1st Anniversary

Gabe and I celebrated our 1st anniversary on October 14th, 2011! We I wanted to do something magical and make it really special. I mean after all, you only celebrate your 1st year of marriage once. ( and yes, this will be my excuse to make a big deal of it every year! "but honey, we only get to celebrate our 2nd anniversary once!" haha) But honestly, I think making anniversaries a big deal is important. You are celebrating each other. Another year still happy and in love. Another year of overcome trials. Another year looking back on the milestones. Another year remembering why you fell so madly in love with that person. I fully intend on making each year worth remebering. This year, wasnt quite so magical. haha memorable? you betcha. When you are (still kinda) newlyweds, who just bought their first home, money is tight. Even though I dreamed of something grand and super romantic- that was just not realistic. Instead, we got something better. A night of laughing so hard I had tears. The night before he gave me a "pre-anniversary" gift. He said he was so excited he didnt want to wait until tomorrow. I thought that was pretty adorable and I'm not really one to turn down presents so I gladly accepted :) He bought me a pair of earrings that I had been wanting for months! I was so excited :) It was one of those things that you really want but wouldnt spend the money to buy. Plus I thought it was cute he picked up on how bad I wanted them. Back to our anniversary night- He came home, we opened presents and headed off to dinner at the Coppermill. The restaurant wasnt very busy when we got there yet our waiter walked us past 200 empty booths and of course seated us right behind a table of 4. There was an elderly couple sitting directly behind my chair-so close that I couldnt get in or out if I wanted to. We should have asked for a different table but oh well. As we were sitting there talking and eating our dinner, this horrible smell carried its way over to us. Yup, the old man behind me was farting. Loud. The poor man had hearing aids so I'm pretty sure he couldnt even hear himself. We instantly busted up laughing. It was disgusting but I really couldnt help but laugh. What exactly do you do in that situation?? Needless to say, most of our food went home in a box. We had decided after dinner we would grab some ice cream and head up the canyon. We used to load the truck bed with straw, grab some sleeping bags and blankets and sleep in the bed of the truck all the time when we first got married. So we decided we would go to our favorite spot by the river and do just that. It may not seem grand and perfect to some people but to me, there is NOTHING more romantic than being in the mountains, laying under the stars, wrapped up in my babys arms. Once we got to our little spot Gabe got to work on starting us a fire. I felt a little uneasy. We had done this so many times and I was so excited to spend the night up there but for some reason I couldnt shake this uneasy feeling I had. I told Gabe I just didnt feel good about it and he was so sweet and totally understood. He put out the fire he had started and we packed things back up. I felt really bad that I was ruining our night under the stars but he assured me that he was fine with going back home. So our romantic night celebrating our 1st year of marriage didnt go exactly has I had planned. But, I dont even care. I got to spend the whole night with my cute husband. We laughed and cuddled and it couldnt have been better!

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Mr. Cheesy & The Fat Cat.

Reading the poem I wrote for him.



 

 sucha cutie ♥