outpace cancer walk

Anthony, Emery, + I did the 1 mile walk around the OU Health Sciences Center for Outpace Cancer in honor of my mom’s fight with Ovarian Cancer. Emery + I wore our teal in awareness of ovarian cancer. At the bottom of this post is an info-graphic with symptoms (early & advanced). Please make sure […]

brave shave

We went to Shawnee to be apart of the shaving of my mom’s head, just days before her 64th birthday. It didn’t take long for the chemo to cause her hair to fall out. She is so incredibly brave, allowing her entire family to cut parts of her hair.

ovarian cancer

On April 24th, my mom received the diagnosis of ovarian cancer by her OB/GYN. The next day the family met up at OU Stevenson Cancer Center to get double confirmation from an oncologist + figure out next steps. I will forever remember my mom’s phone call. I was in the last day of a YMCA […]

easter 2019

our first home

On July 23rd, 2018, Anthony + I bought our first home. In typical fashion, it couldn’t be without fanfare! We knew we would be pushing the limits on closing (though it was over a month since our offer was accepted), as Anthony would be leaving on that Sunday to fly to DC for two weeks. […]

rising star award

I’ve wrote before about just a few things that I was lucky to partake in during the first few months of my job at the North Side YMCA. Over the past year, time + time again I have been reminded that I’m 100% in the right place. I’m in the career that I’m meant to […]