Year One

On October 9th, Ryan and I celebrated one year of marriage.  I cannot believe it has already been a year.  It feels like we were married only a few months ago.  I'm not sure where the time goes. Anyways, our anniversary fell on the Sunday after we got back from Mexico.  Unfortunately, I had caught some kind of bug in Mexico that didn't leave me feeling very well.  Needless to say it kept us inside for most of the day. When I woke up that Sunday Ryan surprised me with flowers, breakfast, and pumpkin cappuccinos. Yum!

It was pretty chilly outside so we snuggled up in front of the fireplace and watched a movie.  Towards the end of the day I was feeling a little bit better so we made a trip out to one of the local pumpkin patches.  It was ridiculously huge! Acres and acres of pumpkins everywhere! We bought 4 large pumpkins and a few cute small ones for inside the house.

We came home and Ryan cooked up some home made chili and bread sticks and we enjoyed a cozy dinner in front of our fire place.  We had exchanged gifts earlier that day, in which we did stick to the traditional paper presents for our first year.  It was fun thinking of creative things I could give him made of paper.  I bought us 2 tickets to the Air Force Academy football game against San Diego State University and tailgating tickets for unlimited food and beer before the game.  Ryan made me this really awesome invitation to spend a weekend with him in Aspen.  He made the invitation himself and designed it to look exactly like our house with the Denver skyline in the background.  It was awesome.

My parents bought us this gorgeous hand painted pitcher for our anniversary.  I love it.. must be the Mexican in me!

So we went to the Air Force game last Thursday. We were a little late due to traffic on the way down to Colorado Springs but we still snagged a nice portion of bbq, mac n cheese, bread, and beans. The seats we had were pretty good.  We were packed in there like sardines so second half we sat in the upper section and watched the game from above.  Air Force lost, but it was still fun to get out to the base for a home game.  My favorite part was probably the F-16 fly over before the game. Three F-16s flew over the field and then straight up into the air.  We could see their after burners.  It was awesome! It's so cool to have these jets flying so fast that they go by quietly only to be followed by their booming sound.  It's crazy! We had a great time and I'm looking forward to our weekend away together!

I brought home the top of our cake the last time I flew back to Oklahoma, so of course we had to shove some in each others mouths! It was a little freezer burnt, but the middle still tasted the same.  We had a nice bottle of wine Ry had bought me when I moved out here in June and celebrated to a great year and many more to come.

Our marriage so far has been everything I could have asked for and more.  We grow stronger and closer every day and I feel so thankful and amazed that I have found such a wonderful man. I love you Ryan Billings. Cheers to us.