Our First Anniversary

And yes. It was indeed over a week ago. :) But I'm just now getting to show you some of the fun we had! And oh my word - I have a story for you. Listen to THIS.

So we both took last Monday off work so we could celebrate our ACTUAL anniversary. I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't mind celebrating on another day - as long as there is ALSO a celebration on the real day. And you only get one first anniversary, so I wanted to do it right!

We woke up in our hotel and didn't have to check out until noon {YAY!!!} so we decided to just have a leisurely morning. We'd get ready slowly, have breakfast {aka leftover donuts} in bed...etc. So I went into the bathroom to get ready and Ryan made his way around the room, preparing coffee and getting out the donuts. He'd gone to Dunkin' Donuts the day before and gotten 6 donuts. We ate 4 {between us, not each} before we left for the game and put the last 2 back in the box for Monday.

The door to the bathroom opened and I saw a donut being held above the shower curtain. He said, "Hey, did you take a bite out of this donut and put it back?" Ummmmm why would an OCD girl do that? I said, "NO, did you?" He did not.

Oh yes. You're reading the story correctly. Some unidentified person was in our room at some point and ate a bite out of our donut and put it back.

As you might imagine, we were not entirely {at all} amused. Ryan took the box to the desk to report it and they offered him a a refund on donuts - IF he could produce his receipt. That was it! No replacement breakfast to our room, no other compensation, nothing. We had loved our hotel so much but suddenly - NOT so much. We immediately finished getting ready, gathered up all our stuff {because we were NOT leaving anything unattended again!} and checked out, really disappointed in the outcome of that hotel stay!

And as a plan B, we went to the bagel shop across the street for a new {delicious but much more expensive} breakfast.

After we finished up, we said goodbye to our downtown home for the weekend and headed for....

...a Christmas Tree Farm!! I'd found one between Indianapolis and home, so we went in search for our second ever live tree!

At this farm, they drive you back to the tree lots in a haywagon!!

We made it back to the lots and went in search of the perfect tree...

And we found her!!

We named her Ariel, and after we bought her, we went to Red Robin for a late lunch/early dinner. Red Robin was where we ate dinner on our first date!

Then we headed home to rest - and have a photo shoot! But you already saw the photo shoot part.

I wanted to do this, since we'd not been able to do this on our wedding day:

And then we opened our presents!

Ryan found a card with Carl and Ellie from Up on it. I cried. We ARE Carl and Ellie, so it's the perfect card.

And for my present, he gave me a beautiful canvas print with our names and wedding date on it - and a poem about spending our lives together. I LOVED it.

And I'd gotten him wall art too! A Subway Art print that recaps the activities of our first year.

We didn't save any of our wedding cake, so we bought cupcakes and ate those while we watched our wedding video!

Thank you, Love, for a wonderful anniversary!!