One Year

Last weekend was my one year wedding anniversary!
I cannot believe that it has been one year since Jonathan and I became man and wife! Even though we have been together for over 10 years he still manages to surprise me everyday. I just love being a wife! I'm still not the best cook and I'm not the best at keeping the house tidy, but its things that I'm working on and I'm happy to work on.

Some of my favorite moments over the year:
~ Adopting our cat, Mia.
~ Our 10 year anniversary trip to Disneyland
~ Waking up next to him
~ Swimming with dolphins
~ Date nights
~ Goodnight kisses (even if they had to be over the phone)
~ The cruise
~ Celebrating each holiday as a married couple

What a wonderful year it as been!

For our anniversary we decided to go to Catalina. Jonathan loves fish and has wanted to go snorkeling again since we snorkeled in Cabo. My original plan was to get him tickets to Catalina Island as an anniversary gift (since the first year is paper). Then one day we were driving and he suggested that we go there for our anniversary. I couldn't stop laughing because I knew that he would love the gift and I eventually cracked. It's a good thing I did though because we barely got a room and tickets on the ferry when I booked it in May!

We left Bakersfield on Friday afternoon and arrived in Huntington Beach around 5pm and checked into our hotel. Then we went to Joe's Crab Shack. That place was yummy! I had this drink called shark attack that Jonathan said I just HAD TO HAVE! Basically they pour a shot of grenadine from a plastic shark and yell that that is a shark in the water. It turns the drink from blue to purple. It was yummy too.

The hotel that Jonathan set us up at was nice, except for the big group of drunk kids who woke us up from 3:00am-6:00am even after Jonathan went in there to tell them to shut up. We were really cranky that morning.

We got our ferry at 8:30 out of long beach. We got there too late to get any good seats, but we had a nice little ride over there.

On the Catalina Express



View of the casino and marina


We were lucky enough to be able to lock up our bags at our hotel room before check in. We went to a pizza parlor for breakfast(weird!) and I had Hawaiian french toast which was YUMMY! We shopped at almost every little shop and finally got to check into our hotel room at 1pm.


Our hotel. Our room was the third story up to the left of the tree. We had a great view and it was well worth the price!


I never did get a picture of our hotel room, but this is one from the website. It looks just like our room but our bed was on the opposite wall, etc.

We took a nap (since we were up almost all night and then went snorkeling! (I don't have any pics of that yet, but I'll put them up when I get the chance.) Jonathan had a difficult time. He got hit in the head with something while we were in the water and was feeding the fish peas and ending up getting bit by a big one.


I was told that I had to have something called Catalina Buffalo Milk. So, what better time than when I am there?


It was STRONG! It was rum, 99 bananas, and ice cream.



Look at my hunky salior man! I made him put it on lol


July 19, 2009- Our anniversary!
For a paper gift Jonathan ended up giving me a newspaper from our wedding day. He had saved it and mangaged to keep it a secret from me for over a year. I was impressed, it was very "out of the box". I made him a photobook of our 10+ year relationship and had another surprise for him. He also got me a rare pin of Cinderella and her prince that said "One Year Anniversary". It was perfect since that was our wedding theme! =) I just love him.
We decided to leave Catalina early because we ran out of things to do. We changed our ticket and upgraded to the Lounge (fancy!) and ended up sitting across from a really cool couple, Randy and Laura (my parents' names! lol). We went shopping at the Citadel outlets and had a wonderful dinner at Olive Garden in Burbank.



Catalina!



Waiting for the Catalina Express



Toasting with the free wine from Olive Garden! Which just happened to be the wine that we chose for our wedding!



Shara made us a mini replica of our wedding cake so we could have a piece of our "wedding cake" for our one year! It was exactly like our wedding cake! haha


I can't wait to see what the next 50 year has in store for us!