Travel Tuesday: Washington D.C.

This week's Travel Tuesday is all about our nation's capital! So my mom and I traveled to Washington, D.C. on our very first solo trip almost two years ago, and this May we're going back! My brother works for the airline SunCountry so we get crazy great deals through him, and I work for a Marriott so we're usually very taken care of when it comes to a nice hotel. I was so pleasantly surprised with how clean the city was. So the real purpose of the trip was to run a 5K in honor of a close family member who was diagnosed with brain cancer a while back. This year, I'm actually trying to prepare for the race a little better so I've been running regularly and trying to eat super healthy, which is hard to do when you were born with the biggest of sweet tooth's. Here are a few photos from our trip!

 That would be me after the 5k, looking a little sweaty.

My awesome mom!

These next two photos are courtesy of my stepdad, Wayne, who will be joining us this year for the race.

What I loved about this city so much is the cleanliness, how easy it was to walk everywhere and how easy the metro was! I can't wait to go back so soon and to really check out more of Georgetown as well. 

Have a happy Tuesday everyone! Let me know if you have any suggestions of places to check out while we're in Washington D.C. and Georgetown! :)

xoxo, K

p.s. If you would like to donate to our team for the Race for Hope click here! You will be donating on behalf of Julie Jensen (my mom). 

Travel Tuesday: Guatemala

It feels like time is going so fast lately! In honor of it being Tuesday, I've decided to share a little bit about my trip to Guatemala a few years ago. My junior year of college I decided to sign up for a mission trip to Guatemala during my Spring Break. The beautiful thing about mission trips is you start off as strangers with this group of people who also are giving up their time and money in order to help others and serve the Lord, and you wind up becoming SO close. While there, we worked with an organization called WorldWide Hands. It was a ton of work, but we definitely got some free time to explore as well. Here are a few of my favorite memories:

This is our leaders for the trip praying and preparing for the day. Also, look at that view! This is where we stayed for the majority of the week. I don't know what it is about this photo, but I love it.

Our job for the week was to move ALL those cement blocks onto the second floor. We were all tuckered out at the end of each day.

That would be me hanging out with all the adorable nuggets during lunchtime. Their school was literally right next door to the new school we were building.

Me and my good friend Chelsea wearing the traditional Guatemalan dress. 

At a random bus stop taking in the view and the mountains. Guatemala was so naturally breath-taking. It was such a nice change to wake up and see mountains everywhere!

Have you ever traveled to Guatemala or south of the United States?

xoxo, K

Travel Tuesday: Italy

So you know how everyone does #throwbackthursday or #whateverdayoftheweekitisandawordthatbeginswiththatletter? Well this is my attempt to be cool like the kids these days so I've decided on Travel Tuesday. No one gets excited about Tuesday because it's still early on, so I figured everyone (including myself) could use a little inspiration. Maybe I've got a bad case of the travel bug lately, but here are a few photos from my trip to Italy in 2009 to inspire that Wanderlust inside of you.

You honestly just don't see that kind of historical, beautiful and enchanting side alley in the United States. I could get wonderfully lost for hours in these side streets.

Here I am in the same city enjoying a cappuccino with my mom and stepdad. Little did I know, this town is actually where my fiancé's family is from. It's the little things in life you guys. 

Have a fabulous rest of your day!

xoxo, K