Anniversary One

One whole year! On Sunday, July 17th, 2011 Matt and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. We had big plans to stay at a B&B about twenty minutes away from Columbia in Rocheport, MO but in the end opted for a stay at home weekend. We are SO happy with that decision. It has been such a hectic summer and giving ourselves one weekend to just be together was the perfect gift.

Even though we didn't go out of town, we did try to do some sentimental stuff to remember our wedding day. We started with some of the delicious rolls from the caterer we used at the wedding. It turns out you can order them by the dozen and can even have them shipped!

We decided on pulled pork to pay homage to our homemade rehearsal dinner and I tried a new recipe. It was Ree Drummond's Spicy Dr. Pepper Pork.

The Shelly and Doug Chipley family gave us some champagne as part of our wedding gift with instructions to share it on our anniversary - no arguments here!

After dinner, we had our year old cake and champagne. Matt did a really great job of wrapping the cake one year ago - there were many layers of wax paper, plastic wrap and foil to get that job done. We let it defrost for one whole day in the refrigerator and it tasted like new!

We also decided to start taking a picture every year in front of our current home. In the next few years I have a feeling this home might look different. So I wanted to be able to join the memories of anniversaries with homes we've shared - as a kind of timeline of marriage. We ended up with a few nice pics, including a whole family portrait with the two beasts. This is really the best we could do. They both have their heads turned due to a car going by....but that was the only way we could get them to stop facing us!