Anniversary

(picture from this year)

Since we are now married for 2 years, I want to reflect on our past anniversary!

We didn't plan to be in Philadelphia for this anniversary so really doing anything to celebrate was really difficult this year. When we got married, we had planned that every anniversary possible, we would stay at Hotel 1000 and go to a Seahawks game. Well, seeing that we're not in Seattle, that wasn't able to happen. So we may do it when we are back from Philly.

But last year, on our first anniversary, that was exactly what we did. My mom and aunt came to Seattle to watch Elyse for the weekend while we enjoyed our first anniversary. It was nice to know Elyse was in good and caring hands while we were away. We spend saturday night going out with friends to a bar/club. Stayed up way too late and were very hung over for the Seahawks game the next day. It was still a wonderful weekend. Being at Hotel 1000 and having a night to remind us of "pre-baby" life was really refreshing. Of course, we missed Elyse the whole time, and I had to bring my breast pump. So it wasn't exactly "pre-baby" life.

We did also get to have an anniversary cake from our bakery that made our wedding cake. It was soooo delicious. It was the confetti cake with cream cheese frosting. We did not save the top of our cake to eat from the wedding as I heard it's not very good and probably not very good for your health either. Our baker includes the anniversary cake into the price of your wedding cake to help couples not feel obligated to eat an old cake for their anniversary. I believe most bakers do that now, but you do have to remind them to make it a few weeks ahead of time. 

Since it was our paper aniversary, we got each other cards and tickets to the Seahawks game.

This year, we were very low key being in Philly and having no baby sitter. Although while my mom was here we had a "pre-anniversary" dinner so we could go to dinner without Elyse since we haven't been able to do that since we've been here. We dressed up went to The Captial Grill. We had planned on going to a movie(another activity that is hard with a baby) but we were too tired and the movie theater wasn't close by.

On our actual anniversary we decided we would do something more special when we got back to Seattle. But we exchanged cards, chocolates, and I got flowers. Then we went to the Melting Pot for dinner. (sooo yummy)Since it was our cotton anniversary, I got Cole a 100% cotton shirt. (and maybe something else when we're back home:) ) Can't say what since Cole reads this...

Here's some photos from last year(2011)'s anniversary!

Our seats at the Seahawks game. We didn't drink a drop that day from being so tired and hungover.

The Hotel prepared a nice little treat for us when we arrived! The truffles were so delicious!

Our anniversary cake from our baker. Wished it was bigger haha

My mom and Elyse when she came to watch her for our anniversary.

Since we didn't have our wedding video with us this year, we just watched this little clip that Azzura sent to us awhile back:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fxxz5-uE8Q&sns=em