Well, we made it a year! Our one year anniversary was over the weekend. We have been through a lot in the last year, too much to recount. Instead of these horrible things pushing us apart, they brought us closer together. We've learned how to deal with each other, we've needed each other, and we've pumped each other up. We're each others best cheerleader. I mean, I'm obvs a better cheerleader, but you know... Bob's pretty damn good too.
To celebrate, we went down to Charleston. I've never been, and I was craving a beach. And Bob is typically on board with most everything I suggest. So we ordered a cake (our cake topper was misplaced by our venue after the wedding), and headed out. We had a blast hanging out in Charleston. We checked out the market, took a carriage ride, met one of his friends for drinks, and then headed out to Isle of Palms where we actually stayed. I kinda felt like I was with the Mayor. Bob ran into THREE people he knew. One from Charlotte, who we ran into walking down the sidewalk. Another from pilot training, who lives in CHS now, met us for a drink. Then when we were at dinner (try the Boathouse if you're ever in the area.. it's amazing), he saw a guy he played church basketball with in 2001 in Peachtree City, Georgia. Talk about random!! It was nice for them to catch up and say hi.
I forgot our bottle of Dom Perignon at home in Charlotte. So we had our cake and some cheap champagne in the paper hotel cups on Saturday night. Then Sunday when we got back home, we had hot dogs, cake, and Dom in crystal flutes. We're awesome and we know it.
We exchanged gifts before we left for the weekend. Neither of us could wait to give each other our gifts. He gave me a gorgeous crystal clock, which I thought was random until he pointed out clocks are the new "modern" first anniversary gift. It still makes me giggle that he gave me a clock, but it's so damn cute that he actually looked up what he was supposed to give me.
I went with paper for his gift. He received a collage-ish collection of maps of all the places we had our firsts...where we met, where we spent our first weekend together, our first I love you, our wedding, our honeymoon, and our first home together. Yes, I shamelessly stole this idea from Pinterest, but he doesn't need to know that. My plan is to frame pictures from each of those events and group it all together in our bedroom at our new house. It should be pretty freaking awesome and cheesy as hell.
As Bob's sister commented on our facebook picture, we're still smiling after one year. Hopefully all the rest of our years together will end in smiles as well :)
