Newlywed News: The last 7 months...

It's hard to believe Lee and I have been married for 7 months (boy time sure does fly when you're having fun!)! This has been a year of change to say the least. We got married on January 18th and that's when I went from 'Kristen Carr' to 'Kristen Skierkiewicz', which will forever further complicate my life. "I'm sorry, can you spell that?" "Oh wow, that's a doozy!" "How do you say that again?" are just a few of my favorite phrases when calling for carryout, making a doctors appointment or talking to Time Warner Cable. So if that's not a big enough life change, then in March we decided to move to sunny San Diego! It was one of those "if we don't do it now, we never will" life decisions. So after Lee got all the necessary approvals from work, we put the house on the market and started packing! It all happened very quickly....quicker than I probably would have liked, but what is the saying? Just rip the band-aide off....or something like that. The house went on the market at 1:00 on a Monday, and by Tuesday at 5:00 we had 14 showings and two offers, one of which we accepted. We still didn't even have a place to live in California! So that next week we flew out to San Diego and were lucky to find a place in Carlsbad (North County) that we love that is only 2 miles from the beach (Lee's biggest criteria when house hunting!). So fast forward through all the tears, headaches, anxiety and stress and here we are. Almost two months in California and we couldn't be happier! I think it's still sinking in that this is now "home", but as each day passes we feel more settled. We have California drivers licenses and licenses plates (if you've ever heard horror stories about the DMV out here, whatever you heard is true!), we are frequenting local farmers markets for organic produce, we purchased road bikes to get around town and Lee has taken up every water sport he can possibly find time for. We still sound like mid-westerners and haven't picked up phrases like "gnarly" or "super rad" (yes, yes they absolutely say both of those here in SoCal), we are still trying to figure out how to cut so much meat out of our diets, and do not consider ourselves Liberals... but I suppose at least two of those three things will come with time:)

Now to the most important subject that I'm sure you're all waiting for an update on.... Miss CiCi! Of course she's the cutest dog in Carlsbad and she LOVES that California is so dog friendly because she gets to go almost everywhere we go! A few of her favorite spots are the dog beach, any outdoor patio that provides her own doggie dish and Home Goods;)

Here are a few pics to share so you can see some of what we've been up to!