Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2013 • by admin • In Southern Living, Where We Walkers Are • 0

Our First Christmas in Florida!

It has truly been much warmer than holidays spent in Minnesota…We celebrated Christmas this past weekend with some friends…we both enjoyed making some ‘firsts’ in the kitchen for the party. A spicy queso dip (similar to chili con queso), bruschetta, and a new blend of Cordie’s favorite cheese ball. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures to show…we were both very happy to finally use our food processor and crock pot to make our appetizers.

Becky & I below at her party… We have been friends for 12+ years now!

Cordie & I have been surprised with how ‘festive’ the area we live near is… Lights, Wreaths, Christmas trees etc are all over the place… We decided to take some pictures with some of the decor as you can see below.. and the beach of course:)

We are loving this weather and holiday season!

Having fun throwing sand up in the air as it if was snow…

We hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and enjoy your time with loved ones.

Rewinding

December 14, 2013 • by admin • In Southern Living • 0

Brief Overview

Well, it has been over a month since my last post so below are a few snap shots of what we have been up to..

I went to my FIRST NFL game! We both had a blast.

We spent 5 days in Rochester packing our things into a container to be shipped to Jacksonville. It was great to see friends and family after being away for almost 5 months as well. Above is my parents dog, Scotty and two of my new favorite products I got at TalaHairSalon before leaving. You can see below my Before & After picture from the infamous Christy Cass chopping my hair and making it all healthy.

We of course spent time with some of our favorite little people in the world.

After our time in Rochester we made our way down to St. Louis for a quick stop to see some family. Cordie was very happy to have dinner at Bandanas as you can see the slab of ribs below.

After our stuff arrived in Jacksonville, it quickly filled our place.. below are some shots of our new home and how a lot of it is decorated with our wedding decor!

Below is our dining room wall and the slow progress we are making with things we never put up in Rochester. I still love our theatre seats.

For Cordie’s Birthday weekend we got to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis live, spent time at the beach and then went to a John Mayer concert a couple of weeks later…Cordie had a smile on his face for the entire 4 hours.

Hope you have had a great November and your December is stress-free so far!

Our FIRST year…

October 27, 2013October 26, 2013 • by admin • In One Year Anniversary, Southern Living, Travel, Where We Walkers Are • 1

…in a nutshell

It is so hard to believe that our first year of marriage is already over! We both understand and have heard over the past year together that your first year is meant to be your ‘hardest’ yes we had some moments of misunderstanding…due to a loss of communication… but there wasn’t anything that stands out to either of us which would ‘make’ it a really really hard year…we feel like its been a breeze…

When we started to dream and pray about our year we knew it would be a year of moving forward. Moving forward meant physically moving out of Rochester, pursuing our dreams of what day to day ‘living’ would be like as individuals and as a couple, to see and experience new places, people and culture. From those dreams became short and long term goals as individuals and as a couple…through the pursuit of them we have discovered that we are wonderful accountability partners.

We moved… lived… walked… became a part of the following places… Rochester, MN…drove all over Florida for 2 weeks… Austin, TX (twice)…New York, New York… USA east coastline… Ponte Vedra, FL…. Valencia & Barcelona, Spain… Rome, Cinque Terre, Venezia, Italy… Paris, France and now learning our way around Jacksonville, FL…yes we both learned a lot about one another traveling so much together…

We have laughed immensely… shared tears over lost ones… enjoyed hours and hours of silence together on buses, trains, airplanes, different types of cars…someone once told us that we should ‘enjoy’ our time to bond together when we are traveling… it was quite humorous to us both as being married more than 9 months we felt we had already ‘bonded’… with that said I can confidently tell you that we enjoy one another’s company no matter if we are sitting at home relaxing, working on a project together or in the midst of strangers underneath a sparkling Eiffel Tower….for those of you that may be concerned..

To celebrate our ONE year we ‘claimed’ our outrageously spectacular time in Cinque Terre (you can click on the previous link to see & read out our ‘rugged time’) as our celebration…mostly because it was our favorite place… and staying in an apartment RIGHT on the water, listening to the waves crash at night through our open windows and having our own private view… we knew we couldn’t find anything better!

We are on our way to DISNEY WORLD to spend our official anniversary for the day! Look forward for pics to come…

It has been an amazing year being married to my wonderful husband! And we are both excited and ready for this upcoming year and the many to follow after!

Thank you to those of you reading this that have been a part of our first year and will continue to be in our lives in the many years to follow…here are some of our favorites from the BIG DAY (october 27th, 2012)

Cordie & Katherine