First Wedding Anniversary: A Piece of Cake

 

 

 

 

Let's start off by stating that our first year as husband and wife was more than amazing.

It really was. 'First year is always the hardest' says everyone. Not saying it can't be but for us, it really was better than I ever could have imagined.

 

We spent our first year spending a lot of QT with each other.

Aaron and I never watched more movies & TV shows in a whole 11 years together than we did this one year. It was great. We took a few vacations, spent weekends with family & friends and weekdays at home cooking dinner, doing laundry & cuddled up on the couch.
Life is usually in the fast lane for us, but this year was about me & him.

 

Take a moment to enjoy our photo session with tradition.

 

 Eating the Cake

 

 

 

I can honestly say our cake was just as tasty as it was one year ago.

The wine we toasted with was a bottle brought down from Long Island, NY

to have waiting for us in our room when we arrived on the night of our wedding day.

 

 

We played scrabble in the since of describing our first year.

 

 

'When thinking of Jessica & your first year married to her... what comes to mind?"

 

 

 

as sweet & hopeless romantic my husband is not...

he puts "Earth".

 

If you've ever seen the movie Couples Retreat you will understand.

Thanks honey.

 

&& as the same questions is asked to me...

 

 

&& then Aaron gets excited and starts changing his ALL up.

 

 

 

Papa T is who my husband calls himself when trying to be big & bad around the house.

 

 

We wrote messages to each other && never saw them until we

received these pictures (in which were waiting for us when we go trip.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

&& ending our photo session on some dandelion love♥

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love him more everyday.

 

(Actual trip recap WILL be coming soon) 

 

 



growing old only sucks for bananas

{taken after his birthday dinner at Outback}

Happy Birthday Love!

This post is one day late. Oops! But since I never finished my "shout out" to my amazing husband on our anniversary, I figured I'd at least let him know on his birthday how much he is he means to me. This day,  {10.10} is always a day I look forward to.  It's almost as if it's my birthday - I always feel so blessed which is why I make it a big deal to celebrate. {any birthday}

28 years of life, 14 years of life with me. Every year gets better.

Clique? Yes. But it's so true.  So here it goes. Pure Cheese.

Aaron,  you are my favorite person, place & thing.

You are the  best part of my morning {even though I totally am out of it, no joke}

the best part of my work day {your random calls & sing-a-longs are never old which is why I never delete you VMs} and most of all the best part of my night. You will never know how truly special you are to me, even if I try to explain with my cheesy words.

God is amazing for keeping you around another year. I will forever be thankful && always grateful he gave me you. Okay... I know, I thought of Blake & Miranda too.

But really. Outside that song, I am not trying to get cheesier but you really are the best gift of my life. Why we are on cheesiest I'm going to end my post with

the words of Jerry McGuire, "You complete me".

You are the  best thing -

Xo, J

... just dropping in to say HELLO! Xo

I'm alive. I promise.

The truth is...

I am slamming busy. I FINALLY received that top notch promotion

I've been trying to move up to for a year now && this is what it has me doing....

Yes, I am THE agent of my own store.

If you live close, come see me. You now have my office number.

I've waited for this for SO incredibly long.

Remember all those times I've said, "I should be fired..." yeah well...

I have NO time to be fired now. I am steady paced and non-stop ALL.DAY.LONG.

They are getting their moneys worth. I am getting my moneys worth.

We are also packing up the house STILL trying to get everything squared away

for our big move.

Buy a house is .... well it was super easy but has turned into a little bit of a

progress. Aaron and I are MORE than ready to be in our new home.

We close in a few weeks. Mid October HOPING for sooner.

If I could get these people moving we'd be in there next week.

Let's just say my entire house is packed except big furniture, my kitchen for the most part, && our bath/bed room.

Our house is empty. BOTH of them. Maddie Belle Davis house is

more than ready for our company.

I can NOT wait to share all the FUN STUFF I've started buying for

this beautiful home of ours.

You'll love it.

I promise, no for real this time...

I promise to get back on track. Finding balance seems to always be my issue.

But right ... work MUST have my time.

Ohh.. && we had a WONDERFUL first anniversary.

IT.WAS.PERFECT.

We did NOT get to go to Destin {insert sad face} due to Hurricane Irene

&& my Aunt having complete heart failure. Yikes! HUGE scare.

