Let's try this again!

In February 2016, Frazier moved to Portland as an industrial supplies salesman with a dream to get a job at Wieden + Kennedy to make ads for Nike. Kelsey moved to Portland after graduating graduate school in July 2016 with the dream of living closer to the mountains while working as a pediatric Speech Pathologist. We met just a month after Kelsey moved to Portland when we were invited to go cliff jumping by mutual friends. We immediately hit it off, spending much of the day talking and hoping the day wouldn't end. We parted ways with no moves made that day and continued on with our respective quests in the PNW. Our mutual friend, invited us to watch the World Series that year with no intentions of kicking off our love story, as Kelsey is a Cubs fan and Frazier a pitcher in college (thanks, James!). Seven games turned into conversations, dates, hikes, and a love we never saw coming. Three years later, we have shared incredible adventures to Montana, Yosemite, and all across Washington and Oregon. We have hiked to the top of Half Dome, through caves, and on Mt Hood. We've camped in the desert, on ridgelines, and in the dense forest. We've landed dream jobs, ran ultramarathons, and adopted a fur child, Fran.

Frazier told Kelsey one weekend that he was going surfing on the Oregon Coast while she was on a long trail run with her friends. Little did she know, he was out with our good friends and freelance photographers scouting the spot he would propose the next weekend. We hiked up to an incredible 360 degree view of Mt. Hood and the Cascade range and had the place to ourselves. Frazier got to snapping pictures as Kelsey soaked in the views. The next thing she knew, Frazier was down on his knee asking Kelsey to spend the rest of her life with him and Jon and Aubrey emerged to capture it all. We are over the moon. We cannot wait to share our love of the PNW and each other with you all this coming August!

When the coronavirus pandemic hit, we were immediately realistic about the slim likelihood of proceeding with our original wedding plans. We quickly got to postponing all plans, knowing that no celebration is worth risking our loved ones' safety. However, we knew we still wanted to get married around our wedding date. On 08.28.2020, we got married in a lovely and intimate city hall wedding with just our parents and siblings. In a year of such turmoil and uncertainty, it felt especially momentous to celebrate our love and the joining of our families that day. We learned the profound value of being intentional with finding the good and letting love win. In some ways, our less conventional plan B was more "us" than we ever could have planned.