1 Year Anniversary!

I cannot believe that it's been a whole year since Jeff and I got married! We've had a wonderful first year of marriage and have been so blessed by God. We did many fun things to celebrate this momentous occasion! First we went to the NC State and Florida State Football game. We have some terrific friends who have season passes and couldn't make it to this game, so they gave them to us! It worked out perfectly as an anniversary date! We enjoyed lemonade, pretzels, and some other game food. This was also a great game to watch!! There was so much yelling and shouting after NC State won!

This same weekend we were able to go to Flemming's Steak House for our anniversary dinner. Thanks to my wonderful in laws we got a gift certificate here because that is where we had our rehearsal dinner. SO YUMMY! I got their chicken and Jeff, of course, got some steak.

Thank you Flemmings, you make delicious food!

On the actual day of our anniversary we took an anniversary picture. We're going to continue this tradition because it will kind of show a window back to our wedding day.

For dinner I made homemade chicken marsala with sauteed asparagus. YUM! I think this is our favorite meal. And of course, we had to use our pretty china to eat this meal on!

We also had some cake! The cake on the left is a NEW cake that we had made for our anniversary. The cake on the right is the year OLD cake that has been in the freezer for way to long. We wanted to play it safe, which is why we got a back up cake. We first shared a slice of the original wedding cake....surprisingly it was actually yummy! It did have a hint of freezer burn, but overally pretty tasty considering it spent a year frozen!

As you can tell, we liked the new cake better than the year old one.

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