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  Hi everyone, Welcome back to my blog! In today's post I am so excited to be sharing the healthy habits that I enjoy and help me live the best life that I can. We just started a brand new year, so what better way to kick off 2021 by taking time to do the little things that make you feel your best! Drink Water My first tip is simple and that is drinking enough water. This is pretty self explanatory, but water really has an affect on our daily energy and I can definitely tell when I drink less water I feel groggy and have low energy. I also try to drink a full bottle of water before my morning coffee.  That would definitely be one tip I swear by. Establish a Morning Routine Another tip that has really impacted my life in a positive way is developing a morning routine. This does not have to be journaling or meditation or anything that is extremely time consuming.  It doesn't matter what your morning routine looks like as long as it leaves you feeling accomplished, refreshed, and

Today’s post is all about my favorite dairy free products. I’ve been officially dairy free for about six months and I have tried out a ton of different products! I never realized how many different items contain milk until I read the nutrition labels.    When I first started buying dairy free products I quickly realized that not all products actually taste good. In fact some of the products that I’ve tried taste absolutely nasty and are NOT worth the money.  Another factor to remember when looking for dairy free alternatives is that most of the time products are going to be pretty expensive so you want to make sure what you are buying is worth the price.   There are many great options that I’m willing to spend a little more for, but I tried to keep this post limited to the affordable items that still taste amazing! Here are my top five favorite dairy free products that I highly recommend.         Earth Balance “butter” First up is my all time favorite butter alternative that I’ve ever

Welcome back to my blog!   Today's post is going to be all about comparison and how to prevent getting caught up in that cycle. I know I definitely have my days where I struggle and it's super common for other girls to get caught up in this too. I am not an expert and definitely don't have it all figured out but I used to struggle with comparison big time in college and over the past few years I have definitely discovered how to avoid falling into that thought pattern/cycle.    Naturally as women we tend to compare ourselves. We compare our bodies, our relationships, our families, our homes. We compare what kind of wife, what kind of girlfriend, what kind of daughter, what kind of friend we are. Why are we always looking at other people as the "ideal version" of ourself instead of thinking that who we are is just as amazing??  I often catch myself looking at other people and think: "what are they doing that I can do better?"  This kind of thinking is NOT

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog. It still feels so surreal to say Devin and I built our first home. WOW. In todays post I wanted to share a little bit about our building process and lessons we learned after building our house. Starting from the beginning, Devin and I originally looked around at houses we’d be interested in buying. All of the options near where we wanted to live were either way our of our price range, or way too much of a fixer upper than we were looking for.  We started to realize that finding a house was going to be harder than we anticipated.   Maybe we were being too picky, but we knew we both wanted to find someplace that we could see ourselves in for many years to come. We randomly found a lot for sale that was perfectly on the side of town we wanted to live, and we loved the homey feel of the neighborhood. We decided to go for it and signed the papers. One reason we felt good about building over buying was that we’d get to design our home ex

Welcome back to my blog! Today's post is a little different than anything that I have written before. I've been putting off writing this because I really wanted to take time to gather my thoughts before I shared them. I always want to be open and honest on this platform. This past year has been full of life changes like engagements, medical diagnoses, starting new jobs, building our first house, changing friendships, a global pandemic, and much more. There has just been a lot going on. There have been challenging difficult moments and the happiest most joy filled moments that I've ever experienced. This year is definitely going to be full of a lot of life transitions for both Devin and I. I know that life transitions can feel very overwhelming and that with any kind of change comes many different emotions and thoughts. Sometimes our thoughts turn into an internal loop that can be loud, persistent, and ultimately paralyzing. And once it begins, it is hard to stop.

In today's post I want to talk about relationships, love, and how you know you are with someone you could spend forever with. I've written before about  how to have a healthy/happy relationship , but todays topic is a little different. When you are dating someone, your relationship tends to go through stages. There's the initial stage where you fall in love with someone and then there is another stage, the one where you realize you want to spend the rest of  your life with that person. In my personal opinion there shouldn't be a timeline on either of these stages. In my experience dating Devin I knew VERY early on that he was "the one." How did I know this? Keep reading to find out! you laugh together This might seem so simple… but spending forever with someone is a really long time. If you don’t have fun together then that’s going to make it a lot harder. It’s important to find someone who makes you laugh and you have a fun