The weekend before our anniversary, we hosted our parents for our annual anniversary dinner. It’s a tradition we started on our first anniversary. Here is an explanation, taken from a post I wrote in December 2008.
In honor of our first anniversary, we hosted our parents for a nostalgic celebration of the wonderful wedding weekend that they had blessed us with now one year ago. We are so grateful to them not only for that most beautiful and perfect time of celebrating our marriage with our family and friends, but for continuing to shower us with love and support. We had the wedding of our dreams—so far beyond what I ever could have imagined—and we are so fortunate to have begun our life together in such a special way. Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts :)
It’s really fun to have them over, and we try our best to make it as fancy as we can. It’s such a great time of year to have company because the house looks really magical with the glow of the Christmas lights and the smell of the pine tree. This year for dinner we had rib-eye steaks, three cheese risotto and bacon-wrapped green beans. It was all delicious, if I do say so myself! I tried to set a nice table, even putting out our cloth napkins that we probably haven’t used since last year’s dinner!
We interrupted the very end of dinner to tune in and watch the Heisman Trophy announcement (OK so maybe the dinner wasn’t all that fancy after all). What a great day to be a Baylor Bear!!
And nothing wraps up an anniversary celebration like a good old fashioned photo slideshow! Cheesy? Sure! But also really fun to watch and reminisce? Definitely.
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To celebrate our anniversary, Kolby and I spent a weekend at a hotel nearby and went to nice dinners and had a date to the mall on Saturday to take care of all of our Christmas shopping. We even wrapped everything back at the hotel while watching a movie. It was the perfect “getaway” weekend for us, even it if was only 15 miles away! Spending time together was the most important thing. It was a bonus, though, to unload the car and see that our tree was totally full and know that we’re all ready to celebrate Christmas with our families.
1 comment:
I love your anniversary tradition of having your parents over for dinner. That's really awesome and there's no better way to celebrate any special occasion than spending time with the ones you love. The video from the past 4 years was fun to watch and your tree looks beautiful with the lights reflected in the window. Great post!! :)
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