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Mike and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary over the weekend. 



(Old fashioned chocolate cake with a salted caramel filler,

complete with the topper from our wedding cake.)



We did the dinner-and-a-movie thing on Saturday night and it was perfect – it felt just like one of our first dates.  Then on Sunday, Mike woke me up with breakfast in bed and a seriously awesome present.  He found me a window frame and sanded and whitewashed it for me.  He was going to make me a blackboard with it, but he knew I would probably have some crafty ideas up my sleeve, so he left it plain so I can make it into whatever I want… He knows me far too well :)

I made Mike a photo book of our first married year - It’s crazy looking back at how much we managed to cram into a year!  I want to make sure we don’t forget any of it.  I wrote in the card that I’d made the book to keep with the traditional gift for first anniversaries, which is paper.  I got a text from him the next day saying that, just FYI, his gift also stuck with tradition, as it was just paper in its pre-paper form.  Haha, I love that guy.

I can’t believe it has already been a whole year since our wedding day.  Time has flown so fast, but the past 12 months have been amazing.  Our first year of marriage has been everything I expected it to be, but so, so much more.  I am more in love with Mike than ever and I’m so excited to see what the next year of our marriage holds.

(The only photo I took of us on our anniversary, oops.)

I love you, babe.  Happy one year (and three days) anniversary xxx

 

A Very Late Christmas Post.

I know, I know.  It’s been forever since I blogged.

I managed to lose my camera cable the day before Christmas.  The day before Christmas, I tell you.  Is that not horrendous timing to lose a camera cable? 

I found it a couple days ago… correction… Mike found it a couple days ago… in the bag he told me to look in when I first lost it... the bag I declined to look in because “I didn’t take it there, so I know it’s not in there.  The last place I saw it was on the stereo.” 


Next time I’ll listen. 

Maybe…

Anyhoo, we had an amazing Christmas and I hope you did, too :)

Christmas kind of snuck up on us this year, but Mike and I were both pretty excited – we set our alarms for 7.00, but were both awake by 6.30, haha!  We had a busy day travelling back and forth between our families, exchanging presents and eating a LOT of food…

Those homemade presents that I promised to share with you are only a month late… or should I say, 11 months early?  But they've arrived none the less.

Moustache mugs…

I seriously love these.  They make great family photos, too – as modelled by my in-laws :)

A painting for my sister, Rach.

I forgot to get pictures of the baking jars I made for my sister, but I did remember to snap the date jar I made for my hubby…

A framed cross stitch for my friend Neva. I might just have to make myself one, too. 

And how cute is the sewing kit that Neva made me?!

And just like that, Christmas is over for another year.  I've been in denial the past couple weeks, but yesterday, I sucked it up and took the decorations off our (somewhat crispy) Christmas tree…   The mantel decorations have come down… and the last few Christmas-remnants around the house will be put away tonight.  Sniff.

Christmas has left the building, people. 

But 2012 is here and it’s shapin’ up to be a good one.

...And there are only 343 sleeps 'til Christmas....