After 2,737 days of waiting, praying, crying and anticipating we are finally pregnant with our miracle. If this is in any way a trigger for you, I would advise to skip this post. I will not hold any hard feelings. I am sharing because this blog has been about our journey with trying to get …
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
In the pregnancy and infant loss community there’s a quote most often used by Ronald Regan that says: When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, there isn’t a word to describe …
Disneyland Half Marathon Race Recap
This is my Disneyland half marathon race recap… It was the Saturday before the Disneyland half marathon, and I got a text from a friend that lives in Vegas asking if I wanted to come run the Disneyland half marathon with them. Chase encouraged me to go and said it would be good to get …
Memorial Day 5k/10k/1 mile Race Recap 2016
I ran this race last year and aside from the massive hills I loved it! I was hoping with more training, it wasn’t going to be too bad this year. Then I got an email from the race directors who said they changed courses and it will be fast and flat! Woo Woo! So I …
Reflecting on Mother’s Day
This year I am reflecting on my own mother and other strong women for Mother’s Day. I love listening to podcasts. I happened to be listening to one that helped me reflect on my own mother and the example that she’s given me. I’m the oldest of 3 in my family, and my parents got …
Trials, and why Infertility happen to me?
Growing up I always thought if something bad happened to me I had done something wrong in my life. I did all the things required as a good christian: What I’ve learned since is that bad things still happen to good people, that’s just life. We all are given trials. When Chase and I were …
Race Recap of the Dopey Challenge: Mickey Marathon
Race Recap of the Dopey Challenge: Mickey Marathon Okay, Okay, Okay – you are going to get picture overload today for this recap (I think 71 total) and #idontevencare Like all the other days we got up at the same time, and were out the door by like 3:30-3:45ish. Dan and his wife weren’t going …
Dopey Challenge The Pluto 5k
Sharing my experience of the Dopey Challenge The Pluto 5k. Updated 3/26/2026. We picked up race packets on Wednesday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex located on Disney property. We had 2 sets of bibs, 1 for the 5k and 10k and the 2nd for the half and full marathon. You could tell …
Infertility and Self Preservation
what does it mean to go through infertility and self preservation? I’ll explain that in this post, if you’ve been feeling the same. I asked this question to a Facebook Infertility Group: “For the past few years, I don’t have that burning desire to become a mom. Like it’s nowhere to be found in my …
Finding Faith in this Microblog Monday
The past few weeks I have been pondering finding faith for an upcoming lesson that I’m giving in my church. The title of my lesson is; Having Faith in Christ During Trials. After a few years of struggling with getting pregnant I struggled with faith, and I felt like it had completely gone. Same with …