First Anniversary!

I can't believe it has been one year since Eric and I got married! It feels like yesterday. I love love love remembering our wedding. It was so perfect. The most perfect day ever. I hope I never ever forget how perfect that day was. I love looking at the pictures and seeing how happy we were that day.  

It has been quite the year for us...difficult sometimes with being away from home, but aside from that it has been amazing. I love being married. It's still so fun for us. Before we got married we hardly ever saw each other more that 2 days in a row. The first time we saw each other more than 3 days in a row wasn't until our honeymoon! We didn't know if it would be difficult getting used to being around each other more in our every day lives, or if it would just be super fun. It was super fun, and it still is! We never get sick of each other (this is probably related to the fact that he works extremely long hours and has to study when he's home, lol). We just love hanging out together! I know we are still pretty new at it, but if this is how our marriage keeps going we are set for life! :)

We are so blessed God brought us together, and I am so thankful.

Now to the fun stuff: anniversary celebration!  On Saturday, our actual anniversary, we did this. It was awesome!!! They had a costume contest and since it was our anniversary, we decided our costumes would be tacky bride & groom.  Annnnnnnnddddddd...........WE WON BEST COSTUME!!!  Then we had to run all around downtown Phoenix in our costumes looking ridiculous. Some of the comments I heard:

"Mom, look!!!! A bride!!!"

"Whoaaaaaa look at her."

"What are you guys doing?"

"Wow. We must be missing something good."

"Congratulations you guys! Are you coming straight from the wedding?" (you will realize how hilarious this one is when you see my costume. Omg."

We also got lots of honks and screams. Good times.  

Check out these pics...we both had to be in each picture at the clues for the points to count!

 

Yes, I ran around downtown Phoenix like this.

My groom before we got started

Here we go!

Getting ready

First clue! This is where we had to go to get the rest of the clues.

First spot,  Check! Sweep's Sweets

Comics!

Clue 3: our "Rocky" impressions gave us extra points!

At the improv clue. Improv is definitely not our strong suit!

At the mural of the cats.  

Revolver Records. Points added for acting like rock and roll stars!

Tammie Coe Cakes! This is the clue I figured out all by myself!!

Royal Crowne Bar!

DONE!
Drinking a much needed beer after sprinting around Phoenix for almost 3 hours!

After this we went home, got cleaned up and exchanged gifts!

We decided to go with the traditional anniversary gifts by year, and the first year is paper.
Eric made me a hard cover photo book documenting our fits year of marriage! He added his own comments and captions and captured our first year perfectly! It was so sweet!

I got Eric a canvas from Etsy.com. It is made with individual strips of paper that have words/dates/places that are important to us on it.  then the artist layers the strips of paper to make the canvas. It is really cool! the bottom part has the last portion of our vows: "With all my heart...as long as we both shall live." With the date of our wedding above it.  I love it! (Please excuse the work we are having on the wall in the background...there was a water leak)

After we exchanged gifts we went to eat a fancy dinner at Christpher's. It was amazing! Eric had the New York peppered steak with yam frites and I had the filet with vegetable risotto. (People who know me well: I ordered my steak MEDIUM! Aren't you so proud?! Eric told me I was no longer allowed to order a steak cooked higher than medium. So, I just refused to look at the color of the meat and ate it...and it was fabulous!)

Yayyyy for year #1!!!

I love you Eric. Can't wait for so many more years with you!

Love,

Mrs. Wise