Our First Anniversary

Today is our first wedding anniversary. :) Jim and I made it through our first year of marriage, and our sixth year together as a couple. I’m still amazed that I found someone so completely perfect for me, that I turned out to be perfect for him, AND that we’re able to put up with each other on a daily basis. ;)

We are incredibly lucky. I am incredibly lucky.

I’m writing this a few days before the anniversary, because we’re whisking ourselves away to a jacuzzi suite near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Depending on when you read this, we’re either wrapping up our stay at the hotel or we’re already somewhere on a trail, taking pictures and just enjoying the quiet. We haven’t seen much of each other over the past several weeks, so it seemed like the perfect way to spend the weekend.

We decided to shut off the outside world this weekend (no cell phones, no internet), but I made sure to pack my laptop so that we can watch the wedding. Even a full year later, that is the best time I have ever had in my entire life. I don’t honestly remember a single moment of anger or pain or discomfort that day… there are too many amazing (and several funny) memories that completely drown anything else out. It was a perfect day that started what has so far been an amazing life as husband and wife.

Today we’ll spend at least these twelve minutes below remembering the ceremony that started everything. :) If you’d like to remember it (or see it for the first time), you can watch too:

Our wedding/family site has all the posts, videos, and other happy tidbits that went in to the entire experience of creating our brand new family together. You can see details from our engagement trip, wedding planning, the wedding itself, and our honeymoon. Keep an eye on that Schnabel blog for future events as well!