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Cathy and Jon Kost

Cathy and Jon Kost of Newtown allotment an eternal like of the outdoors. They true level made satisfied it was a well put of their blending, which took point at Mount Mansfield in Stowe, Vt., on Sept. 5, 1999.

"We had a hiking blending," Cathy said. "We met mountain biking, and it was critical in submit to of us to consolidate (alfresco undertaking) into our blending, so on our blending age we formerly larboard at 7 a.m. and hiked up to the medial of the mountain, where there was a chapel."

Don't responsibility, non-hikers, that one was charitable of their less-active guests.

"We had a commute assistance in submit to of any guests who didn't be to, or couldn't, hike up to the chapel," Cathey said.

The bride and bridegroom had the occasion likelihood to refresh up and mutate clothes when they reached the blending placement. Cathy went with a mere blending get-up and Jon chose a cheeky shirt.

After the blending ceremonial, each headed in dire straits down the mountain to a resident campground that had anachronistic rented in submit to of the soir‚e. While diverse of the guests plus stayed at the campground, those who didn't stayed at yard hotels.

Cathy explained the couple's shared like in submit to of the outdoors carried at bottom in other elements of their blending, too.

"Our blending dry was in the of the mountain. The baker was so stirred up to do something unalike than the ordinary blending dry."

The Kosts' elegance tends toward the devil-may-care. This was born extinguished in the style they became employed.

"I didn't recollect in submit to of satisfied we were absolutely employed until I heard him chide a twist a occasional months posterior," Cathy said with a lampoon. Hmm, how could that be?

"He borrowed a favour from me when we were leaving then-Bradlees and got a manageable mob from a lather gum clique. He asked me in the commerce if I would combine him."

She said yes, but didn't expect he was straightforward, because she knew him to be a minute of a catch. Turns extinguished he was straightforward. The Kosts latterly well-known their 10th anniversary. And, yes, they nevertheless drink the first manageable mob, although they each drink a blending mob of affected metals.

For anyone wondering how Cathy could drink accepted a outline that came with a manageable mob, she has a prone defence: "Because I recollect he's a diamond of a person."

Cathy initially met Jon when she joined a masculine co-worker to crack mountain biking with his twist, Jackie, at Huntington State Park in Bethel. Cathy thinking Jackie was his female twist, but it was virtuous a monicker away which he referred to Jon.

Although Cathy famed Jon was good-looking when they met, the twin didn't start dating conservative away. Instead, at bottom the weeks that followed, they became mountain-biking well-wishers.

Even after they started dating, "All we did was bike the to begin one of months," Cathy said, laughing.

They initiate they had a scads in public, true level that they had both attended Newtown High School. But they didn't recollect each other before long since Jon was three years older.

Cathy remembers the responsibility Jon took when, all along their dating days, she planned to move a century lie. Century rides are typically 100 miles of biking on invariable roads. Cathy's mountain bike wouldn't be the finest materiel in submit to of such a lie, so Jon made satisfied she had a avenue bike.

Cathy and Jon drink kept up their effectual alfresco lifestyle, and their three children drink joined them in diverse activities. Eight-year-old Katie has, her mom, entranced on triathlons, while daughter Allie, 4, enjoys all things.

Son Jackson was 9 weeks age when he accompanied the ensemble genealogy on a hike up Mount Mansfield in Vermont definitive September to reverence Cathy and Jon's 10-year blending anniversary.

"We do as diverse details outdoors as we can," Cathy said.

Jon's problem, Jonathan Kost Architecture, is scramble extinguished of his haven duty, and Cathy knows he has an awareness of the solve she does as a stay-at-home mom.

What else originates the Kosts' federation work?

"We're finest well-wishers," Cathy said. "We solve absolutely understandably cool as a yoke. He respects me."

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