Our FIRST Anniversary

Is it amazing or what? I honestly can't believe we're celebrating our first anniversary. We both agree: it doesn't seem like a whole year ago was our wedding and yet it seems like we've been married for forever. Regardless, here we are, and we couldn't have had a better first year!

Because of school (and because we're poor college students), our year celebration had to be simple and short.

Before leaving for our trip, we gave each other surprises. We each had a card, and then a little present. I gave Jed a Martinelli and shrimp cocktail to be used for a future picnic/sunset date. Jed set up on the table a bunch of cards with random letters on it. Each one had a phrase that started with the letter on the card about something he loved about me ("'O' is for our wedding day on which you looked so beautiful... 'T' is for today in which you look even more beautiful" and so on and so forth). It ended with "R" for roses, which Jed pulled out from behind his back. It was lovely and it actually made me cry, I loved it so much.



So after the presents went to the Draper Temple to do some sealings. (It is our goal to go to a different temple for every anniversary.) It was lovely. The temple workers were so cute and they loved to hear that it was our anniversary. We got to spend some time in the room we got sealed in and in the Celestial room and reminisce about when we got married. I also went and took a look around the Bridal Room which was as beautiful as I remembered. Same with the Celestial room--it was sooooo tall and the chandelier was beautiful.

Then we went to Park City. We checked into our hotel room at the Marriott, made dinner reservations, and headed for Main Street. We loved it. First of all, the weather was absolutely perfect. There was a cool breeze and warm sun which made walking around so pleasant. We also loved seeing all the cute shops with random stuff. Jed had a favorite shirt that said, "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies." The fact that it was practically empty was great, too. It made for a very leisurely walk and exploring.



Next we ate at The Riverhorse Cafe. It was the nicest place either of us had eaten at (and therefore the most expensive). The waitress even used a metal crumb brush to wipe off our table between bread/entree course. We were amazed at the exotic plating and the artistic ways that they put the food on the plate. The food also tasted amazing and overall, it was the PERFECT anniversary dinner.



We ended the night in the hotel's sauna (which I did not like) and the hot tub, and by watching the movie Salt. (P.S. Salt was good. HUGE twist. We enjoyed it and recommend it.)

In the morning on our actual anniversary, we slept in, headed home, went to Sacrament Meeting, and then we went for a lovely drive on the scooter around the temple and BYU campus.

THEN we took a break from our anniversary and celebrated Mother's Day! But afterwards, Jed and I went home, watched Star Wars Episode 6 (which we have decided is my favorite), and finally broke out the top of our wedding cake!



We cut it together like on our wedding day, fed it to each other (and like on our wedding day, all I got was a chunk full of frosting), each ate a piece, and then felt almost sick from all the frosting on that cake. But man, it was good. Oh and we made goals for the coming year. It's pretty satisfying to look back at the goals we made a year ago while on our honeymoon, knowing that we have reached our goals by making a habit of couple scripture study, couple prayer, weekly dates, monthly temple trips, and other things.

So, there we have it. One year down, an eternity to go. How exciting!