Happy New Year!!

Wow! 2013 flew by so fast I never got to blog about it! Lots of ups and downs in the year. All in all it was a good year and I'm looking forward to an even better 2014!

Just recently moved from Gainesville to Orlando. Starting a new job with Florida Hospital Medical Group Diabetes and Endocrinology this coming Monday. Very excited to be back with the Florida Hospital company!

Now I just need to work on getting settled back into town. Need to find a place to live and then find a new gym! I'm going a little nuts without a place to go do some weight training :) Thankfully I can go do some yoga, run and bike to get me through!

Fall is in the air

Wow I haven't posted on this page in a long time. I've been too busy with blogging about training.... well let's just say I'm not posting there for a bit due to burn out and injury.

Fall is in the air... finally the weather is going to start getting really nice. Krystle and I took a bike ride on Sunday and it was beautiful out. Gone are the mornings of 80 something degrees with high humidity! It was 76 degrees and a nice crisp breeze! I love mornings when I can wake up and its 65 degrees and I can enjoy my coffee on the porch... so nice.

I will blog more later... I swear :)

One of the things I missed

Today I did one of my favorite things :) When I was younger we used to have a swing on our little screened front porch and you would always catch me out there reading. I especially liked to be out there when it was raining. So today around dinnertime it started to rain, and I took myself out to my screened back porch. I sat there and I read. It was so awesome to do that. It just reminds me how this was the best idea I had to come back home!

Florida.... I have missed you

Dear Florida,

It is so good to be back "home". Yes I may have been born in Pennsylvania, but Florida is my home. I can wear flip flops everyday and no one cares, I can go to the store without makeup on and no one cares! Back to the land of fresh seafood (and hopefully back to less food poisoning than I had in Texas), back to the laid back carefree ways of a Floridian.

The whole family is here, and that may be partly why this place is home to me. But now I'm back and can watch my nieces and nephews grow up, I can keep an eye on my ornery as hell father and enjoy time with my mother and sisters.

I can't promise that I won't ever leave you again Florida, but I can promise that I'm not going anywhere for awhile (unless its on vacation!).

Stephanie

The time has come......

The time has come where I must say goodbye to Texas. I would say its been an awesome (almost) 4 years but in reality it really hasn't. When I look back at the time I'm spent here I see a lot of struggle and heartache. From the betrayal of A.J. when I was at Planned Parenthood to the heartache (and what feels like betrayal) of Jonathan deciding a country was a better girlfriend than me. There have been great times too. Like floating the river with my friends, meeting new people, getting closer to Ashley Bass and enjoying time with Rebeckah. Its time to start helping out more with my family, especially my father. He's a stubborn as a mule so let's hope I can get through to him.

My last day in Texas will be March 25th. Bright and early on the 26th Krystle, Parker and I are getting in the u-haul and headed Eastbound and down! 

My destination is Gainesville, Florida... GO GATORS!

Love this!

"What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meanness's and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all - and underneath - he sees, knows and loves you. A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself." 

~ C. Raymond Beran ~

Pulled this off my Facebook page. Can't remember where I got it the first time but its very powerful. 

This post is for Parker!

I love my dog Parker... most of you already know that. He's like my kid! So this post goes out to him. You can laugh and call me crazy if you wish but the Blake Shelton song "God Gave Me You" explains what Parker is to me :)

I’ve been a walking heartache
I’ve made a mess of me
The person that I’ve been lately
Ain’t who I wanna be

But you stay here right beside me
And watch as the storm blows through
And I need you

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you
Gave me you

 He can be stubborn

 He tries to hide in the covers on cold days :)

 He looks like Aunt Jemima

 He's so darn cute!

 And he's a ham for the camera!

Gotta love my kiddo! He will be 6 this year, he started to get gray last year. Boston's can live over 15 years, so lets hope he sticks around for at least 9 more then!