Our First Anniversary!

In June Chad and I celebrated our 1st anniversary! We are extremely surprised at the ease at which we adjusted to married life. We both have said that this first year of marriage has been wonderful and it went by VERY fast. We have taken survey of our married friends and asked what they thought of the first year of marriage. While most agreed with us that it was great, others said "The first year of marriage is hardest". Come to think of it I've heard that a lot. I think what helped Chad and I out is that we lived together before marriage, we knew each other's quirks and bad habits. We had been together so long that there were no real "surprises" once we were married. We kind of just went on living like we did before marriage.

Back to the survey, most that we spoke with (that didn't say the first year was the hardest) said that the first year with a new baby was the hardest! We will have to cross that bridge when it comes!

I decided to start a tradition of taking our picture at each anniversary to document what we look like/where we are in our lives. Year One:

So for our first anniversary, Chad had several surprises lined up for me! The first of which was dinner at an amazing steakhouse: Tony's steak and seafood! It was the most amazing steak I have every had in my life. The atmosphere was romantic, the serves were awesome and we even got complimentary dessert for our anniversary! I wish I would have taken some pictures of the food, but I was too busy stuffing my face! =)

After dinner we went back home to enjoy the top tier of our wedding cake. 

A little back story: I hard been extremely worried about the year-old wedding cake we have had in our freezer. I couldn't imagine that anything, let alone a cake, could be even remotely good after being frozen for a year! So true to character, I complained and worried aloud and my amazing husband reassured me it would be fine. Here is what our year-old cake looked like after being unwrapped and taken out of hibernation

Fast forward to our anniversary night: So we got home from the restaurant and to my surprise my wonderful husband had bought a brand new cake just like the one if the freezer, down the the frosting and decoration. The same bakery used the same cake and frosting and even used the ribbon from our original cake to make this new and FRESH cake. I was sooo very excited! 

I went ahead and tasted the year old cake, I had to spit it out. It was terrible! I was so thankful for the new and DELICIOUS cake!

After cake we exchanged gifts. Traditionally first anniversary gifts are supposed to be "paper" and Chad and I tried to stay true to tradition (plus paper is pretty cheap so it fit in the budget!!).

I got the final two books of the Hunger Games series. (Which is amazing by the way)

And Chad got some awesome Science books for his classroom. He can now learn how to blow things up, but in a scientific way =).

Overall, our first year of marriage was amazing! I can't wait to experience all life has to throw at me as long as I have my wonderful husband by my side! Here's to 80 more anniversaries! I hope they are all as easy as this first one!