While of course, our intention was to provide updates about the wonderful married life Liz and I lead, as well as publicly thank everyone for celebrating us in October on our blog space, and now we find ourselves in the second quarter of our first year of marriage when I’ve finally got around to this update!

In case anyone is wondering, married life is pretty sweet! We had a lovely winter vacation visiting family in New Mexico, the Twin Cities, and enjoyed making our first batch of Kandace’s Grandma Creel’s sugar cookies to send far and wide as part of holiday love packages!

We also were excited to learn the running totals on the amount of money our generous friends and family raised for the three organizations we wanted to support as part of our union celebration. We are so amazed at the endless generosity of the support of love you all showed to three organizations that mean so much to us!

Each of the organizations shared that they thought it was possible that even more had been donated in our honor that they may have missed, and TYSN said it was their largest fundraiser ever! We came very close to our $1000/each organization goal we had set internally!

Tri-College NEW Leadership Institute – $734 with many more online we do not have access to for the total (we estimate over $1000)

Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN) – $1,117

Media Literacy Project – $792

Thank you all again for your support and love! We plan on continuing to use this space for updates, our writing projects and continuing to engage it as a platform for our fundraising efforts.

We are excited to share that we are heading to Cuba as part of a Witness for Peace Delegation and will certainly have some updates on that experience we are calling one of many honeymoons!