1 Year Toward Forever

1 Week ago from today Nate and I celebrated our first anniversary! (I know it's a little late but I didn't have a blog back then!)It's crazy how fast time flies and it seems to have gone even faster since we got married and I know it will continue to speed up through the years, especially once kids join our picture! We decided to spend our anniversary in Vegas. It's kind of a random place but we wanted to go somewhere we could "get away" but that we could also drive to. Plus we got a good deal on a hotel! We headed down on Thursday the 12th and came home on Sunday the 15th which was the perfect amount of time to spend down there - we started running out of things to do except walk the strip, which is a good work out by the way!!! Thanks so much to both of our families who watched our little one while we were away and taking such good care of her.

This last year has been amazing! It has been full of ups and downs, exciting times and not so good times, and definatley a lot of firsts! But the best thing about everything we have beeen through is that I have had my best friend and the person I love more than anything by my side - supporting me, loving me, cheering me on and celebrating with me. It's amazing how your definition of love changes after you get married, for the better! I think I speak for both of us when I say that we have learned a lot this past year. A lot about each other and ourselves. We have learned how to deal with eachothers quirks and how to compromise on the way we do things. We have known each other for about 5 1/2 years now (we dated for about 4 1/2 years, although part of that was me waiting for him on his mission, which I totally count!) and I feel like I have come to know him better in this last year than those other 4 1/2 combined! Some of the firsts we have had together are firsts of all the holidays - 1st Thanksgiving, 1st Christmas, 1st Birthdays ect. We also got our first house in October and our first baby in December!

We have been able to accomplish a lot this first year and have many more things we wish to accomplish or at least start working on this coming year! Thank you so much for a wonderful first year and I look forward to spending many many more with you. I love you so much!



For our anniversary Nate got me the last band for my ring! He even surprised me with it. I took my engagement ring and wedding band in to have them saudered together and was supposed to pick it up on a Wednesday (about a week and a half before our anniversary). Shane Co. called me on Wednesday, the day I was to pick it up and informed me in a message because I couldn't answer my phone at the time that they had run out of sauder. The lady said they would be getting more in on Firday night and that my ring would be ready the next Tuesday (3 days before our anniversary). I thought it was a little strange that they would run our of sauder but figured crazier things have happened before! I didn't really mind as long as I would have it back for our anniversary! I had things going on Tuesday night after work so I wasn't able to pick it up. I thought it would be easier to just pick it up on Thursday morning on our way out of the City. Nate called me on Tuesday and said that for some reason Shane CO. had called him instead of me to inform us that my ring was done and that I should go pick it up after work. I told him about my plan to get it the next morning on our way out and he insisted I go today so we didn't have to worry about it. I thought he was crazy! How long could picking up a ring really take and it was more on the way than it would be for me to get it that night on my way to school. I decided to just go with his suggestion and went to get it! When the lady took it out of the envelop and then the paper it was wrapped in, she held it up for me to see and asked if it looked okay! Much to my surprise there was not only the one band I had brought in but there were now two on my ring! I couldn't help but smile and all I could say was "It looks perfect!" I was so suprised and excited! I learned after picking it up that Nate had gone into the store on Wednesday (the original day of pick up) and pick out the band and aked them if they could add it. When they said they could he asked them if they would call me and pretty much lie! I was surpirsed that he could get them too! He also was so insistant on me picking it up the day before we left because he didn't want to be there with me when I got it. What a stinker! Thank you so much for a wonderful surprise and a great 1st anniversary!!!