Category: Life

The adventures of #daveyandkaylee

Making cookies and what’s to come!

Since Davey and I aren’t exactly elite members of Minneapolis’ social scene (aka we don’t have friends yet), we find creative ways to entertain ourselves. Last night, we made cookies!

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Baby Hiatt and I had a difficult time restraining ourselves from eating the cookie dough.

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Davey was shocked to find out that my “secret chocolate chip cookie recipe” was listed on the back of the Nestle chocolate chip bag.

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“Davey, I have to sit down and take a cookie-eating-break. I’m pregnant.”

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I had to put this picture in so you know we also eat fruit….sometimes.

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I’ve had a lot of extra time on my hands lately since I have yet to secure employment (coming close, though!). Being unemployed is one of the strangest feelings, and I have a new appreciation for anyone who has spent more than 2 weeks looking for a job. It’s exhausting! I can only talk about my ‘strengths and weaknesses’ so much. But this extra time has allowed me to plan and brainstorm what exactly I want this bloggy blog to be. I have come up with 2 very different, but very exciting goals for this blog:

Document the story of #daveyandkaylee (and baby Hiatt!) that we can look back on for years to come.

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Provide a resource for my peers that includes basic biomechanical, postural, and ergonomic lifestyle changes that can be made to avoid mechanical pain, injury, or early degenerative changes.

As a physical therapist, I am excited to use my knowledge to present fun and easy ways we can protect our bodies from harm and injury–ways you may not have considered! Sure, we’re young—but we won’t always be! Let’s keep our muscles and bones in the best condition possible to preserve our youth. Stay tuned to kayleemay.com to find out why certain shoes give you back pain, what’s the best position to sleep in, or why your IT band keeps getting tight even though you stretch it all. the. time.

I am so excited to develop an online community who enjoys love, learning, and lifestyle as much as I do!

We’re having a baby!

I have been feeling closer to Mary, Our Mother, more than ever.

The other day, I read through Mary’s Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. Reading the Visitation through the eyes, mind, and soul of a pregnant woman gave me a completely different perspective on the event. Mary must have felt so nervous to explain her situation to Elizabeth. On her long journey to see Elizabeth, she likely thought, “How am I going to tell her? What will her reaction be?”

When she arrived, she didn’t need to explain anything. John the Baptist leaped in Elizabeth’s womb, and Elizabeth exclaimed, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. “

Filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, Mary went on to proclaim the Magnificat. Luke 1:39-56

The best word I can use to describe the Visitation is joy. Elizabeth was joyful, Mary was joyful, and even John the Baptist in Elizabeth’s womb was joyful.

Although my situation is different from Mary’s, (I am not carrying the Savior of the World, although I do believe our child will do great things-ha!) I was very nervous to share the news with my family and friends. I expected to answer a lot of questions. Was this planned? Why so soon?

But, as you will see in the video clips, no one asked any of the questions I anticipated. Rather, the rooms were filled with joy.

See our families’ joyful reactions in the three clips below. In the last clip, my brother and sister-in-law had devised a poem after the dinner prayer on Christmas Eve to announce their pregnancy and our pregnancy.

It’s amazing how much love and joy a new life can bring.

Mall of America

We went to the Mall of America our first weekend in Minneapolis to see what all the fuss was about. It was cooler than we expected!

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We also learned if you leave carbonated beverages in your car over night, they will freeze and explode. All. Over. The. Place.

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Moving to Minneapolis!

Married Life Part II: Our first home

Davey and I have been living in a small, one bedroom apartment north of Indianapolis. I will never forget the excitement of coming back to our cozy apartment on our wedding night, spending the second week of our honeymoon making it “ours”, having movie and wine nights cuddled up on our oh-so-fancy futon, and anxiously waiting for one another to get home from work so we can share an evening together.

My favorite spot of the apartment is sitting on our bench at our small kitchen table. The “table” was previously my desk in grad school, and the bench belonged to my loving grandparents. My grandma gave me the bench at my bridal shower.

I also love our coffee table which is simply an old piano bench we picked up at Goodwill! It allows a little extra storage without taking up a lot of space. I love functional furniture.

Calvin got a job

Davey has put in a lot of work lately to climb the corporate ladder. This rung of the ladder brings us to Minneapolis, MN!

Starting our married life in Indy has been such a blessing, and leaving our family and friends will be incredibly difficult. We are trying to view it as a new adventure; we can’t wait to see what’s to come!

We went out to dinner the other night to celebrate where all good Americans would go– TGI Fridays! We had a gift card. 🙂

Here is a video clip and a couple pictures of our celebration. We had to explain ourselves to the wait staff.

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We are moving on Christmas.

Married Life Part I: Living without television

When Davey and I were engaged, we made the socially offbeat decision to start our married life without cable. Someone recently said to me, “I have never heard of such a thing,” and I am guessing you may be thinking the same thing. Let me tell you about the advantages and disadvantages:

Disadvantage Scenario Number One: We arrive to work and our coworkers and clients ask us through yawns, “Wow, did you see the World Series game last night?” We refrain from saying the first thing that comes to mind which is, “Oh, was that last night?” and have to make something up like, “Yes, I couldn’t believe that one play.”

Disadvantage Scenario Number Two: We arrive to work to find out that tornadoes, hurricanes, and monsoons will all be sweeping through Indiana according to the show-stopping weather reports. Darn, we should have closed our windows at the apartment.

Disadvantage Scenario Number Three: It seemed as if this year, more than any other, 110% of people who went downtown for Halloween were dressed up like some television character. After asking 5 people, “What are you dressed up as?” I learned to say, “Love the costume! You look just like him!”

Advantage Number One: We have been reading. A LOT. We even got a library card. I had avoided the library ever since I was in elementary school. Unknowingly, my repressed memories of my elementary school librarian’s thick eyebrows, muted mustache (she’s a woman), and scratchy voice telling me, “Once again, Kaylee, you are late in returning your books. Are you a slow reader? We have a special class for you” was keeping me away. Now that I have faced my fears, I love the library.

Here is Davey studying away:

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Advantage Number Two: We have invested our time in cooking and sharing meals together. Davey has made turkey chili, tortilla pizzas, and something called “Davey’s Special” (I still can’t figure out what that was). I have made chicken tetrazzini, butternut squash soup, and chicken cacciatore. We cherish our meal times together; it’s my favorite time of day.

Advantage Number Three: A number of times, we have simply sat on our couch with a cup of chai tea telling stories about our days and coming up with new adventures. I truly believe we would have lost these precious conversations in new episodes of the New Girl or that one play of the World Series.

I am so thankful for our decision to live unplugged as we start our life together.

Saturday Morning

Honeymoon

Our honeymoon to Excellence Playa Mujeres was pretty amazing. We ate room service breakfast on the balcony every morning, sat by the beach and pools during the day sipping pina coladas, and enjoyed full course meals in the restaurants in the evenings. We initially felt very out-of-place in the lap of luxury–we literally thought we were at the wrong resort. Certainly the concierge had the wrong “Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt.”

On the second day, the phone in our room rang. Davey answered and was quiet for a few moments. I thought Oh great, here we go. They realized they have the wrong people. I imagined repacking everything and being kicked out to a spring break resort in downtown cancun. shudder.

They were just making sure everything was to our standards.

Um, yes. We didn’t know things could be this good in life.

Here are some photos and a quick video to recap our trip:

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