1 Year with Allison

I don’t usually spend alot of time on here showing you around my own life but I want to let you in on today.

On this very same day in 2009, I married Allison Singleton (now Meyer) and this last year has been wonderful for me/us. We laugh when people ask us about marriage because I think we are both pretty bad at it, (which I hear is typical.) But today was a day to remeber and celebrate some of the good stuff. I want to walk you through some of the highlights of today and of this last year!

First today:

1. I didn’t have a wedding this saturday. I have had 3 saturdays all summer that have been partially open and today we had nothing!!!
So we got up at 10:00 AM!!!!

2. Most days start this way but we went to Zanzibar next. Best skim iced latte’s in town.

3. We then went to the Farmer’s Market and walked around for a bit to work up an appetite!

4. We enjoyed an amazing lunch at Centro

5. We went home and hung out for a few hours. I got some things at the store like Spiderman Fruit Snacks which have become a favorite of ours. I would highly recommend them over all other fruit snacks. We also spent some time preparing for our couple’s massage at 4:00pm

6. At 3:45pm we arrived at The Spa at West Glen. Allison and I have never been to a spa really. We have never had a couple’s massage. It was a new experience. We were ushered in and shown the “relaxation area” to “get acclimated to the spa.” I changed faster and made it to the relaxation area before Allison. When she came out we couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t think we have laughed that hard in a while.

7. We ran home to clean up a bit before going back out to The Cheesecake Factory.

8. We then went to The Switch which we both enjoyed. We snuck in Coffee #2 for the day.

9. Came home, got out our cake from the wedding which was 1 year old. Also, earlier in the day we had chilled a bottle of wine we bought when we were in Ravello, Italy.

That has pretty much wrapped up our day.

We did exchange gifts (which I am not sure you are supposed to do on anniversaries? Are you?) Allison has been wanting this awesome painting of Italy (I think) and I got it for her in July and gave it to her then, oops. I am bad at keeping secrets.

Allison got me two amazing books. One on the history of cameras. (Did you know Canon came into being because Leica was too expensive and some dude just took one apart and made a canon?) The other book is the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Birds. A TOTALLY AWESOME bird book! I love birds and this book is all you need to know to identify any bird in North America. Thanks babe!!!