the journal

Been dating Ricardo for like a year and this past week I finally got the chance to visit his hometown and meet his family and friends! It was awesome. All of it. I didn’t take too many pictures on my camera of our time there (I have a grand total of two–not gonna lie I’m pretty impressed with […]

Here’s some pictures of when Josiah and Sami and Ricardo were all visiting and we went to Taste of Chicago in Millenium Park on a rainy, gloomy day. Taste of Chicago is basically a big food festival downtown (free admission too, hooray) where different foods from all over Chicago are showcased in booths–a crazy, ridiculously […]

So much fun showing the Royles around Chicago and having them stay with us a for a few days! thanks for making the trip out to see us 🙂

Drove down to Kansas City with my family and got to see my brother Anthony and sister-in-law, Melissa’s new hometown! So much fun to see their first house, their new church, their favorite restaurants, and favorite hangout spots. Melissa and Anthony, I wish you two the best on your new life in your new city. You […]

  

         

This week was a week of surprise and adventure and explorations! Ricardo came from San Diego to Chicago and surprised me by showing up at my door at 10 PM (when I thought he was just getting home from playing disc golf with friends in San Diego. Nicely done, Ricardo). And then a few days […]

Nothing says “summer” like a nice day and picnics in the park. The castle is a bonus.

Finally…a 70 degree/SUNNY day!! And we celebrated by going over to the town of Helsingor, home to one of the largest (if not THE largest) castle in Denmark–built in the early 1600’s. While I walked through it with Ricardo and admired the handiwork of it all, the rest of the fam hung out outside in […]

A year ago they didn’t know each other existed, now they’re the best of friends. For cute. This photoshoot was hot and humid, we were sweaty, every mosquito on the planet seemed to love us, but these two still managed to smile and laugh and look pretty through it all!