51-75 Fun Facts

Alright here are the fun facts 51-75. This is really turning into the "Kyle & Leah" story since I'm going chronologically... hopefully it's not boring!

51) When our countdown till the wedding day from 100 started, I made & cut sheets of paper with numbers on them, punched holes in the top, and strung them from the wall in my apartment in Charlotte. Kyle and I had a blast pulling down all the numbers. (I can't find the picture right now so in the video underneath, just watch at the end and you'll see it behind Kyle)

52) On July 4th, Kyle and I had headed up to Lake Gaston in North Carolina for a family get together. We stopped by the grocery store to pick up last minute food necessities, and on the bulletin board at the entrance of the store was a "for sale" sign. It had an adorable picture of a pure bred black lab on top of a picnic table... only 1 left! Kyle and I looked at each other and said "well we can just go look at it". We drove into the country with Kyle's family and met Tyson. Well we named him that, but he was adorable and so laid back! (Turns out he had worms and other things that were making him really sick... once he got better as you all know he is NOT laid back! We just had to get him, so we did and the rest is history :)

All grown up and SO CUTE:

53) One night after we had cooked dinner I took out the camera & video taped Kyle. We think this video is so funny and a great memory.

54) Our wedding day was so much fun and we were both so anxious to see each other. The weather was perfect for being December 16th, 2006-- which also happens to be my sister, Tara and her husband, Jamie's wedding anniversary.
Unbelievably neither one of us cried during the vows, and all of our guests could hear us so clearly. We love the picture that was taken by our friend, Tiffin, when Jamie announced us as husband and wife.

55) Unfortunately most of our pictures were ruined by our photographer, Always Autumn Studios (yes I am DEFINITELY putting their name out there). Supposedly his flash malfunctioned for part of the night, but that doesn't even come close to explaining why he missed out on so many of our special moments. Hmm maybe watching him sitting in the pews during our ceremony on our video explains some of it... lazy piece of crap. (FYI we did get all of our money back & rights to all the images, and that helped a little :/ )

56) After leaving the reception, Kyle and I were on the way to our hotel, talking about the day and I yelled "PULL OVER". After I threw up everything I felt MUCH better and we headed to the hotel to actually eat our delicious food that was packed for us. It's a funny memory that only would happen to Leah Baker.

57) Our honeymoon was the best week of our lives, we both agree to that. We had so much fun just being together and doing exactly what we wanted to spend our time doing. We ended up getting bumped to an adult only boutique hotel, and man are we so grateful. We had our own pool on our balcony and loved doing adventures every other day!
We drove in a dune-buggy one afternoon and had a great time EXCEPT for when Kyle drove through a mud puddle and only seemed to get me soaking in the mud!

And how could I leave off this video... I was scared half to death b/c we didn't take trails the whole time... we drove stickshift ON THE HIGHWAY:

58) We came home and had a wonderful time living in our apartment in Charlotte. It was right in the middle of where we both worked so it worked out perfectly. Meanwhile, our house in Charlotte was almost done being built, and we were scheduled to move in around March. It was so neat walking around the lot full of dirt and imagining our first house together.

59) In the middle of February on a Monday morning, Kyle along with 12 other guys from Irwin lost their jobs. It came as a total shock to everyone, including the men who had to tell everyone the news. It wasn't anything any of the guys had done performance wise, unfortunately Irwin had not hit their numbers for the year and they had to downsize a whole department. Kyle immediately started looking for other jobs and by Wednesday he had been offered 2 new jobs... one with Rubbermaid Home (a sister company of Irwin) and one with Hunter Fan down in Atlanta, Georgia. We took a leap of faith and decided on Hunter Fan. Luckily our house in Charlotte let us out of the contract.

60) Kyle went ahead and moved down to Georgia. Hunter put him up in a Residence, while I stayed in North Carolina to finish up my work and help train the new graphic designers. We did long distance for 2 months.

62) Kyle & Chris actually found our home one day when they were wandering around Marietta. We had looked at dozens of homes but when Kyle saw this one he knew I would love it and knew it would be ours. We moved in April 16th, 2007.
We are the end unit of 6 cottages. We are the youngest couple living there, and were actually voted to be the president of our HOA... haha.

63) We both absolutely LOVE our house. We have the best time walking/skateboarding up to the square to go to restaurants, concerts or festivals. Tyson pulls Kyle on the skateboard... and I walk behind watching all the cars laugh & stare at them :) Sorry this video, I can't figure out how to flip it... so just turn your heads to the left!

64) Kyle loves his job and his boss. He is lucky enough to bring Tyson with him to work everyday! It's been so nice, and Tyson absolutely loves it.

65) Kyle & I are getting great experience with my sisters' twins, Natalie & Nathan.
66) We LOVE Guitar Hero.

67) We've been having lots of fun down here going to Thrashers & Braves Games.

68) Kyle started training for sprint triathlons last summer to get back in shape. It was fun going and watching all the events.

69) We've really enjoyed having the Kennesaw Battlefield so close. It's gorgeous there and we love taking hikes through all the trails.
70) Kyle took me to the Georgia fair since we couldn't make it home for the Raleigh fair. Unfortunately it didn't measure up, but we still had fun eating all of our favorite foods.

71) We've never dressed up for a Halloween party before until this past year. We had a great time and dressed up as Popeye and Olive Oyl.
72) We turned half of our garage into an office for Kyle. My parents came down and Kyle & Dad worked for a week straight. It looks so great!

73) For our 1 year anniversary, we went up to Chattanooga, TN for AppState's National Championship. We ended up winning the game and it was such a neat experience to be there. We spent the rest of the weekend in a bed & breakfast, walking around the quaint town & seeing what it was all about.

74) Valentines Day has turned into "Pamper Leah Day", and I look forward to it! Kyle totally spoils me by going grocery shopping for a fancy meal, cooking it and buying me flowers. He's the sweetest :)

75) In March we took a trip to Telluride, CO with Kyle's family. We hadn't been back there in a couple years, and had a ball snowboarding together again. The snow was better than Kyle had seen in 6 years and it was great ridin' down all the slopes!

Kyle will do the last 25 because I'm totally running out of things to say... haha who knows what he's going to come up with! Till next time :)