Our First Anniversary

Why it takes me so long to catch up on blog posts I will never know. I guess I'm just enjoying living life that sometimes I just forget to take time to document it in one of my favorite ways!

Sunday, of course, was our first anniversary. <3 p="">
We didn't have a whole lot planned, but we did stay busy, yet relaxed at the same time!

I started the day with coffee in the only mug that seemed appropriate...these fantastic favors from our rehearsal dinner!!

We went back to one of the main locations of our wedding weekend: The Berkeley Hotel (and happened to quickly and randomly see one of Matt's groomsmen, Jesse, as he was leaving the hotel with another of his and Matt's fraternity brothers!).  We had breakfast at The Berkeley, just like we did the morning after our wedding. Just in case you haven't read any of my wedding posts, Matt's parents hosted the rehearsal dinner at The Berkeley, the entire wedding party got ready there, and Matt and I stayed the night there after the wedding.

As we ate, of course I kept bringing up, "...I can't believe it's been a year. It just really doesn't feel like it!" Our whole meal was delicious, and, since you get to choose your seat, you know we sat at the same table right by the window.

After breakfast, we headed down to Williamsburg to Yankee Candle (didn't buy anything), the outlets (again, didn't buy anything), and to The Pottery (spent about $3 on us, and also bought a gift). haha. Didn't end up being as successful of a trip to Williamsburg as we planned, but it was still enjoyable. Oh, and we also saw Santa shopping at Yankee Candle. No, really, it was the Santa that sits in Santa's Workshop all day :)

Once we got back, we were trying to figure out what to do for dinner. Only one thing seemed appropriate: Roma's. Since we didn't get to each much of Roma's at our wedding reception, we made up for it this year, even though we got something completely different! haha.

After dinner, we did one of my new favorite things we do, which is going for an evening walk. For exercise and recovery reasons, I love doing this on my days off from running.  We usually walk about 2-2.5 miles when we go, and it's just very enjoyable!

Of course, to end the night, we cut into the top layer of our cake and had the pink champagne flavor I've been waiting almost two years to eat now!! (We chose our flavors in July 2012, and I knew I wanted the top layer to be pink champagne--my favorite of the three flavors we had--to be sure we had it on our anniversary, in case we didn't get it at the wedding!)

(you really can't have cake without ice cream...just saying!)

All through the day, I would randomly say, "At this time, exactly a year ago, we were in the middle of our ceremony!!" or whatever it might have been at the time!

So, now that we've been married a year, what are we going to do??

WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!

That's right! In two weeks, we'll be in Florida hanging out with Mickey and Minnie, Elsa and Anna (if we're lucky), Woody and Buzz, and whoever else we can find! We've anxiously been saving and waiting to decide on where we'd go, and we can't wait to celebrate our first anniversary in the place where everyone's a kid again!

Love List

If you've seen Frozen, you can't help but sing along when you hear "Let it Go." Even if you still haven't seen the movie, you've probably heard the song enough times now so you also know it by heart. Anyway, my mind must be telling me that I lovvvvvve this song, because I literally woke up every day this past week SINGING IT IN MY HEAD. Every. Day. The same part. I don't know why. Until today....when I woke up with "Love is an Open Door" playing on repeat in my head. I don't get it. I guess Frozen really is the best movie ever made!

Jimmy Fallon--he's been my favorite for forever. Conveniently, my second favorite is Seth Meyers, so when Jimmy moved to the Tonight Show, you KNOW I was thrilled that Seth would be on Late Night! Anyway, Jimmy Fallon has these HILARIOUS segments called "Ew!" and if you haven't seen one, please do yourself a favor and go to this YouTube channel now. I promise you will laugh! Here's one before you head over to the link!

The Tacchino Salad at Roma's is my new go-to meal. I LOVE it. I tried it several weeks ago, just for something completely different from what I usually get and I couldn't believe how tasty it was! I laugh because it's presented just slightly differently every time, but always tastes just as good! The salad is mixed greens, turkey, red onions, tomatoes, candied pecans and dried pecans. It comes with a balsamic vinaigrette dressing that I really don't care for by itself, but it goes wonderfully with the salad!

For those that know me well, you know I hate birds! Have you ever seen the movie, The Birds? If so, that's the reason I don't like them, ha. So, if birds keep their distance away from me, I'm good.

Anyway, today, I saw not one, but FOUR dead birds. One while cutting grass at church, one in the floor at Lowes, and two in the streets while I was out on my run. I felt so bad for the little things, so, even though I don't like birds, they'll temporarily be on my Love List, just for sympathy reasons...haha.

I knew that there was a parody book of The Hunger Games, called The Hunger Pains, but did you know there's also a parody movie out? Yep, it's called The Starving Games. We randomly came across it on Netflix. 

We intended on finding a Disney movie to watch, and that's what we ended up with. ha!

For the most part, it was pretty funny. Then, there were those moments when you're just like "really?!" I know I blurted out "Oh....Em....Gee" several times, just because I couldn't believe some of the things that were included in this movie. I don't want to give too much away, but there were characters from random movies, some of who's last names may be Potter, Weasley and Granger, amongst others. Even a couple cartoon animations, too.

Now, I will say, given this is a parody, some things were definitely exaggerated, and just flat out gross. I couldn't even watch at some parts. But, I have to give credit where credit is due...we saw it on Netflix and HAD to watch it.

Our Wedding: Wrap Up

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but today ends this six and a half week marathon of daily blogs about wedding details & wedding pictures.  However, that doesn't mean there won't be any more posts about the wedding in the future!

I certainly do have more wedding related things to blog about, but, I also have completely filled in the calendar through September and part of October with other fun things I want to blog about and share.  For instance, no one has even seen any of our pictures from Jamaica yet, other than the few on my phone!  Those will DEFINITELY be coming soon :)

So, today's post is just to wrap up all of the wedding posts and thank everyone again!

Here is a list of all of our big vendors:

Our Wedding: Reception - Food, Game, Toasts, Cake, Tosses and Last Dance

For our dinner at the wedding, we chose a caterer, who I personally think is the best!  We thought, "who better to cater our wedding than our favorite restaurant?"  So, we had Roma Italian Restaurant for dinner {and the appetizers during cocktail hour!}.  For dinner, we had Caesar Salad, Chicken Parmigiana, Baked Ziti, Mixed Vegetables and, my favorite, rolls!! Their rolls are my favorite!  {At cocktail hour, we had Mozzarella sticks and Bruschetta!}  For drink choices, we had water, tea, and pink lemonade!  I didn't get to eat that much, but what I had was delicious! 

The buffet line wrapped around and went in front of the head table, which at first, I wasn't excited about.  I didn't really want people constantly in front of me while I'm trying to eat, but by the time the reception was over, we were SO glad that's how it ended up working out!  We got to see EVERYONE come through the dinner line!  This helped a lot because we weren't able to make it around to all of the