Our First Year

This past Sunday was our one-year anniversary. Its hard to believe it's already been a year since our wedding. What an eventful and blessed 12 months!! For a small glimpse into what this past year was like, I uploaded a selection of snapshots taken from our phones. This is by no means a complete overview, but include quite a few pictures I haven't been able to include in blog posts before. (note - quite conspicuously missing are many pictures of house progress - this is because I am saving those for a post of their own!)

 

 Moving into our new house

Learning how to cook for two instead of eight...

 

 Working on the house

Finding swimming holes

 

 Going hunting for edible mushrooms

 

 

 

 One of our favorite hobbies has become driving around exploring teeny little backroads to ooh and aah over any old houses we can find. Especially log ones.

 

 150th Gettysburg reenactment

 

Driving back from Gettysburg along the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

 Blackberry time!

 

 

 On the river for my birthday in July

 

 

Sunset on the ridge + picking Queen Anne's Lace

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Jordan's anvil

 

 

 Jordan making beds for our shop

 

 

 Blueberry time

 

 

A rainbow promise

  

Visit from my two youngest siblings

 

 Texas sunset

 

Morning sickness is yuck, but a hammock and a book make it better.

 

 More house progress.

 Sketching the creek

 

  

 

Getting back to sewing

 

 

 The drive up to our house

 My rescued pet baby squirrel - now returned to the wild.

 

 A bit of a bump!

 

Jordan found this antique farm table in the dump and fixed it up for our kitchen

 

 Homemade donuts

 

 Our first glimpse at Marian!

 

 Cream of mushroom soup from wild picked 'shrooms. Jordan had me get the recipe from his Mom, and even though I'm not the biggest fan of mushrooms, it wasn't bad. :)

 

My kitchen by lamplight

 

 Frosty mornings - the cookstove begins to feel good

 

 

 

 Doing laundry

 

Antiquing (another favorite hobby....)

 

Our little cookstove just wasn't putting out enough heat for the whole house, so Jordan rigged up this nifty barrel stove - so warm and toasty!!

 

 Chinking the upstairs

 

 And for a bit of reality - my messy kitchen.

 It doesn't always look like this, but pretty often it does. : /

 

 Surprise visit from my family - Carolina makes a cute old-fashioned picture

 

 Fairies live in our woods. I know because I see their house doors.

 

 Fall colors

 

 Working on sewing orders

  

Thanksgiving. Pie supper at our friends house

 

Headed to Texas for the holidays

 

 Jordan loaded up the bed business and took it on the road with us

 

 

 Jordan helping work cows

 

 I got the fun jobs - making a gingerbread village with the kiddos,

 

Sewing for baby,

 

 and scrapbooking the wedding.

 

 Back in Tennessee - a snowfall

 

Marian getting ready to arrive...

 

Marian here!

 Exploring the world with Dad

What an amazing year. I wonder what the next will bring...