriage + Motherhood lifestyle blogger who loves Jesus, living colorfully, and being in the kitchen. The Mini Apartment Blog exists to inspire and encourage women who are entering the seasons of Marriage + Motherhood to live vibrantly, stay happy, and stay sane, as we all learn how to find magic in everyday moments.

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When mom really wants cute pumpkin patch photos but all the toddler wants to do is peel off all the price tag stickers, run around, and watch the sky for the Great Pumpkin.......😬🎃 Maybe next year! . We took izzy to the pumpkin patch FOUR times in the last two weeks, and our last trip we finally bought pumpkins 😅 We usually carve them with elaborate designs (John won first prize for his Star Wars-themed pumpkin carvings two years in a row at a pumpkin carving contest with our church LOL) but this year that sounded a bit ambitious! Does anyone else get really ambitious for Halloween then decide “ehhhh maybe that’s a bit too extra”? 🤣 Moms of toddlers, I know you hear me!

It’s time to share another one of my pumpkin-themed recipes from the blog — this week I’m featuring these HEALTHY pumpkin spice donut holes!! 🧡 The greatest thing about these donut holes is that they’re healthy (healthy donuts?! YES.) and a serving size is three donut holes, which is more than enough to satisfy your sweet tooth. When I published the recipe for these last October on the blog, they were a huge success with my friends and ig followers! And just like those pumpkin snickerdoodles, everyone who made this donut hole recipe for themselves was raving about how yummy they are! 🧡 So try these out at home, they don’t take long at all to make (10 mins prep, and 13 minutes to bake once in the oven) and I promise they’ll be a new fall favorite in your house for the holidays! Recipe link in my bio. 🧡🍩

ON THE BLOG TODAY: 5 super important things every married couple should talk about!! ✋🏻 __ Maybe your marriage is one where it's hard to bring up certain subjects, or maybe your marriage is one where you feel like you can talk about anything and everything. John and I have been on both ends of the spectrum, and thankfully we've worked hard to stay on the "talk about anything and everything" side! Learning how to be effective communicators will strengthen, sharpen, and deepen your relationship. Especially so after you've become parents! __ But getting on that level means embracing open-door communication. This means that you're allowing an "open-door policy" on every topic to become the norm in your marriage...specifically on 1) learning how to healthily talk about the hard things, 2) laughing together about silly things, 3) bouncing ideas off each other about your dreams and ambitions, 4) having a game plan for the critical things, and 5) being open and honest about how you're feeling in general. __ Head to the link in my bio to check it out and see which topics you need to start chatting about! Xo

We went to the pumpkin patch the other night! It was quality time well spent as a family - since my hubby works nights, his days off are sacred!! So we try to pack in as much fun things as we can on those days, checking things off our fall bucket list and counting down the days until Halloween as we go 😊 . I’m still deciding on this year’s Halloween costumes....I have a couple of (secret) family ones in mind, but also wondering if I should dress up with Izzy to match for some weekend-before-Halloween events. If you’re all about Halloween costumes, give me all the ideas on mommy daughter matching costumes in the comments below! . Also, how cute are these witch hats from @lulebloom?! Mine is clip in, and Izzy’s is on a stretchy headband 🎃🍂

FRIENDSHIP + VULNERABILITY // These go hand in hand. You can’t have a true blue solid friendship with another gal without being vulnerable with each other! 👯‍♀️ Today on the blog, I’m sharing a part of my friendship journey that is hard to talk about, but over the years has led me to a place where I finally found a deeply rooted community of girls who I trust, who know the real me, and who embrace and love me all the same. 👯‍♀️ “To be known AND loved” is the desire of many of our hearts as women who are longing for solid friendship. To have our flaws, our baggage, our victories, our struggles, and our hearts exposed can definitely create a sense of anxiety and self-doubt. I’ve totally been there. 👯‍♀️ But when we break down our walls, we can invite others in and say “You are welcome here. I see you, and I want to know more of you.” This is the ultimate obstacle to overcome when trying to build your community and create solid friendships! And I’m talking all about it/my experience with friendships + vulnerability today on the blog. 👯‍♀️ So if you’re wanting to become a better friend, if you’ve found yourself in a season of lost friendship, or if you want to deepen the friendships you already have - click the link in my bio for a quick read on why it’s OKAY to be vulnerable. Xo!

Last year in October, I made one recipe a week throughout the month that had pumpkin as the main ingredient and shared it on the blog. And I got soooo much great feedback about how yummy all the recipes were!! I’d love to share them again with all my new insta friends, so that you can bake all the things this month leading up to Halloween 🎃🍂✨ Above are my Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies, they’re super easy to make and SO FLUFFY! The recipe makes enough to share with girlfriends during a hocus pocus movie night (because let’s be real you’ve probably already got that set on your calendar for this month). They ended up being such a hit that I made them 2 more times throughout the month 😅 My husband couldn’t get enough of them either. . Head to the link in my bio for this recipe 😘 And if you end up baking these, I’d love to know how you liked them!! I’ll be sharing 3 more recipes that are inspired by pumpkins throughout the month so be on the lookout for those! Xo

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