About Us

John and I met over Thanksgiving Week 2003 on a Caribbean Cruise with the Naval Nurses Association.  It was unexpected, but turned out wonderfully!  I was located in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the time and  John was in Charleston, South Carolina so it made the relationship a little bit of a challenge.  We spent the next few months running up large phone bills and trying to coincide business trips to similar locations.  We also made a few trips to each others respective locations. 

John and I decided that we should try to move closer together and the Washington DC area seemed liked the best location.  I started looking for a new job and getting my old town home ready to sale. I went to the Minnesota Horse Expo with my sister on a whim, and ran into Diane Korbey and her Andalusian Stallion Fiero.  I also met a very quite 2 year old buckskin azteca gelding while there, he was very sweet and unaffected by the hullabaloo of the Expo.

So I kept trying to forget about that young horse and bring myself to sale my childhood horse Beau.  I was going to get out of the horse business when I moved to Maryland.  I had a bad experience with a trainer that almost made me completely give up on riding horses.   Diane  called me and we talked for a while and so I decided to stop in and see everyone again.  That was when I met Dia as well as visited with RIO again.  I left there that day with a deposit on them and called John to explain that I had just started the process of buying two new horses, one of which was pregnant. Poor guy did not what journey he was about to make.  

The horses moved 3 weeks before I did to a wonderful farm that was willing to take in three horses without even knowing me and with my promise that I would pay when I arrived in Maryland. Wow that was scary and John still was thinking I was crazy. I moved over Memorial Day Weekend with my little sister riding shot gun. We picked John up in Ohio and he traveled the rest of the way to Southern Maryland. If that didn't scare him off nothing would! Being in a confined space with my sister and I can be an experience, he made it without trying to kill us.

John was supposed to move to Maryland 4 months after I did,  the Navy had different ideas. We were married over Labor Day weekend 2004 to ensure that he was moved to the DC area.  Japan had come up as a possible duty station as well as Italy. I would have loved to live over seas, but keeping the horses would have been an impossibility.  We eloped on our back deck of the old farm; my sister and my father-in-law were in town so the Maid of Honor and Best Man were already present.  It made for a nice quite ceremony; however, John left the next day for Charleston, SC and we spent the first seven months of marriage seeing each other at most twice a month. I would not recommend that for just anyone, it was definitely a challenge, but it was definitely worth it, at least I think so you will have to ask John when you meet him.

The Wedding Ceremony

Since then we have been enjoying married life in the same location as well as the ups and downs of travel with jobs.  We are kept hopping, but the horses add so much to our lives that I do not know what we would do without them!!! (John agrees, but I can't get him to post to the website so you are stuck with me!)