1 Year of Marriage: In Memorium

Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary. We went on a little stay-cation (which is apparently a word now), and treated ourselves a bit, and had a really good time. It's surreal that a year ago we were on our first day of marriage, not really sure what to do, getting over the events of our wedding day! Which was a really beautiful day that I will, of course, never forget.

I said in the last post that we were staying at a four-star hotel, which I feel safe and free telling you now was the Hotel Sofitel in Minneapolis. My french class would stop there every year for lunch in their restaurant, Chez Colette on our way to Concordia Language Villages for french camp, and I have always wanted to stay there. So months ago I began searching for deals for a room there and found a great one on priceline.com. We're both so glad I did! It was a wonderful stay; the lounge was beautiful, the room was clean, room service was on time with our breakfast in the morning (I like room service. Expensive, but I think my new favorite thing).

 This was called a "Black and White" cake. The cake wasn't very good, but the toppings, chocolate, and white chocolate filling were delicious.

 All dressed up with nowhere to go. That's our favorite way.

It was no cruise, which we did for our honeymoon a year ago, but it was a very pleasant way to spend our anniversary. We brought Chinese take-out (to a French hotel, teehee), our cake, and sparkling spumante (because we don't drink much), so that we wouldn't have to leave the room all night. We're both introverts, so when we "go away," it's preferable that we have to deal with outsiders as little as possible. Last night we got all dressed up and stayed in and enjoyed our food and each others' company =)

We discussed last night what our favorite parts of our first year married were, and of course, both had pretty similar things. Highlights from our first year of marriage:

-Our wedding day, of course!

-Our honeymoon cruise to the Bahamas, a gift from his grandparents.

-Volunteering at Sonshine Festival together and seeing some of our favorite bands in concert, and selling their merch! Even though it rained pretty much the whole time and was extremely muddy.

-Okoboji family Bible camp, where he has gone every year with his family since he was a baby, and where he proposed.

-Moving into our first home together! (Especially the first month before his dad moved up... not that we don't love him! It was nice to be just the two of us together, though).

We're hoping for another nice, blessed year this year as we enter our second year of marriage. This year we look forward to seeing two of our favorite couples get married. The future E.L.'s, and our ex-third-wheel, Papa Bear, and his new fiance! We're excited to welcome them to the realms of the young-marrieds, and can't wait to see what's in store for them all.