About Me

Welcome to my blog, Health, Love & Happiness!

I am a proud mom to three beautiful little boys Finn, Gavin, and Owen.  I am also a proud wife to my husband, and my best friend, Chris. Three weeks ago, starting a blog would have been the last thing on my mind, and becoming a Beachbody coach, hmmmm probably not!  It was truly a spur of the moment decision, and a decision I am happy I committed to!  

I have had an interest in nutrition and exercise for many years, but my passion grew much deeper after our first son, Finn was born. On September 20, 2010, I went to my first grade classroom and greeted my 20 little first graders like any other day.  As the day went on, I knew something wasn’t quite right, so I stayed at school and made sure my lesson plans were complete for a few weeks. That night we went to the hospital, just to make sure everything was okay.  Within minutes of arriving they said we were going to be meeting our baby boy much sooner than expected.  Finn was born the next day, 6 weeks premature. 

The NICU originally said Finn would stay with them for about 6-8 weeks.  His lungs were not fully developed, and he needed quite a bit of help in the beginning, but over the next couple of days he got stronger and stronger.  Two weeks later, we were able to bring Finn home on an apnea monitor.  Talk about stress!  That crazy machine was stressful, and boy did we have a love hate relationship with it!  We loved it for the security but we sure did hate it for going off way too often!   After a few more hiccups on our journey with Finn, I thought to myself, it is clear I have no control over life, but the one thing I do have control over is his nutrition, our nutrition.

I began to read labels more thoroughly.  I did not just look at the amount of fat grams or calories anymore.  I started to look at the ingredients.  The more I read, the more I learned, and the more I wanted to learn more!  I am so grateful for Finn’s healthy outcome, positive spirit, and for his helping hand in the kitchen, as he sure does love to be our helper!  I love to cook healthy dinners as a family and find new recipes to bake with our boys.