{featured friday} there's something about mary

{featured friday} there's something about mary

4.05.2013

{featured friday} highlights some of my favorite blogs and websites that I want to share with all of you! These are blogs that consistently blow me away with amazing content. I know you’ll fall in love with them too!

This featured friday is a little special. While Mary's blog is one of my favorites, that's not the only reason I want to feature her today. In fact, there are many, many reasons she deserves this special post. 

But let's back up and start at the beginning. Mary and I met while we were studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark spring of 2009. Actually, I'm not entirely sure how we ended up meeting...I think we took a class together? Mary? Is that right? It could have been because some of her classmates from Indiana were my neighbors in the American dorm I lived in. I'm not sure and neither one of us can remember. We actually tried to figure it out...but can't. 

The gang in Cinque Terre, Italy

Nice, France

But that's not really important. The important part is, we met. And became sweet, sweet friends. We spent our spring break traveling through France and Italy together. It was clear that we got along great and really understood each other. We celebrated 21st birthdays together (not that exciting when you're abroad...) and I made homemade American Mac&Cheese for her host family. 

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margaux webster sarin

margaux webster sarin

4.05.2011

My sister, wow, is honestly one of the coolest people I know. Mom, if you're reading this, I really mean it!! I know it's pretty hard to believe but my sister and I used to fight...bad. We are only 2 years apart so there was a lot of hair pulling, face scratching and chaos in our household. As kids, we both rode horses which caused a lot of competition between us. However, we soon branched out on our own paths and have gotten closer every year. Now, we talk almost every other day and we actually like to hang out with each other, not to mention miss each other.

1. She's 20 years old (but she'll want me to tell you that she'll be 21 on June 29th, let the countdown begin!)
2. She has light brown hair and brown eyes and she's taller...taller than me.
3. She's a junior at UMASS Amherst.
4. She's an Alpha Chi Omega.
5. She had her appendix out in Ecuador.
6. She speaks pretty good Spanish.
7. She used to call me Ya-Ya when she couldn't say my name. Now she calls me San-San. Somethings never change.
8. She loves animals especially our cats (Mikey-RIP, Maddie-RIP and Millie).

Here's a few cool things about my sister:

She was born with 11 toes. No seriously, my mom asked my Dad just after she was born "How many fingers and toes?" to which he promptly replied 11. My Dad is a serious jokester so obviously she laughed it off until she saw the little extra toe coming off her pinky toe. And no, it is no longer attached to her.

She spent her junior year of high school in Ecuador on a Rotary International exchange program. She took french in high school and didn't know ANY spanish. When she came back, she was mostly fluent!

My sister (second from the left) with her host family

She bakes cakes. Yea, I know you're thinking "Hey, I can bake a cake too!" but she bakes KICK BUTT cakes! She's made wedding cakes for our family friends, barbie cakes and even won a cake competition at her school judged by Duff Goldman from Charm City Cakes.

she likes horses

meeting Duff Goldman!

She rides horses, which basically needs no explanation for why it's cool. She rides on the team at UMASS - Amherst where she goes to school. She also plays polo - which is terrifying to watch but also a really cool sport. She played on the Yale high school team.

Yale High School Polo Team

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She picked the BEST major - ever. She's a Hospitality and Hotel Management major which means she has to do mandatory internships like last summer in Hilton Head at a resort and this summer at a country club in Nantucket.

working in Hilton Head

Basically, she's all around the best sister there is. I'm so blessed that we've gotten so close over the last year and I hope only for the best for her! I love you seeeesssterrr so very much!

SMU Graduation

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