Microblading: Everything you Need to Know

2 weeks ago I got my eyebrows microbladed! Best decision EVER!

Life as a Div. 1 Athlete

It’s 5:30am and my alarm clock is blaring to make sure I don’t sleep through it. I get out of bed and put on the same outfit I wear every other day because we have to match our teammates for practice. I brush my teeth and grab a protein bar that I’m hoping will get me through the morning. My roommates and I all hop into a car and make our way to the track for our least favorite workout. On our drive we make sure everyone is wearing the right color shorts and pinnie and hope that the rest of the team is too so we don’t get in trouble. We get there, warm up and start sprinting around the track every time coach blows her whistle, all before the sun is even up. 

Meet My Husband

Fun Facts About My Husband

Dating to Engaged to Married

There’s one thing that’s been consistent throughout the stages of dating, being engaged, and getting married. But first, I want to share what was different about these times for me. 

First Christmas Somewhere New

I love Christmas. I love the traditions, the lights and the smells. I love wrapping, giving gifts, and maybe opening a few too! Before Nick and I got married we had the “holiday talk” to figure out where we were going to spend the holidays once we were married. The two main holidays that we wanted to figure out were Thanksgiving and Christmas. One helpful thing is that Canadian and American thanksgivings are a month apart. Since American thanksgiving is pretty close to Christmas we’ve decided we would always be with his family for thanksgiving. Then we would go to Canada every year for Christmas and probably stick around for New Years.

New Country, New Home, New Relationship Status

Our bags were packed and we were about to start on one of the many adventures of our lives. Thankfully Nick and I had each other. Our move to Virginia was definitely stepping into unfamiliar territory, but we were excited and had been anticipating this move for a while. We got settled in and the first thing we realized was that all our friends were miles away. We loved hanging out with each other, but we knew we needed to get plugged into community. 

This hadn’t been a challenge for us previously. For some, this happens when they go off to college, but for each of us we had immediate connections with a group of friends because we both played on a team at college. It was especially easy because that new group of friends had a lot of the same interests, even beyond the sport we played together.

Two Suitcases and a Backpack

When I was 18 I moved from a small town outside of Vancouver, Canada to Lynchburg, Virginia to go to Liberty University. I was recruited to play on their NCAA Div.1 Field Hockey team and was super excited, but I also did not know a single person.

Words That Cause Confusion

Moving to Lynchburg, Virginia for university from Vancouver, Canada was not a huge culture shock for me; I think it was more shocking for the people I met. First of all, I didn’t realize I had an accent until everyone I talked to pointed it out. I can’t really hear the difference, but people think words that have “ou” in them are where they hear the accent the strongest. I can’t tell you how many times my friends would make me say “house” or “out” and then just start laughing.