One Year

Today marks one year since the happiest day of my life -- the day I married Amanda.  The whole wedding process was incredibly stressful, but when I saw her at the end of the aisle, the stress and worry melted away, and I just had to try not to cry.

I'm a very lucky man, and I couldn't have had anyone better to share my life with.

So after supper tonight, Amanda and I took a quick photo together. The wedding clothes aren't there, but the love certainly is.

Weddings, ho!

Amanda and I attended our second wedding in a row this weekend.  This time around, it was friends getting married.  The ceremony and reception were great, and Amanda and I even had her sister volunteer to take a photo of us together!

Amanda looked amazing in her black dress, and I didn't look entirely bad either. :-)

SLP

Amanda and I are finally watching Silver Linings Playbook.  She was interested in the movie back when it was playing in theatres, but we never made it out to see it.  So I placed a hold on the library's copy and we're finally watching it tonight.  Good movie, and my full review can be expressed in five words:

Scott Pilgrim meets American Beauty.

Am Too!

See, Mom? I do update this blog!

(Photo taken at my cousin's wedding reception)

Day Four

Today marked day four.  For the past few nights, Amanda and I have been getting out and about to go for a walk for 45 minutes to an hour after supper.  It doesn't sound like much, but we really fell out of the habit over the winter and have gained weight as a result.  So, four days is a good start, and hopefully tomorrow will be day 5, Sunday day 6, and so on!

New Glasses

Amanda and I recently had our eyes tested. Mine are still fine, and hers haven't changed. But Amanda's glasses were getting old and scratched up, so it was time to order a new pair.

Here is the first official Kissing Couple photo of Amanda in her new glasses:

Garden Carnage

Amanda and I are huge Plants vs. Zombies fans.  So when Garden Warfare came out a few months ago, Amanda was quick to buy it on the way home one night.  We signed up for an Xbox Live Gold account that night, and our lives have been more fun ever since.

After we got back from a really nice walk, we started playing.  We're currently on the couch, trading the controller back and forth, and it's awesome!

Away and Home Again

I returned home from a library conference today.  It was the first time Amanda had been apart for more than a single night (the night before our wedding) since I moved out here.

It was weird.  Even though I had a full king size bed to spread out across, I stayed on just half of it.  When I tried to go to sleep, I had a hard time because it was too quiet.  I missed hearing Amanda's soft breathing.

But I'm home again, and it was wonderful to come home to her!

The Real Birthday

So, Amanda's real birthday ended up kind of disappointing.  Amanda opened her final gift from me this morning, but then it was off to work like any other day.  Then later on we got the news that our nephew is in the hospital with pneumonia.  That put a damper on the day fairly quickly.  He's doing okay now, though he'll be in the hospital a few days longer.

So instead of a birthday party or being taken out for supper, Amanda and I stopped briefly at Arby's on the way home from the hospital.  We like Arby's, but it wasn't much of a birthday celebration.  It made me very glad we celebrated early on Monday!

Another Birthday

Wednesday is Amanda's birthday.  I have to share her on her birthday with her family because it will be Scrabble night, and I won't have time to do much special anyway.  So I decided we'd celebrate a bit early.  I bought Amanda some balloons, cooked one of her favourite meals, let her open two of her gifts early, and baked a cake.

I made a fairly basic cake (I ran out of time after doing a bunch of cleaning/rearranging/running around), and then went to work decorating it.  When Amanda saw it, she commented that she liked the friendly alligator on it.

...My cake decorating skills could use some work.  Also my Yoshi-drawing skills.  Still, I thought it turned out pretty good given how quickly I did it!