Browsing Tag: milestone

My BFF Got Married & My Maid of Honor Speech

My best friend Chelsea got married this past weekend. Saturday was full of love, happy tears and celebrating. Chels looked stunning and her new husband was quite handsome as well. We lucked out with beautiful weather—thankfully it didn’t start raining until the evening during the reception. Since I was the Married Maid (or Matron) of […]

Triathlon #2

Two weekends ago I competed in my second sprint triathlon—the Big Shark New Town Triathlon in St. Charles.  I did my first one last year during my 12 Races in 12 Months goal. The one I just completed is just short of  Olympic distance with a .62 mile open water lake swim, a 20 mile bike […]

Half Marathon #2: Sub 2 Hour Club

I ran the GO! St. Louis Half Marathon this past weekend, and joined the “Sub 2 Hour” club. I finished with a time of 1:58:12—13 minutes faster than my first half marathon last fall. My goal was to finish within 2 hours, so I was pleased to finish two minutes better. I ended up placing 137th […]

12 Races in 12 Months

Roughly a year ago, I made a goal to run one race every month for the next year. Well this past weekend marked the end of that year with my twelfth, and last race. Over the last year I ran six 5k’s, five 10k’s (one being my first trail race), and a sprint triathlon. I’ve […]

Happy 100th Post to Me!

I can hardly believe I have this many posts…whoa. I started the blog last October to not only help everyone back home keep up with what is going on in my life and how house progress is going, but also for me to document all of those things for myself. Almost like a virtual diary. […]

Nellie Turn 1 Today!

Our little Nellie is growing up so fast…it’s her 1st birthday today. We’ve only had her for just under 10 months, but neither Tim or I could imagine not having her around. Ferrah kitty, on the other hand, still doesn’t like the dog. Maybe once the dog calms down and grows out her puppy-hood then […]