I posted a picture last week of this guy (for those of who you don’t know me, that’s my hilarious & hot boyfriend): Normally not a big deal, but what most people don’t know is that he just returned from a 6 month deployment to the Middle East. Sometimes deployments are portrayed as something of […]

On September 11, 2001, I was 11 years old. My mom woke us up for school and shuffled us around, all while trying to not have to explain too much about planes being commandeered and crashed into the Twin Towers. To a 11 year old, this was incomprehensible. 9/11 changed my life. I remember watching […]

I’ve mentioned the field behind where we live once or twice, right? It’s gorgeous at sunset, and gorgeous when it snows. Sometimes our sunsets are pretty boring in the winter, but occasionally there will be one that will make you pull over and gape. This happened to me a few weeks ago, and I quickly […]

After Christmas, we got hit with a mini ice storm. It was kind of a pain the day that it happened, but the day after? OHMYGOSH. It was stunning to drive around. The sun sparkled through the trees like they were made of diamonds; the fields shone in the sun. The pine needles dripped with […]