Starting a Blog

It's my FIRST POST EVER!!!!

I’m playing along with a post I saw on East Coast Chic! Thanks for putting this together, Natalie!

I have been toying around with the idea of starting a blog since my husband and I got engaged in 2012. I had hoped to document the wedding planning process, but between planning the wedding and working on my master’s degree it never happened. Why not start now? I want to record this wonderful season of life and be able to look back on these memories years from now.

A little about me: 
My name is Katie. I married my amazing husband, Kyle, in May 2013. We just celebrated our 2 year anniversary and are enjoying life with our Wheaten Terrier, Charlie. I’m 26 and currently live in a suburb of Kansas City. We are both from St. Louis, MO (Where’d YOU go to High School???). We are High School sweethearts and graduated from Mizzou GO TIGERS! Kyle is a Chemical Engineer and spends his days designing gas plants, and I am a Fourth Grade Teacher at an amazing pilot school (a post itself for another day!). 

1.Favorite food:  

Italian. More specifically, St. Louis Italian on THE HILL. Two words for you: Provel Cheese. Oh. My. Word. Amazing. We can’t find anything that compares in KC.

2. Flip flops or high heels: 

Wedges! I can teach all day in them!

3. Favorite places to shop for yourself: 

J.Crew, Loft, Banana Republic, Nordstrom, Marshalls/TJ Maxx

4. Standard Coffee order: 

I’m not a coffee drinker. I pretty much stick with water!

5. Road trip must have snack: 

Water in my camelback, and whatever snack Kyle brings out of the gas station.

6. DIY or hire it out? 

I am so blessed to have married such a handy husband! He is amazing and can easily take a Pinterest project and bring it to life. So far we have renovated our kitchen, painted and refinished several pieces of furniture, redone most of our landscaping, and we have plans for a future bathroom renovation.

7. Top 5 TV shows: 

SCANDAL!, The Backlist, Prison Break, One Tree Hill, Friday Night Lights

8. Favorite Book: 

I love to read and can’t even begin to pick a favorite book. The teacher in me still LOVES the Harry Potter Series. My Kindle is jam packed with every genre.

9.  Favorite Form of Exercising: 

I’m a cardio junkie and have been making my way through the Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide. I also enjoy classes at the gym, and working out with my motivator, Amanda! We just started the journey into lifting weights YIKES! The gym is my happy place.

10. How tall are you?

5'4”

11. Do you try something new at restaurants or stick to your favorites?

I typically have one or two favorites that I stick with. Occasionally I’ll try something new though.

12. One make up item you can't live without:

BB Cream! I discovered it two years ago and love how lightweight it is!

13.  What's on your nightstand?

Engagement pictures, iphone, ipad, kindle, water bottle

14. What's one thing motherhood has taught you?

No kids yet!! I guess I’ll come back to this one in a few years? I have learned plenty as a teacher though…

15. Music that reminds you of high school: 

Rascall Flatts…so many memories

16. If you could live anywhere in the world besides your current city where would you live?

This is tough. I think I’d like to live in the South. These Missouri winters are tough! I have loved Nashville, Dallas, and I think I would love Charleston!

17. Tell us something about you we might not know: 

I am pretty OCD clean, but through teaching I have learned to be flexible. I love to plan and organize, but in the last two years I think I’ve been much better at going with the flow. I have the opposite of ADD and can hyper focus on things and completely block everything else out. Hmm…I am pretty darn blind and probably shouldn’t be driving at night. I guess you’ll get to know me more as I continue to blog. Stay tuned!

18. Websites you read/browse (besides blogs):

 Reece and Nichols (Real Estate Website for KC), Pinterest, I love news websites, facebook, etc

19. Morning person  or Night owl?

I am 100% a morning person! I can jump out of bed and be ready to go for the day. I love my sleep and would be in bed each night by 10 if I could.

20. Favorite Breakfast meal:

I am a creature of habit and get into a groove where I eat the same thing for months at a time. It started as oatmeal until they stopped selling it at our grocery store, then I switched to Nutrigrain bars. In the summer when I’m off work I typically do smoothies!

So tell me something about you that I might not know!