Isaac Turns 1!!

The biggest blessing of moving to Goldsboro is meeting and becoming friends with the Hutchison's. They have been a true bright spot of living in my not-so-favorite place. I met Kim when she was 6 months pregnant and we became friends pretty much instantly. I was able to visit her in the hospital the day she had Isaac and have spent a lot of time watching him grow. So even though we were completely exhausted from the 3 weekends of travel before, we couldn't miss his first birthday party in Virginia Beach, VA.

Here's me and the birthday boy!

 The Hutchison Family!

My Best Friend's Wedding

Having your best friend get married is so much fun! I'm grateful for everything I was able to be there for, but still sad of all the things I missed. I flew in on Wednesday so I could have a night with my BF and still prepare for the big weekend.

Wednesday night we just relaxed and helped make the final changes on the wedding slide show.

Thursday we got to go the Panera (one of my midwest favorite places to eat), then Christine (another bridesmaid) and I set out to get all ready for the Bachelorette party!!! It was a really fun night!!

Me and the Bride!

 All of the girls!

Rach sharing the wealth at the bars

That night was followed by a day of recovery, seeing my husband and parents, the rehearsal, and the rehearsal dinner. Then we got a good nights rest before the big day!!

The beautiful bride with her beautiful dress, her beautiful sash, her beautiful hair, her beautiful veil...it was a beautiful day!

The Co-MOH's sharing some champagne on the party bus!

I can't even put into words how beautiful the entire day/weekend was from the ceremony to the weather to the reception. I was so honored to be there for my best friend and stand by her the day she became Mrs. Bessert!!! Congrats Rachel and Steve!!!

The First of a Few Posts

This last month has been a whirl wind. We go in spurts of having nothing going on on the weekends to have multiple non stop weekends in a row. The last post I left off with how I surprised my best friend for her bridal shower and got to see my Grandma's. That again was a great weekend. I wish I had gotten a picture with Rach, but we were too busy celebrating her wedding festivities...she is officially Mrs. Bessert now, but that requires it's own blog post!

The weekend after that we had our long anticipated half marathon. With me traveling home the weekend before that and drinking lots of wine  we did not prepare as well as we should have, but some things in life are more important than running a fast race.

We started out our weekend by driving to Wilmington and going out for our "last meal" before the race. We chose to not drink alcohol for the week before the race (most serious runners give that up for much longer), but we were out at a new restaurant that had a really delicious drink menu and one of their sangria's even claimed to be good for you because it used acai berry....enough said, we each allowed ourselves 1 drink. There was a band playing in the parking lot, so we stayed and listened to that, it was super fun and not something you see everyday.

Then we went to bed early for our 5am wake up call and headed down to the start line. We really didn't need to get there as early as we did, so we had some time to take pictures:

On the ferry ride over to the Battleship for the start

 With downtown Wilmington in the background

And this run was completely brutal, we didn't prepare well enough, we weren't in shape enough for it to feel good, but we finished in our goal time (under 3 hours)!!

We were extremely proud of ourselves for finishing, but I can speak for both of us when I say, that was our first and last half marathon. We will probably do some 5k's and 10k's in the future, but that's the extent of it.

All in all, it was a bucket list item and we crossed it off the list!!!