Stephanie: January 2015

As you can tell, the blog isn't exactly my forum of choice these days. I'm much more steady on Instagram and will most likely continue to do so. But I do, for posterity's sake, feel like I should post a little year-in-review here.

2014 was awesome. I accomplished some amazing goals, I made some amazing friends, and did some other AMAZING things. So here you go. None of these have been posted on Insta or on Facebook (at least on my account) and thus you probably have not seen these photos. Probably.

January

Was pretty quiet except for the occasional dance party...until we did a food marathon for Scott Porter's birthday which means that we ate a 26.2 restaurants in the 5 NYC boros in 1 day. From 7am to 10pm we ate. Nonstop. One day I will do a full post on that.

Tara and Morgan teaching us the dance from Dirty Dancing

Food Marathon-ing in Staten Island

Favorite part of the food marathon - when Chad turned into a table so we could eat pirogis.

Scott's best birthday yet.

Clipboard

February

Went to Punxsutawney to celebrate Groundhog Day. We missed seeing Phil see his shadow by about 10 minutes. Saddest day of the year.

Punxsutawney was awesome. It was out of control with groundhog love and I loved it.

Tara's Birthday weekend in Philly with some of my favorite ladies this side of the Mississippi

I also went to see my ex-boyfriend's younger sister in a burlesque show. She is not pictured here, but that experience was hilarious.

March

March was a whirlwind. I met a dude - what is it with me and foreign gingers? Oy. It was fun whilst it lasted. He's worth a mention for sure. I also visited the crown at the Statue of Liberty and went to Puerto Rico! Amazing month.

Dave the Aussie

Climbing the stairs to the crown.

I'm inside Lady Liberty's face!

Behold, a Puerto Rican taco truck. <3 td="">

besties & beach

cock fight. naturally.

April

Recovering from the Aussie, Puerto Rico and Easter!

come back to me, friends!

Freeman's on the Lowest East Side is crazy awesome. Go to there right now.

Waiting for the Easter Egg Hunt to begin!

May
In May I ran a half marathon and missed my PR by 2 minutes. It is unclear what else I did in May as this is the only photo I have from the entire month.

June

In June I went to Spain, France, and Monaco with my parents. What a dreamy vacation.

This place was about 2 hours east of Madrid - Monasterio de Piedra. My parents loved it so much that they went back a handful of times with other couples from Madrid. It was amazing. This is my top tourist recommendation now in all of Spain.

from my nightmares

Nice is one of the dreamiest places I've been.

Monte Carlo

San Sebastian

Bilbao Guggenheim

Santiago de Compostela - it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to go there and while I don't need to go back, I'll always remember all the pilgrims walking into town - was really moving.

More races

July
Ran more races, played outside a lot. Just lived it up in the summer weather.

Wakeboarding

4th of July kisses on the subway. The look on Daniel's face is priceless.

5k with Morgan

In Charleston with my favorite princess-in-training, Ari

August

Matt got married at the beginning of August and was followed quickly by a work trip to Nantucket for a week.

After Matt's wedding with my lovelies

Nantucket

Google maps told me that this was a viable road...and I was in an Escalade.

'Sconset is where I live in my imaginary life.

Hosted a baby shower for my coworker at the office patio

September
A few more of my close friends left the city for the west and I was real sad, but tried to live it up with them while I still had the chance.

Hosted a baby shower for my dear friend Liz before she moved away

For Lisa's birthday we went Contra dancing which is the sweatiest form of exercise known to man.

I ran a ragnar up in the Adirondacks and I looked pretty amazing on the beach of Lake George before my second leg...

My grandmother passed away in late September and so I went to Utah for a few days to be with family and I got to see all these crazy Utahns who used to be on the east coast with me.

October
Pretty much all I did in October was run and eat. I did take a little vacation though with some friends to see the fall foliage.

Ladies night dinner

I started training for a marathon in July - and here I am at the end of my 20 mile training run. Was a super long morning.

On our way to New Hampsha. I'm not ashamed to say that I ate some dingdongs in the car soon after this photo was taken.

Em and I posing for pics out on the lake

Stacie hates apple picking and I feel like this gif of us demonstrates that perfectly.

Soaking in those fall colors

We sent this to Micah. Nice picking there, Tara

Emily took one for the team and cut up about 50 onions for dinner

For Lynda's birthday we went to the Blaze.

Last second trip to the New York Botanical Garden with Stacie, Morgan, and Lisa

Taken on one of my last runs before the marathon!

Group costumes are just always the way to go. Daniel looked amazing, right?

November

Holy amazing month. I started it by running my 2nd marathon in my own town. Best decision ever. I loved every second of it - even the second that I couldn't breath and had to get an asthma treatment in the medical tent at mile 25. I high-five over 1,000 people that day and just yelled and danced the entire way. Loved it. I also went to France, Belgium, and The Netherlands at the end of the month. Rocked November.

This is at about mile 16 of the New York marathon on the Queensboro bridge. What an amazing day.
I don't want to run another marathon, but I'd re-live that day again and again.

And of course my friends made posters. <3 td="">

My friends = the best

All of these people ran with me during my training - and obviously many are not pictured, but I am just so so grateful for everyone who ran with me during that horrible training. You guys are just awesome.

My parents at Mont St. Michel. I'd love to go back in the summertime, maybe. The cathedral tour was completely underwhelming, but I was glad we went. Cool little town.

Marie Antoinette had a little hamlet built on the edge of Versailles so she could play there with friends. Say what? #richgirlproblems

Le Galleries Lafayette window displays were completely horrible this year, so if you didn't see them, you didn't miss anything. But the Burberry windows next door were really great.

This may look like just an ordinary kitchen/lab, but this is at the Marie Curie museum in Paris.
LeOra's hero was Marie Curie so we went and checked it out.

We came across this recreation of Marie Antoinette being held in her jail cell before she was beheaded and it completely creeped me out. You're welcome.

I went to The Netherlands and met up with Morgan for a few days and we ended up taking an unplanned tour of the country instead of spending the day in Delft. We finally made it to Delft, but with enough time to get lunch and go home. Ha!

December
One party after another.