Surprise!

First of all...viewer discretion is advised seeing as I had to surprise my husband with his one year anniversary gift as soon as he got out of the shower, but his reaction was so cute I wanted to share. So...pretend there's a bathing suit on under there...

Originally Blake and I decided that we weren't going to do gifts this year, but somehow we both thought we'd be surprising the other and we BOTH bought gifts...we can't help ourselves, we both love giving (and getting!) gifts.

So here is how I surprised Blake with his...


I cut out about 10 "1's" and wrote a memory on it and what I was thinking at the time. For instance..."The first time you kissed me, The first time you told me you loved me, ect. I made a trail from the bathroom to the living room, but I started the trail out with "The first time you took me camping," and here's why...


You may not be able to see in the above picture, so see below :) He's been talking about getting a new pack since our wedding, and I was going to get him one then as my wedding gift to him, but then it got down to the week of the wedding, I thought, "surely I'll die from jitters," and everything else left my brain that week.



At the end of the trail I ended with "Our first year together," and I was so happy he didn't rush through reading them to get to the present...


Like a kid in a candy store...

Looking good, hunnie

He's like a child on Christmas...which means I couldn't have been happier with my purchase :)

Sadly on our anniversary when we got all dolled up and went on our fancy date, this was the only picture I managed to take. We had about a 3 hour dinner full of amazing conversation about the past, our future goals, things we've done well, things we've done not so well, ect. Our pastor and good friend who married us challenged us to always have this conversation on your anniversary. We took his advice and it made for such a fun night!

After dinner we made a stop by Marble Slab...here's my cute husband all dressed up

The next day (our actual Anniversary) we went to the river to let the dogs play while we hung out. Teddy had the time of his life...

He had a nice long bath after this one...

I told Blake I think Anniversaries might be better than Christmas'...and that is saying A LOT coming from me! We had the absolute best anniversary weekend, and I can't wait for many more to come!