New Year’s Resolutions Worth Keeping
Penn and I couldn’t be more opposite when it comes to making and keeping resolutions. I love to start the year with a vision board, lots of goals, and I am very public about what those are. I’ll tell anyone…
Letting Your Voice Be Heard
When you live most of your life on a national stage, it’s hard for people to know the real you. As a professional athlete and brand ambassador, you get used to portraying a certain image. So when all of that…
We’re on The Amazing Race!
Whenever Penn and I would put together IKEA furniture, we would always joke… “We better get better at this if we’re ever going to be on The Amazing Race.” You see we remember when The Amazing Race first aired back…
How We Anticipate Each Other’s Needs
Marriage isn’t always 50/50. In fact, in our marriage, there are times one partner is pulling the entire load. Penn and I wrote a whole book about the marriage lessons we’ve learned through counseling and doing life together for the…
Marriage Through Ted Lasso Quotes
When it comes to our marriage it sometimes feels like we “fell out of the lucky tree and hit every branch on the way down, ended up in a pool of cash and Sour Patch Kids.” Penn and I are…
Treat Your Partner Like A Stranger
Penn and I have been married for 16 years, so we’ve gotten real comfortable with each other. (Like he sees me in 20-year-old sweatpants and still thinks I’m hot.) We have gotten so comfortable, in fact, that one day while…
How We Make Our Time Together Count
At the start of a relationship, you move mountains to spend more time together. Sleep? Never heard of her! That errand I need to run, let’s do it together! The couple that picks up their dry cleaning together, stays together.…
Know Your Fight Cycles
If there’s one thing Penn and I know for sure, it’s to not dive into deep conversations in the month of December. It almost always leads to an argument. We also try to avoid big discussions late at night when…
Why I’m Sorry Sucks
A couple of years ago, Penn and I realized something while we were in one of our sessions with our marriage coach, Christopher Edmonston. We were having a lot of the same fights and never really coming to a resolution.…
Parenting Gets Easier, Right?
When Penn and I became parents, we had no idea what we were in for. When the newborn or toddler stage got hard, we’d make finish lines for ourselves to get through it. We’d say things like “Once they sleep…
