One Whole Year

Robbie and I celebrated our one year anniversary this past Saturday! What a wonderful year it has been. Because we knew we'd be traveling home from Disneyland on our anniversary, we celebrated it a week before by spending a weekend in Park City. Robbie planned it all ahead and we had a lovely time. We stopped off at Cheesecake Factory on our way up and got a free meal with some gift cards we had, and then shopped around for a bit afterwards. We also enjoyed walking around the outlets in Park City the next morning. I'm loving that fall clothes are in full swing! Something momentous that we did was finish the last episode of Full House. We started from the very beginning over a year ago and it has been our go-to show ever since. I think it's so hard to find shows on TV these days that are clean and wholesome. It was nice to be able to count on good 'ol Full House.

We recently just sat and reminisced about our wedding day while we looked through our wedding photos again. We have so many fond memories of that day. It was perfect (well, not really, but after a while you forget all the little things that went wrong and realize it was perfect). I've learned quite a bit this first year of marriage. Marriage was a harder adjustment for me than I thought it would be ("Wait, what? We aren't really the same person and we don't agree on everything? We actually get bugged at each other?" Very exaggerated, but still...). I felt like my weaknesses were brought to light more than ever in my life, and I even felt like what I thought were my strengths were actually pretty bad weaknesses. It was really hard. I was having some of the happiest times of my life, but also some of the most difficult times. Now, I wasn't concerned about the state of our marriage or anything, but we both had a lot to work through, especially those first 6 months. We learned a ton about communication, selflessness, and patience. And we are both so much better because of this first year.

Robbie is my favorite person ever. He is kind, sensitive, hilarious, encouraging, hopeful, positive, determined, and completely charming. I'm so thankful I get to share life with him by my side.

Happy one year, honey!