I love family weddings. Family weddings means you have a group of people that essentially have to love and accept you while you go crazy on the dance floor. And there's nothing better than having your parents at the wedding to be the automatic designated driver (sorry parents that you STILL have to be the …

Continue reading Half Marathon #13 – Indiana (May 26, 2019)

(Editor's Note: WARNING: This may be the longest blog post I have ever written. There was just so much to talk about!! Feel free to jump around at your own discretion)  Baton Rouge is everyone’s second choice city in Louisiana. No matter how Baton Rouge tries, there is just no way for them to compete …

Continue reading Half Marathon #12 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana (January 20, 2019)

One of the best things about this crazy (stupid?) goal of running a half-marathon in every state is that it has encouraged (or peer-pressured...however you want to look at it) several of my friends/family to run their first half-marathon. For half-marathon #11, one of my childhood friends, Hayley, was the willing victim 🙂 Hayley and …

Continue reading Half Marathon #11 – Detroit, Michigan (October 21, 2018)

In 2015, my family and I (sans Andy...no ring = no invite 😂😂) spent almost two weeks in Honolulu visiting Luke and Leslie. It was a total blast (minus the sleeping on a pull-out couch for two weeks...after some point you really do miss an actual bed) and we did a ton of stuff. Actually, …

Continue reading Half Marathon #10 Part 3 – Honolulu, Hawaii (May 23-27, 2018)

I love cats. Not just your normal love, but the all-in, unconditional, borderline obsessive kind of love. I just can't help it. Cats are perfect in my eyes. They are cuddly without being too large. They are independent - I don't need to clean them, take them on walks or worry about leaving them alone …

Continue reading Half Marathon #10 Part 2 – Lanai, Hawaii (May 25, 2018)

There was a good year of my life that I seriously wondered where I went wrong. At the time, my brother was living in Hawaii, my sister was living in Puerto Rico and I was living five minutes away from my childhood home.   How does that happen?!? It's like they took a class called "how to live …

Continue reading Half Marathon #10 Part 1 – Kauai, Hawaii (May 19-22, 2018)

Do you know those people that find positivity in all aspects of life? No matter what happens to them they actively chose to take a positive perspective on events. The world could literally be following them around with a rain cloud and they’re like “well at least I am getting a shoulder workout from holding …

Continue reading Half Marathon #8 – Biloxi, Mississippi (December 10, 2017)