A Little Overdue?!? (Part 2)

Here is a recap of the last few months in pictures..... (We bought a new camera as a Christmas/anniversary/new baby gift to ourselves so I'm hoping to get better at the whole picture taking thing. We shall see if that happens or not).

I have a couple pictures of the night we took the pregnancy tests but I seemed to have misplaced that memory card. (Those were on the dinosaur old camera).

I tried to upload the video of us announcing baby to his parents but I did not succeed. So sorry. It is absoultely priceless.

Kentucky Campus

Thanksgiving 2011

Revealing baby's gender to our families

Annual Girls Christmas Party

 Before our anniversary dinner

Christmas Eve 2011

And a few pregnancy pics....

Our First Anniversary

We had a wonderful anniversary. We spend it mostly just relaxing and enjoying our time together. We opted not to go anywhere (out of town) since we're still settling in the house and have had so much other stuff going on.

We swapped gifts before heading to dinner. Here's Bailey's:

He got a fire pit and a scarf. The first anniversary is paper so I gave him a card too. (And, technically, paper could be burned in the fire pit).

My first gift:

I opened a box which contained these sheets of paper which say, "Happy 1 Year Anniversary, I LOVE YOU." He then told me that I could pick out a photo album--it will contain only pictures/things from our anniversary. Little did I know I had something else coming......

My surprise gift I received just before dinner.

The second band for my ring!!

I was totally surprised. I still can't believe he got it already.

We ate dinner at Texas de Brazil. If you've never been, go. They have an incredible salad bar and then lots and lots of wonderful meat. The house specialty sirloin is to die for. We ate way too much and then, of course, had dessert. Bailey had key lime pie and I tried the bananas foster pie. Both were fabulous.

It's been a fantastic first year of marriage. I am so blessed.

Happy Anniversary

One year ago today I married my best friend.

It was perfect and absolutely beautiful, but I am a bit biased.

I'd always hoped for a Christmas wedding and since he proposed in February, we had just enough time to plan our Christmas wedding. It was simple and elegant (in my opinion). I had a beautiful bouquet of calla lillies and roses in deep red. My bridesmaids carried bouquets of white roses and daises. Bailey's boutonniere was a red rose and the groomsmen had a white daisy. The only decorations in the sanctuary, other than what is already provided by the church, were two flower arrangements (seen below), two candlelabras, and a few pew markers.

My beautiful bridesmaids.

The guys holding me up.

A real one with the groomsmen.

My bridesmaids being silly with Bailey.

And a serious one with him.

Bailey and his groomsmen.

Playing a little football with my bouquet.

With my family.

With his family.

With all the beautiful bouquets.

I saw this idea somewhere and I had to try it.

In front of the sanctuary.

My bouquet. The lace wrapped around the bouquet was from the had my mother wore with her wedding gown. The pin on it is my maternal grandmother's--it was made with her and my grandfather's ring after their 50th wedding anniversary. These two things composed my old and borrowed.

My cake. It alternated layers--buttercream and strawberry.

Bailey's chocolate cake.

They threw "snow" as we left.

Off to change and then begin our honeymoon!

Happy anniversary Bailey! This year has been incredible and I can't wait for all the years to come.