I love to Run! My husband and I made a lifetime goal to run a marathon in all 50 states! We've completed Hawaii and Ohio so far. The marathon tab is where you can see our progress. My favorite place to be is soaking up the sun at the beach! I love warm weather and surfing! I have 2 pretty awesome mutts named Nick and Lucky.
A random fact about me is that I love to organize! Though my house isn't the cleanest and I can be quite messy at times....one of my hidden passions is organizing! I have all these ideas running through my head on ways to simplify and create more space around the house with different storage solutions and cleaning every nook and cranny. That's why i have the projects tab to show before/after pics of things i would like to accomplish around the home. I'm hoping this blog may help inspire me to get some things done on my list!
I am a proud mama to a beautiful, active baby boy named Cory. I'm a stay-at-home Mom and am thoroughly enjoying my days home with him and I feel so blessed to be able to see his sweet smile all day:)
I was in the Army 4 years after graduating college at WKU in 06'. Though at times it was a whirlwind experience and chaotic between moving to Hawaii, deploying twice to Iraq, traveling to all the training events, jumping out of planes, etc.....I would'nt trade that experience which really opened my eyes to all different people and different parts of the world!
It also helped me to not take forgranted the important things in life like my faith in God, my loving family, helping others along the way, and to not sweat the small stuff. It helped me better appreciate the simple life and to realize no matter how big of a deal something may seem at the time, it really may not be if you look at the big picture and how short our time really is. Sometimes when things get you down, you just gotta grin and bear it:)
I really appreciate those who do choose to stay in the Army and sacrifice so much time away from home and their families, but I realized it was my time to get out when all I would do is dream about moving back to KY, settling down close to family, buying a home and expanding our own little family. (Me at 32 weeks)
After I got out in May 2010, we moved into our first home on Sept 6th and Cory came into the world 3 days later on Sept 9th. He has brought us far greater joy than we could have ever imagined and we have been enjoying this fun but challenging journey into parenthood ever since.
Being a stay-at-home Mom isn't always easy (in fact there are days when I think the Army was an easier job:), but it certainly is the most rewarding and I'm paid with lots of hugs, kisses, and snuggle time throughout the days! It's also helped me to learn a lot more about budgeting, being more frugal, couponing which now I love, and just seeing that you can live on less and be happier than ever. Money just buys things and those things are replaceable and can be taken away in an instant but time is invaluable and can never be replaced so my motto is "do what makes you happy and fulfilled in life!" :)
What are my Future plans?
Well they change a lot but I have different things I can envision myself doing....some being more out of reach than others but here are a few things that would be totally awesome jobs in my opinion. For now being home with my little buddy is number one, but I will eventually narrow it down to which one I most want to do down the road:
- A Professoinal runner or triathlete (hey a girl can dream right)!
- Start up my own specialized running store in La Grange, KY
- Personal Trainer or Physical Therapist
- Start up a professional organization business with my sister, Jennifer
- Be a professional photographer
- Elementary P.E Teacher (I guess I could do what my degree is in :)
- Work from home with my own Daycare or some kind of home-based business
- Work at a animal shelter
- Be a firefighter
- Distribution Manager (or something to do with supply and demand like my job in the Army)
So I guess you can tell I love kids, animals, running, working out, organizing, and photography:) I recently bought my first DSLR camera and love it. I have always loved taking pictures and capturing all the special moments and memories. And I love snapping shots of my favorite subject....Cory! I think he had several thousand photos saved by the time he hit 1-year old.
I started this blog MAR 2012 to basically keep me accountable to reach my goals, to have an online scrapbook to keep track of events and things to remember, and it is a good way to share what's been going on with family and friends since i have been so bad at keeping in touch! I love scrapbooking but started a 1-year scrapbook for Cory and am only on month 4 (he's 18 months now) so maybe this will be a little easier to keep up with. 
Last, but not least, I am very thankful I met my best friend and amazing husband John the first week of college running on the track in Aug 01'! It was like we were destined to be right from the start! 
He thought of the title of this blog which was the title of a love story artical we were featured in from the WKU alumni magazine. He surprised me by submitting our story of how we met at WKU and ours was one of the 6 chosen from hundreds...how sweet of him to submit our story! Nothing would be as easy in without my other half, he is always there for me and encourages me to follow my dreams, which he has already made many of them come true! :)
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