DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT PREGNANT. YOU CAN STOP ASKING.
It’s been 18 months since our honeymoon, and five truly exciting things have happened that I haven’t written about. Mostly, we’ve just been biding our time in Charlotte and spoiling our good girl Dixie, but we still have some big news to share. Again, not pregnant. Sorry mom.
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O N E
A week after our honeymoon we got married! Yeah, you probably know this. I decided not to share wedding pictures or planning here, so I’m including it in the updates. We were so lucky to have to most amazing weather after the hurricane changed course and the most wonderful friends and family to celebrate with. I also highly recommend the pre-wedding Honeymoon. J started work immediately after the wedding, so initially our options were pre-wedding honeymoon, or no honeymoon at all. I am so glad we did the honeymoon early. All of the details of the wedding were figured out when we left (three weeks before the wedding) and there are going to be last minute stresses and updates no matter where you are. Why not be somewhere relaxing and amazing? Wedding planning is so stressful, it was great to spend quality time with my husband and relax before the celebration.
T W O
For our wedding gifts to each other, I put J on the waitlist for a special watch (Rolex 116610 for any watch nerds out there) and J put me on the waitlist for a puppy. We got really lucky with the watch and were able to purchase one in about three weeks, but we didn’t get as lucky for a puppy. Well, after OVER A YEAR on the waitlist, we were matched with the sweetest most handsome little brother for Dixie, and in November we picked up our teddy bear pup. If you don’t follow me on Instagram and haven’t seen the excessive pictures yet, Meet Duke! We’ve been told he’ll be anywhere between 25lbs and 65lbs full grown, so stay tuned to watch him stay little or get double dixie’s size. He’s already 23.8 lbs…
T H R E E
The envelope from the NC Bar Association was delivered while we were on our honeymoon. We were too nervous to open it before our wedding, but we can now say that J passed the North Carolina Bar Exam and had his first big boy job as a lawyer! This is probably more exciting for me since I’m not the one who actually had to go to work doing lawyer things, but I’m so proud that all his hard work finally paid off. This news was also much more exciting before updates four and five..
F O U R
It didn’t take long after passing the NC bar to figure out that we didn’t love Charlotte. I grew up with an amazing community and friends that are basically family, and we just couldn’t find “our people” or a community that felt the same in Charlotte. We absolutely love the US National Whitewater Center and how close we were to Asheville. We spent every weekend running on the USNWC mountain biking trails or letting the dogs run around and swim in the river. Dixie is happiest running around in the muck and swimming after me in the Catawba. We trained for my first half and full marathons on the trails and I ran my first 10K there. I will definitely miss being close enough to Asheville that we could go up for the day (or even dinner when we were feeling stir crazy… I like driving, okay). Especially when the Charlotte weather became unbearably hot, we would get the pups in the car and head to the mountains. But we finally decided that these two things weren’t enough reason to stay in Charlotte and made the decision to move.
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F I V E
Move where you ask? We have now officially moved to Atlanta, GA and Princess Dixie and Duke finally have a yard and are living the life they deserve.
This will be our seventh move and the fifth state in the seven plus years we’ve been together and it is definitely our last. We are so excited to put down some roots.
We’re calling in the Tree House and I can’t wait for you to visit!
