Happy Anniversary to Us!

3 years of wedded bliss!

Set to Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am"- Our wedding song!

I Heart Weddings

Yesterday Gil & I went to my cousin's wedding in East Lansing. Oh, how I love a wedding! There were about 5+ moments where I had to work hard not to cry. Not that I'm opposed to crying at weddings, but I just knew it wouldn't have been one or two tears...there would've been major waterworks involved, that's just how I am! And I worked too hard on my eye makeup for that.

Anyways, it was a great wedding and my cousin was such a beautiful bride! Her dress was so pretty (loved the back) and the bridesmaid's dresses were so cute.

Mom & Sisters

Cousins

It was fun seeing family & getting dressed up. We had to head out early to let Laila out, which I was a bit bummed about because I do love me some dancin'. We danced to one song in memory of Kristi's mom and during that one song, Gil said "I don't like dancing!"...haha he cracks me up. At least he's a good sport.

One thing that I love about weddings is that it reminds you of those feelings right after you get married. Not that I'm not super nice to Gil all the time anyways :) , but after living together and being in a relationship for (gasp) almost 10 years, it's easy to let day to day things get in the way. Like sharing sink space when we're both trying to get ready in the morning or how Gil never puts anything away or how I constantly forget to put the cover back on the camera lens (that drives Gil crazy). Weddings are just a good reminder!

Pinterest

I have a new favorite website called Pinterest. The Pinterest website describes itself this way:

"Think of Pinterest as a virtual pinboard — a place where you can create collections of things you love and "follow" collections created by people with great taste."

I'm a big fan of using Pinterest to find great home decor images. To be honest, I don't like the color scheme that's going on in our house. We have a lot of brown going on in the living room, but not a lot of color accents. I found this mood board at Young House Love and I'm a fan of the color scheme because it incorporates my favorite color combo- red and turquoise.

younghouselove.com

The turquoise & red color scheme first made an appearance in my life at our wedding. You may remember seeing our turquoise & red details:

And by the way, I got the color inspiration for our wedding from this photo from marthastewart.com.

Since we have a lot of brown in the room already, we could keep a lot of the same things and just add to the room. I think I'm going to work off this mood board to add some "pops" of color to our room.

I think the first step is going to be painting the main floor. As of now, it's a soft sage color which really doesn't go with the color scheme. Our house was newly painted when we moved in & we haven't touched a paint brush since we moved in. Now may be the time...

So maybe my summer project will be to spruce up the living room!

Should I Listen to My Sisters?

I have an outdoor wedding to go to on Saturday. I bought this dress from Anthropologie to wear to the wedding. I showed my oldest sister and she thought it was a bit ugly. My other sister thought it was cute, but didn't like the purple bow...she thought it was a bit much. Be honest...Cute or Not So Cute??

Anthropologie

Two Years!

Happy Anniversary, Husband! Thanks for 2 great years of marriage and 9 years together (wow)!!

A Fun Day in July

I was just looking through our wedding photo album to pick some shots to order from Snapfish to put in the master bedroom. Our wedding day was awesome not only because it was our wedding day, but it was such a fun day/night!! Here are some funny pics from the wedding day that will not be making a debut in the house:

Getting my hair did, ordering Jimmy John's.


Don't worry, she didn't go to the wedding like this.

There was a lot of hairspray involved that day.

The boys decorating.

We don't have an affinity for rats. It really said "Congrats", I promise.

This is funny simply because by the time we left our reception in Downtown GR, the cans had been taken by someone. They probably needed them more than us!

Gil sat around and contemplated the meaning of his vows all morning.
The girls stayed busy putting on makeup, sweating in the church basement while the boys enjoyed their air conditioning.

This look made it into more than one picture that day. Either I just look like this or someone was really making me mad. The wrath of a bride...

The boys giving Gil and I a "private" moment to see each other for the first time that day. :)


We got married on THE brightest, hottest day in July. Taking pictures outside went like this, "1, 2, 3 open your eyes!!" We were still squinting in a lot of them.

Not too hot for this, of course.

Definitely hot enough for this though.

I was simply a flawless bride.


See?

I don't have a caption for this.

Here's a good one.

While the boys were doing this

and this, the girls were inside tending to my dress. The red flowers stained a tiny bit of my dress. NBD, although it didn't seem like that at the time!
Made it to the reception. We look exhausted already. We probably were.

Hahaha.

On top of the baby grand.


Let the dancing begin...

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Don't you love weddings?

Never Before Seen...

When Gil and I met up with his Aunt for lunch in Seattle, his Uncle Larry gave us a CD with over 200 pictures that he had taken at our wedding. I was so excited to see them for the first time and relive our wedding day! Here were a few of my faves:


The sky couldn't have been any more blue!


Married!


St. Cecilia Music Center in Downtown Grand Rapids where we had our reception


I love how happy I look!


Gil and Meem at the reception

We have a video of our wedding somewhere out there...we'll have to watch that one day!!

One Year!

Senior Prom
As 16 year olds, we had no idea where our high school romance would lead us...


Yesterday, Gil and I celebrated one year of marriage!

I can't believe how fast the past year flew by! With all the house stuff going on, we decided to have a low key day together. We have plenty of years ahead of us to go somewhere fun for an anniversary! We went to dinner in RO and then stopped by Astoria Pastry Shop to grab dessert. Gil got the Black Forest Cake and I got a slice of Carrot Cake. I don't even want to think about the calories! We would've eaten the top layer of our wedding cake, but we devoured that while sitting in a traffic jam on the highway on our way back from Grand Rapids after the wedding!

For those of you who were at our wedding, you'll remember that instead of signing a guest book at the reception, we had 5 bottles of wine for you to write messages on.

Last night, we enjoyed our "1st Anniversary Wine" with the cake! Delish!!! Thanks for all of the Happy Anniversary thoughts we received!

And now the best part:

You can't wait to untie that red string, can you??
Here it comes...

Behold the frosting, chocolate, and carrot cake-y goodness.

I wish it was always our anniversary.