One Year Anniversary!

We celebrated our one year anniversary this past weekend! We have been married MORE than a year :) I cannot believe how quickly time flies! It was one heck of a first year of marriage and if it's true what they say about the first being the hardest (I think I'll go ahead and say someone made that up), I think we'll be just fine for forever.

We started the weekend off right by going to eat burgers at The Bracken Store. That's where we had our rehearsal dinner. Grandma was in town so we all went for dinner.

Saturday was our actual anniversary. It was like Christmas all over again. I could not contain my excitement thus we were up at the crack of dawn. Since we were up anyway, we opened gifts in bed and then had cake for breakfast :) We had saved a hunk of our wedding cake and after one bite, we were both glad I had gone ahead and ordered an anniversary cake. Year old cake is not the greatest. I had gone to the store Friday and come home to set our dining room table up as if it could have been at our wedding. I found this great little wooden slice cake stand and everything!

Jesse got me two new charms for my Origami Owl necklace: a February stone and a 1. He also got me a custom puzzle as my "papery" gift.

I was so excited about Jesse's gift. I photoshopped the lyrics to our first dance song, "I Wanna Grow Old With You," onto his favorite wedding photo. Then I framed the picture with the note cards (his "paper" gift) that we wrote our vows on for the wedding. I knew we needed to do something special with them so I kept them after the wedding :)

 

We decided we wanted to do something nontraditional to celebrate so we decided to go play some paintball! We found a place in Boerne, Grandpa's, that would let us play some 1 vs. 1 and on teams. I have never played and it had been awhile since Jesse had so we are definitely amateurs. We first played one on one. This is when I had second thoughts! Jesse nailed me twice in the stomach and man did it hurt!! In total, I came home with 6 welts and Jesse had 2. Once we were on a team, I was shot in the chest and boy was that little guy ever proud of himself for shooting me. Although painful, we had a good time and left covered in electric yellow paint :)

Once we got home and got cleaned up, we went out for dinner at BJ's Brewhouse. It was super delicious! We started out with some mozzarella sticks that were awfully tasty. I had chicken fried steak and two kinds of potatoes for dinner and Jesse had Cajun chicken pasta. It was dessert that I was really excited about! Pizzokies! We had the trio: red velvet, chocolate chip, and Oreo (THE BEST ONE!). We for sure went home very stuffed!

I couldn't be more blessed to have Jesse in my life. He has certainly gone above and beyond in the husband department. Every day I feel more loved than the one before. I cannot wait to see what the next 100 years has in store for us!