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Leave Part 1: Portland

T.J. and I finally got to take some leave together! Multiple uninterrupted days in row. Hasn't happened since our mini moon. Waking up in the morning together (and not just for a bleary eyed kiss as he heads out the door to work) and having someone to wrangle the puppy with me was glorious.

We …

learning to love Seattle

T.J. spent the first month of our married lives doing an away rotation at a hospital in Seattle. The Army set him up in an apartment walking distance from said hospital and so I spent most every weekend of that long month in that apartment with him.

Honestly my first impression of Seattle was not g…

a new first

My parents came to visit us last week and it was wonderful.
I hadn't seen them since the wedding and I had been looking forward to having them in our home for so long.  It was something so special to me, like a rite of passage, one of those unexpected firsts, a sacred moment that I didn't …

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes....

...A puppy!!!

Meet the newest member of our little family: Hunley.  Typical newlywed move there. Basically a requirement for your first year of marriage, right? Get married, get a puppy. 
He is an 8 week old Boykin spaniel, he's a ball of chocolate love and I'm so smitten!  We brought him home…