Year One

One year down...an eternity to go. So far, so good. Here are a few highlights from the year. (90% of the photos are from our iPhones, so please excuse the quality.)




One of the only photos from our honeymoon in Cancun. Tulum was definitely a highlight.



Our apartment is right on Central Park which we love! We try to spend as much time there as possible.



Even though we live on the park, we are technically in Harlem. We love it and hate it at the same time. This is one of the love moments....view from our balcony.



One of the other things we love is our neighbors. These three cute girls lived just upstairs for the first year. (Sad to say they all moved on...we really miss them!) Mary, Sarah and I had memberships to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens so we brought Christine along to see the roses.



For Memorial Day, I joined the three of them on a road trip in our new car. First stop...Falling Waters (Frank Lloyd Wright house), second stop....Niagra Falls, and final stop....Cooperstown. So much fun!



We are really loving our car and made good use of it this summer. We went on our first "couples trip" to Cape Cod for the 4th of July with some good friends we made in our new ward.



Taylor's hair got a bit crazy on the ferry to Martha's Vineyard.



Lunch in the Vineyard.



We brought our bikes and toured the island. One of the cutest places ever!



For lunch we apparently had the finest fish 'n chips on the Cape. We even got Emily, the vegetarian, to partake. Mmmm!



To train for our triathlon, we rode with a few of our friends to New Jersey.



Our second couples trip was to Newport, RI. The Cliffwalk is my favorite part about this quaint little town....beautiful ocean on one side, huge mansions on the other.



We did a day trip to Block Island. We brought our bikes once again and wandered the entire island.



The beach where Emily and I "frolicked." Don't you wish you could see the video?



The ferry ride home was gorgeous! Kind of makes me want to move to Newport.



During the course of the year, I saw various members of my family 12 times...pretty good for living across the country. During one of these times, I got to take Ella to the zoo for her first time. She didn't quite know what to think about it all.



Being a freelancer, I had lots of spare time and tried to put it to good use. One of my various projects was making onesies for Ella. We also made them at a baby shower for my friend Mary (see photo of Fish 'n Chips). They are really easy and tons of fun. Too bad I can't make a living at it.



Another major highlight of the year was going to Italy with Al and Ryan. The photos from the trip will be coming later, but I found this one on Taylor's iPhone. This was our attempt to make a homemade Italian meal. Would have been amazing if we had salt and olive oil.



Kimmy and her boyfriend (now fiance), Chris, came out for a weekend visit. We took a drive upstate and ended up at the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.



For our one year anniversary Taylor planned a weekend getaway to the Catskills. We stayed in this cute little cottage and went shopping at an amazing outlet mall...he knows me well.



There was a lake with a rowboat. Taylor quoted some lines from "The Notebook." It was fantastic.

The love of my life.