Here we go

I swore that I would never be a blogger (my life is pretty normal and boring) but here I am! This is because we are trying to adopt :) and this is a good way for birthmothers to get to know who we are. So here we go:

My husband's name is Luke. We met in college through a roommate. We "non-dated" (I define this as not knowing if we were boyfriend and girlfriend) for about a year watching movies, playing games, lots of laser tag (he even gave me a fat lip hitting me in the face with his laser gun) and having lots of fun. He asked me to marry him after we hiked to the top of Angel's Landing in Zion National Park. Of course I said "Yes!" and we got married over a weekend in October, 2007 (My only wedding diva moment was that I refused to have a winter wedding!).

My name is Courtnie. When Luke and I got married he was finishing Pharmacy school. I had already graduated and was working as an X Ray technician. Luke's final year of school was clinical rotations and he wanted to travel all over so we did. We went to Northern Idaho (my favorite), Washington, Alaska(so beautiful and rainy), and Hawaii (so beautiful and even more rainy!).  It was a lot of traveling in a short amount of time but it was tons of fun!

Luke works for the Indian Health Service which took us to New Mexico after graduation. That was a totally different world for us. There was nothing green anywhere. Lots of red rock and dust. We did lots of hiking and Luke had a group he went paintballing with. I have a cousin that lives in Albuqurque and we went to visit them fairly often. They took us to the Balloon Festival. My favorite experience in New Mexico! 

We wanted to be a little closer to family so we left our wonderful friends in Gallup and moved to Wyoming! We bought our first home and are enjoying the adventure.

I have always wanted a puppy and since we now have our own house we finally adopted Baxter in August. He is seriously the cutest dog ever! And though he eats shoes and tissues and chapsticks, we couldn't imagine our life without him! So much engergy, so much fun.