Today is Mike and I's first anniversary! I know many of you are recent followers and may not have been apart of much of the planning process or seen many images from the day so I wanted to share a little. Also it was exciting to go through the images again...I am such a sap.
Before that though, I just a little about us, which I don't share often.
- We met when he visited Asbury and decided to transfer.
- I was TA in a design class he was taking and I thought he had an attitude so I did my best to grade him hard.
- I voted for him for Student Body president because I thought he had a great butt.
- We weren't friends till our senior year
- We were both Art Directors on competing projects in a studio course
- We didn't compete. We fell in love over coffee at midnight, photoshop tricks, and late night dance parties
- We are best friends before anything else
- I knew he was right when we went to a hockey game and an art museum in the same weekend
- We were against the idea of getting married young...I guess we blew that.
- He wanted to move back to Texas and go to grad school and I want to go back to Michigan to live plan free...neither happened..really.
- He told me he loved me just months into dating...I had been in love and scared of it for over a month before that...what a relief!
- We got engaged on Lake Michigan simple and sweet just the way we like to keep things
- We are more similar than different but we like it that way. Who else would want to talk about design and fonts as much as we each do....
- He fell in love with Michigan and I fell in love with Texas...end of story
Now a year after being married I have to tell you there is no one I could imagine having beside me everyday. We get each other and truly are soul mates. I know without him my life would not be as full of laughter, adventure, or joy. I would be less of a person and would never have had the courage to chase my dreams the way I have, without him. He's perfect but don't let him know that.
What I love the most about us is:
- random slow dancing in the kitchen
- the flowers he brings home
- our long walks talking about dreams and life
- hugs
- his laugh and how it makes me laugh
- he puts up with my shopping hunts
- he gives me a hard time when I really need it and vice versa
- he is my biggest cheerleader every day and night!
- when we go on random adventures
- that we make a killer team
- we challenge each other's creativity
- he knows me better than I do and I know him better than he does
- late night talks in bed
- tickle fights (well I really don't like this but it is kind of fun)
- we enjoy the little things together
- how we both expect the best of the other
- we learn to put up with each other's quirks (i like the bed made everyday and he likes drawers on dressers closed...i am terrible at that ha)
- we always try to see the positive together
So today for our anniversary we are shooting a wedding, which probably sounds like the dumps, but you know I think there is nothing better than seeing love in action and being reminded of it, especially on your anniversary. It inspires me and makes me appreciate what I have. On Sunday, we are then going on an adventure. I don't want to share where because we are trying to disappear but it is in Michigan because we only had 1 night till we had to get back. But I am excited for our little adventure we have no solid plans just exploring and spending time together.
Okay now I will give a few images from our wedding last year for you guys. Everything was shot by Weber Photography and I still get all warm and fuzzy when I see them even now.