Midwest Girl

And we have definitely had more than our fair share of showers lately. Seriously its mid May no more rain please, I am begging. I miss the d...

Monday we had a Townhall for work. One of those forced events intended to get you excited about your organization and the mission. There was...

The week was a whirlwind. It started out innocent enough but once Wednesday Happy Hour hit it was all downhill from there! We had a really f...

for an attorney confrence. Lots of goverment attorneys all gathering togehter - doesn't get much more exciting than that Especially sinc...

I did it! I finished my first half marathon and I loved it. My finish time was 2:04:48. I was 2089 out of 4808 and 170 out of 529 for my age...

I received my official number for Ragbrai (you had to enter through a lottery). I am riding the Council Bluffs to Red Oak leg of the week lo...

Thanks to the wonders of Facebook an extra race number/chip has been found and Justin is in the race on Sunday with us. Yay. On a side note ...

My original goal was just to finish. As when I first signed up running 13.1 miles seemed ridiculous. As I realized I could accomplish I set ...

Used to look like this…. Dirty dingy wallpaper, yellowy woodwork (the cabinets were the same until I painted), a fridge that sticks out in...