She is well && her recovery was a miracle.

Thank GOD, the man above for everything he does for us.

Aaron and I took a random...

&& I mean RANDOM trip to north Georgia.

Antiqued Shopped, Hot Air Balloon Festival, && even ended up

hiking a mountain {never.again!}, visiting a Safari && learning ALL about

butterflies && nature.

No... we were NOT on 4-H camp.

It was better than I could have ever wanted it to be.

I miss you ALL && would love to hear from you.

But I gotta go now as I get back to work.

Love you. Mean it.

Tootles.

A visit from life, love & puppy prints - HELLO Carolyn!

 Well hello there! :)

 I'm Carolyn, and normally I blog over at life, love and puppy prints. 

However, today I'm taking over Stilettos and a Fishing Pole! 

As you're reading this post, Jess and her man-child husband Aaron will be enjoying their anniversary trip in Destin.

Can we say JEALOUS?!?!?!

I'm so excited for Jess and her husband, and so glad that they're having a blast celebrating their one year... but I have to say admit...

It makes me SO EXCITED for our one year anniversary trip! 

 Jake (my handsome hubby) and I were married on September 30th, 2011 in downtown Saint Paul, MN.

It was one of the BEST days of my life, and I'm so excited to celebrate the anniversary of such a special date!

That's right! In about a month - the husband and I will be flying here:

 Lake Tahoe!

EEK!

Neither one of us have ever been to Tahoe, so we're super excited to experience it all together for the first time. I've done a ton of searching online to start planning what we want to do while we're there... and let me just say. It's going to be a pretty great trip! 

Here's some of the stuff we have planned... 

Hiking

Jake and I aren't huge nature people... 

but we definitely want to go hiking and experience the natural beauty that Tahoe is known for!

Aerial Trams

Since Tahoe is a huge skiing and snowboarding area... there are tons of aerial trams to bring you to the top of the mountain. Aerial trams will bring us there, let me take pictures and stay nice and cute. Perfect! :)

Stateline

Stateline is literally the state line between Nevada and California, and it's lined with old school casinos and hotels! I can't wait to go do some vintage style gambling! Hopefully we have as much luck as Jess and Aaron have had on their many cruises! :)

 Squaw Valley

The 1960 Winter Olympics was held in Squaw Valley, and even though we're going to be there before the snow hits... I can't wait to see this place! The history and the sights should be pretty amazing!

Food

Jake and I LOVE food, and we love trying new restaurants. I can't wait to try out some of the yummy restaurants around Tahoe!

I can guarantee there will be quite a few food pictures happening on my Instagram feed!

Mansion tours

Jake and I love going through old mansions and learning about the history of the families that lived there. The gorgeous details that go into these houses is amazing, and I can't get enough of it!

 Relaxing

While I'm SO excited to do all of those things... the thing I'm most excited for is to spend time with my husband and RELAXING while enjoying the gorgeous scenery. Yes please!

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I'm going to go back to counting down the days until our anniversary trip, but first... 

I want to wish Jess and Aaron the happiest of anniversaries!

You two are an adorable couple and deserve all the happiness in the world!! :)

Turning the page of Chapter ONE...

One year ago I was on my way to take my unexpected

bridal portraits at the most gorgeous place in the south, The Ford Plantation in which I had no intentions of taking however my MOH, Danielle set the entire thing up for me. This place was breath taking.

It was one of the fun-est days of my life.

I have never felt more like a fairytale character, like Scarlet from Gone with the Wind, like a movie star, like everything a little girl dreams of - that was me on this day. It was a day I always dream off - other than my wedding day.

Truly amazing.

I was six days away from marrying the best person in this world.

I was six days from being a wife.

I was six days before vowing my life to Aaron forever.

I was six days from  the most joyful day of my life.

Today, I am six days away from our

 first wedding anniversary.

I don't think there is a word that describes how truly wonderful this

year has been for us. We've had so much fun. We've changed our "plan"

a million + 1 times. We've grown closer than I ever could imagine we would or even could... 

 While turning the page of Chapter One,

I am here to announce...

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We are buying THIS house....

We are SUPER excited ♥

In contract && close mid-October!

Whoop-Whoop!

Happy FIRST year to us!