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Today was our wedding anniversary...two years ago I married the MOST AWESOME MAN EVER!!!!!

...seriously he's like everything awesome, rolled into one. More awesome "than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk put togther."

anyways...

 One year ago today we went for a walk at the beach and took cellphone pictures ("1" for 1 year...)

 Today I had two exams and we went out for dinner at Bon Rouge (quite possibly the prettiest restaurant ever, definetly the prettiest patio ever.)

Us in our kitchen, obviously not Bon Rouge, our kitchen isn't that pretty, I know, you can tell me, it's ok...

...and then we took terribly executed self portaits while cracking open a bottle of champagne!

Love times infity plus one!!

Proud wife

I am so00OOoo0o proud of my smart, talented and super-handsome husband. He just recieved early acceptance into the teaching program he applied to! Over 100 apply, they select 30, he was one. YAY!

That is all.

Dear husband,

...you are so crazy brave that it baffles me. How you can get up in front of an audience of people (innately judgy people!) and do anything, let alone try to play a complicated riff or recite memorized lines, is beyond me. (Maybe it's just cuz you're awesome?) Anyways, I love you, I am proud of you, break a leg.

Marriage

"The point of staying married until you die is to have a witness to your whole life, to the meaning you built. In the end, you can look at your spouse and say: Somebody knew me—and I knew them." -Rachel Combe (Elle Magazine)

Last year I remember laying in bed, reading an article about marriage in a magazine. I remember coming across a quote that I loved and that really struck a chord. I even read it out loud to Andrew. A few months ago I thought about it and went to find the magazine so I could read it again. I looked in every magazine I had around the house and could not find it. I realized I must have recylced it. Today I decided I was going to try to find this article or this quote online. Thank Google, I did. The article is called "Till Whatever Do Us Part" by Rachel Combe and it was from Elle magazine. You can read it here: http://www.elle.com/Life-Love/Sex-Relationships/Till-Whatever-Do-Us-Part/Has-America-become-too-blase-about-divorce-Read-More-on-Love-and-Relationships-on-ELLE.com The context of the quote was this:

       "Yes! I thought, Fuck happy. The point of living isn’t to be in a perpetual state of fairy-tale ecstasy; it’s to find the meaning of life, the meaning of your life. And the point of marriage, I think, is to create meaning, with every happy and sad memory, every hardship overcome, every kind act, every moment of acceptance, every triumph (Gore will likely never get to have another wife watch him win a Nobel Prize), every child, grandchild, pet, and friend you accumulate ­together. The point of staying married until you die is to have a witness to your whole life, to the meaning you built. In the end, you can look at your spouse and say: Somebody knew me—and I knew them."
-Rachel Combe (Elle Magazine)