Happily Ever After II: The Sequel!

As of last Wednesday, Ben and I are officially an old married couple.  We figure that after a whole year of marriage, we can now look at newly married couples and fondly remember when.    Both of us spent the day at work but since I got off a couple hours earlier than he did, I took the opportunity to attempt making a pie, something he had been talking about for a few weeks.  Ironically, this made me about forty-five minutes late picking him up.  He joked that I did it on purpose so that he would have time to buy me flowers after work, to make it look like he was more on top of it.  I have a very good man.

In addition to flowers, chocolate, and a card, Ben decided that, since we had escaped without having our honeymoon car decorated (with the exception of a handful of sticky notes on the back windshield -- thanks, Sam & Sarah) that we should make up for it on the anniversary.

I asked him to make sure to make the '1 year ago' part obvious, since my looks implied either post-marriage or a long-postponed shotgun wedding. ;)

After having celebrated with take-out and a not-so-stale-as-we-thought-it-would-be cake top, I decided to go through our pictures and share the year in retrospect:

August 2012 - Married 1 year

July (or maybe 1st of August) 2012 - All dressed for the reunion with Ben's family that we're so sorry to have missed (love you guys!!!)

April 2012 - Hiking trip to Zion's Canyon, just after graduation.

Probably February 2012? In our first little apartment together.

December 2011 - decorating our first Christmas tree together.

August 2011, the day it all started.

It really doesn't feel like that was a whole year ago, but we've both been saying since our second or even first week of marriage,  that it feels like we've always been together.  Time is funny like that, I guess.  So, a year of monthly rent, crazy work schedules, car repairs, homework, transient morning sickness, and "look, Caitlin, look!  We always look at pictures of space nebulas before we eat pie!" later, we're still enjoying happily ever after.