Milestones and Special Occasions

My birthday is coming up on the 22nd – yay! I still love my birthday. I guess I haven’t quite hit the age yet where I don’t love it anymore lol. This week I was thinking about the post I wrote for my 29th birthday about my 30 things I’d like to do before I […]

Dan and I finally got to get out town for a few days! We didn’t really make any vacation plans this year, so it was a bit of a last-minute trip, but it was so nice to get away and explore a new place. When I told Dan we should take a long weekend and

Last week, my parents had the grandkids for four days. For almost a week leading up to it, my oldest nephew, Connor, was asking if he could have a sleepover at our house. This isn’t the first time he’s asked to stay over, so we finally said he could plan on staying over one night

Believe it or not, Dan and I will have been married for two years already on Monday! Doesn’t feel all that long ago I was writing a blog post celebrating our first anniversary, and now we’re here at number two. Time really does fly! This last year has brought lots of great adventures together. From

What a wonderful, busy week it was! Two months ago, the NATE staff moved into our brand-new office building; and this week we had our official Ribbon Cutting and Open House celebration. When I was hired almost four years ago, there was already talk of building a new office, so it’s pretty awesome that it

I did it! I survived my fourth NATE UNITE tradeshow. As usual, it was a loooong week, but it was a good week too. This year brought us to Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve only been to Las Vegas once before and it was just a weekend trip. This week gave me the opportunity to explore

Who else LOVES Valentine’s Day!? I might be in the minority, but I love it. I love, love. And I have the best Valentine there is. Every year, Dan gets me flowers for Valentine’s Day, and he always writes me the sweetest little notes along with them. I’ve saved every single one of them and

If you’ve been paying attention to local news this week, it’ll seem like my parents are celebrities! I’ve seen their faces pop up on quite a few local news posts and it’s pretty cool. My mom was in the news because last week she was awarded as the South Dakota Family Doctor of the Year

This week was a bit of whirlwind. I spent most of it in Florida for work – it was busy, but it was also a nice change of scenery, and a lot warmer! I was sent to Orlando to represent NATE in a booth at the BICSI Winter 2026 Tradeshow, and I’ve known for a

Happy New Year, y’all! I’m looking forward to all 2026 has in store, and I’m hopeful that it’ll be even better than 2025 was. I’m not typically one to make New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve never chosen a word to represent the year ahead – but I think I might change that this year. After