12 months, 365 days, or 525,949 minutes= One Year of Marital Bliss

We have been together as husband and wife for a whole year!  It seems so crazy to me how fast time has gone by.

  I still remember first meeting Peter like it was days ago.  I remember him being a fun, adventurous, humorous, and sometimes dorky kid that I grew to love as a good friend.  I remember how much I loved hearing from him on his mission every couple of weeks while I was still in school.   

First picture of me and Peter.  (September or October  2007.  Clearly he didn't want to have a picture taken of him and clearly I didn't understand the concept of waxing my eyebrows...)

Me with some of my roommates. (November 2009)

Peter in Chile.  (October 2010)

I remember the first time I met up with Peter when he came home from his mission.  I remember being surprised when Peter told me he liked me and wanted to date me when he started school and I was surprised at how much I liked him back. 

First picture of me and Peter dating. (January 2011. Sorry about the bad quality.)

One of my favorites of me and Peter.  This was taken March of 2011, a few weeks before we were engaged.)

I remember him proposing.  I remember him being a punk and carrying the ring around with him for a while but never proposing.  I remember we were going for a walk and he kept smiling to himself, taking me to places that I thought he would propose at but he NEVER DID! I finally told him that if he wasn't going to propose that he should just take me back to my apartment.  I was tired of just being his girlfriend.  He explained that he had been thinking of a million ways to propose but he didn't think any of them were good enough.  I then told him that he should just ask. 

And that's what he did:)

 I remember our wedding day.  The weather was perfect but I was too busy trying to calm my nerves to notice.  I had never been so anxious in my life and I was worried that I was getting cold feet.  But the minute I saw him at the temple, all of that went away and all I cared about was him and being married to him.  The rest of the day was perfect and that has been the happiest day of my life so far.  

 

 While our first year has been far from perfect, it has been one of the best years of my life.  Not because of any events that has happened this year, (and there have been some great ones that happened this past year!) but because of who I got to share them with.  Now that Peter has been a part of my life, I can't picture the rest of my life without him.  He's an amazing guy and I think it's safe to say that I'm the luckiest girl in the world!  I can't wait to create many more memories with Peter and I am excited for the many more years to come:) 

Happy Birthday Peter!

 Tuesday was the day that Peter turned 23! It's finals week so not many people could come over to celebrate but I must say that it was a fun celebration despite it being just the two of us.  Peter said that all he wanted for his birthday was a home cooked meal (meatloaf) and home cooked dessert (apple pie).  Well this was going to be a bit of a challenge for me, seeing as I'm not much of a cook.  But when the meatloaf and the pie came out of the oven golden brown instead of charcoal black and not over cooked or under cooked but perfectly cooked meat, I must say that I was quite proud of myself!  Peter loved it and don't worry, the home cooked meal wasn't ALL I gave him for his birthday.  He's really into finance so I got him some personal finance books along with the Ronald Reagan Diaries.

It tastes a lot better than it looks I promise!  I got the recipe for it here.

I was proud of this!  My first homemade pie made from scratch! I got the recipe here.

Throw on some veggies and mashed potatoes and it was actually a great meal!

The Birthday Boy!

I'm so glad that this guy was born 23 years ago! He has been nothing but a great blessing in my life and I don't know what I would do without him.  He's been my best friend since we were both some young, immature, dorky freshmen up here and I love that he will be my best friend for the rest of eternity! I sure do love him:)

I hope Peter had a great birthday.  He deserves it!

Day of Independence and One Cute Lil' Visitor...

We love the Fourth of July!  The fireworks, the parades, the sunshine, the barbecues, and the whole community standing united along with the rest of the country to celebrate the day of the Independence that happened many many years ago.  

It all started when my older brother, Michael stopped by our place on the way to a family vacation (We couldn't go cause of work and school...like always...) and asked if we could watch his little bulldog for a few days while he was enjoying the Fourth with the rest of the family.  

Meet Lil' Mike.

He looks so excited to be at the parade...

Lil' Mike pooped after a big day celebrating.

My new nap buddy:)

Despite the chewing, the drooling, and the gassy mornings (from the dog...), he was a wonderful little dog to watch and SO ADORABLE!

We took Lil' Mike to the local Fourth of July Parade.  Peter was in it with his Insurance Company that he works for so it was just me and Lil' Mike, that is until we found out that my friends, Starla and Nicole, were watching it.  So we went to watch it with them.  I must say, as small as Peter's company's float was, I was very proud to see my husband out there, throwing candy to little kids (he tried to throw some to me, but those greedy little ones got to it before I could). 

My parade buddies!  Nicole and Starla!

The awesome Farmer's Insurance car!

There he is!

Peter and James doing their thing.

 That night, we had a nice barbecue and we admired the great sunset.  With the red, white, and blue, it looks like God's a little patriotic too:)

The Fourth is a great holiday.  I must say that it is one of my favorite holidays (aside from Christmas and Thanksgiving). I love celebrating the freedoms of this great country.  Seeing the memorials, the old veterans in their uniforms, the police carrying the American flag, and the sound of our National Anthem floating around that day, it makes me feel so proud to be apart of this great Nation.

 I hope everyone had as great of a Fourth as Me, Peter, and Lil' Mike did:)