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Laguna Beach Date Night

Laguna Beach Date Night

Henri leaves for a two month job on January 15th and the countdown is officially on until his trip! After a pretty lazy and relaxing Christmas break I wanted to squeeze in a fun date night or two before he heads out. For one of 

Happy New Year, Here’s to 2016!!!

Happy New Year, Here’s to 2016!!!

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season, a very Merry Christmas and a fun New Years celebration last night. Our holidays were nice and low key – no traveling for us this year which was nice but I sure did 

Thanksgiving Weekend & Christmas Tree Shopping

Thanksgiving Weekend & Christmas Tree Shopping

Hi there! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and first “Christmas weekend”. Ours was busy in the best possible way! Thanksgiving morning Henri and I were up bright and early to meet his sister at the Plymouth Rock ‘n Roll Turkey Trot in Anaheim. The race started 

10 Things Tuesday

10 Things Tuesday

Hello there! Happy Tuesday – I hope your week is going well so far. Mine has been relaxing in the mornings and busy in the afternoons/evenings. That isn’t usually my normal speed but I’m starting to get used to it.  Grad school got pretty busy 

Coffee Date Catch Up

Coffee Date Catch Up

Well hello there! I feel like this blog has turned into my middle school diary in which nearly every entry would start with “sorry it’s been so long since the last time I wrote”. I promise I’ll get back on track soon but for now, 

Training Summary: 9/28/2015-10/4/2015

Training Summary: 9/28/2015-10/4/2015

Hi there! Hope you’re having a great Sunday so far! Mine has been busy in the best of ways – I was up at 5am to drive into LA for an 8K race (more on that later), grabbed coffee at my favorite shop, went to 

The Best News & A Denver Weekend

The Best News & A Denver Weekend

The BEST thing happened yesterday – two of my favorite folks got ENGAGED!! Court and I go wayyyy back to middle school XC and even ran Chicago together last year! I’m so excited for her and Matt and think I speak for everyone when I 

Training Summary: 9/21/2015-9/27/2015

Training Summary: 9/21/2015-9/27/2015

Hello from beautiful and warm Denver, CO! I’m enjoying my weekend with my sister and brother-in-law and can’t believe I’m heading back to Cali tonight!! I thought I’d pop in with a quick summary of my training this past week!  Enjoy the last little bit 

It’s Friday….

It’s Friday….

[Friday, Friday, Friday OH!!] …. and I can’t for the life of me get Rebecca Black out of my head! Talk about a Friday flashback!  Anyyyyyways – the reason I can’t help but be so excited for the weekend is that after practice tonight I’m 

Mile Repeats + I think we need a farm

Mile Repeats + I think we need a farm

Tuesday morning I woke up feeling like a million bucks – so after teaching bootcamp at the gym I headed to one of my favorite state parks to knock out some mile repeats! I had 4x 1 mile on the schedule so after a 2