1. When do you sense being most alive? Why?
When I am with Bo. It still seems so amazing to me that I carried this little boy in my body for 9 months. He is a part of me. I love seeing him change and grow each day. I love his curiosity about the world. I feel like by having him I am able to relive all of those special milestones that childhood brings.
2. What do you want your gravestone to read? Why?
I don’t want a gravestone. I want to be cremated. To the important people in my life, I will be remembered. A gravestone isn’t necessary to keep those memories alive.
3. What person has influenced your life the most? Why?
Grandpa, followed closely by my mom. They both raised me to be the person that I am today. While it wasn’t traditional, I wouldn’t change a thing.
4. Choose a word that best describes your life up to this moment? Why?
Determined. I never allow anything to stand in the way of my ultimate goals and dreams. If I am told I can’t do something, I become that much more determined to find a way to do it. This has applied to numerous aspects of my life — my grades, my pageant experience, teaching, infertility… I find a way to make my dreams come true – it may be a different path than I had originally intended, but I do make it happen.
5. The best advice I ever received was…
Don’t pay interest. 
From Grandpa, of course.
6. In one word, describe your closest friends and explain why that word best describes them as a whole?
Tolerant. My closest friends have been with me through many crazy times in my life. Even when the road became bumpy, they’ve hung on.
7. What real person, dead or alive, do you wish you could be more like? Why?
There is no one person that I would like to be more like. Many people in my life exhibit traits that I wish I could possess but overall I’m pretty satisified just being me.
8. If you could look into the future to find out one thing, what would you want to know?
I would love to know how many children I will have. If I could peek into the future and see where Mike and I are 30 years from now — just for a moment – I think that would provide me with the direction I need to know what I am ultimately working towards.
9. If you could hang a motto in every home, what would it say?
Everything happens for a reason. Because it does.
10. What was your proudest moment?
I’ll give you a hint — it happened 7 months ago, today. 
