The 12 pictures of rememiscence

This post is dedicated to the memories David and I have made in our journey together so far. All these pictures are from before I started this blog, so I thought that our anniversary was a good time to highlight some of the memories and the cool things we've done.

So I'll start at the beginning. In the fall of 2004, David asked me to marry him. I of course accepted and we were so excited to get married in just 2 short months.
Here we are at our little engagement celebration.

The wedding was beautiful. We got married on December 5th 2004 at Emerald Isle Baptist Church, and then because it was such beautiful weather, we took some great pictures out on the beach.

Then after the wedding, we drove to Kure beach for the 1st day of our Honeymoon, but I don't have pictures from that. We spend the rest of our honeymmon week in Savannah Georgia. It was very relaxing and romantic. We had a great time touring the city by foot and horse-drawn carriage.

The 1st trip we went on as husband and wife besides our honeymoon was to Orlando Florida. We went to Sea World and some parts of Disney. But the coolest thing we went to there was a Cirque du Soliel production called, La Nouba. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of that because we didn't have our digital camera yet.

Then the next big trip we went on was all the way to Grand Rapids Michigan to stay in a 5 star hotel all expenses paid by our business. Here we are outside the Grand Plaza Hotel.

We also went to a few weddings of friends and families. Here we are dressed up for one last year.

Definitley one of the coolest trips we took was with our business team to Charleston South Carolina where we went sailing in the harbor. Here are a couple of pictures - one of the racing sail boats and the other of us catching a moment alone :)

We have had had many fun times with our friends in business. Here we are at last year's Christmas party with an 80's theme. I was one of the girls in the Bangles band and David was one of the New Kids On The Block.

Here we are ringing in this year at our 2007 New Year's Eve Party.

And here we are ringing in the Fiscal New Year (that starts in September) at our Hawaiian Luau New Year's Eve Party.

This picture is the last highlight of our lives together before I started this blog. So if you want to continue with the events after this, go to the 1st blog post and read up.

I hope you've enjoyed these memories and catching up to the present. I know I've enjoyed remeninscing but I also look forward to all the new memories we will make together.

Our 3rd Anniversary - December 5th

Since we were both going to be busy on the actual day of our anniversary, we just decided to celebrate around it. We went out to a nice dinner the night before, and then this weekend we had the real celebration. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures because I didnt' know I should bring my camera. But I did find a picture on the website of where we stayed so you can see how nice it was.

First of all we decided we would like to have a little "get-away" for our anniversary this year. But there was so much going on in our lives that we needed to be here for that we just couldn't get very far away, so we decided we would just "get-away" in our own town. David was going to try to get a really good deal on a hotel through pricline.com, but it didn't quite work out the way he had hoped.

What happened is he put his bid in and a really ghetto hotel accepted it, but with the nature of the website and service, you are automatically booked there and you can't cancel it. So here I was thinking we are getting away to this not so nice hotel and I wasn't that excited about it. I knew that we would still have a good time, but I was a little disappointed that it wasn't a nicer hotel.

So this whole time I had in my mind that we were going to "that" hotel and I wasn't in a big hurry to get there. David, on the other hand, knew what the real plan was. My sweet, wonderful, amazing husband had surprised me and kept it a secret that he had booked a different hotel and we weren't staying at the ghetto one!

So we arrived at the Ashford Suites instead, and when I got into the room, I nearly jumped up and down with excitement. He had booked a room with a HUGE jacuzzi tub AND a fire-place. I was very surprised!

I thought that was all, but he even went 1 step further, he had a friend of ours sneak into the room while we were at dinner and set it up with the fire going, candles, soft music and a hot bubble bath. He had also brought little chocolates and bottles of water. I was even more surprised! But it was soo nice. We used the bath last night and this morning after a big cooked buffet breakfast at the hotel. Then we went to my parents house and took Dad out for his birthday (which just happens to fall near our anniversary).

It was a wonderful weekend! Thank you so much, David! I love you! It was a very Happy Anniversary!

Here's a picture of the room we stayed in. This looks from the tub through to the bed, and on the other side of the room is the fireplace. We will definitely have to go back there.

A Night at the Theatre

A good friend of mine so graciously gave me 4 free tickets to A Christmas Carol at the High Point Theatre since she would be out of town and unable to use them. Here's me outside the theatre before going in. I met Mom and Dad at their house so we could ride together and meet another friend of mine, Amanda there. Her husband was out of town, so it was perfect for her to spend the evening with us at the theatre.

We got there in perfect timing. Just as we had given them our tickets and walked over to the door, they opened the doors, and we were the very 1st ones in the theatre! So we got to pick whichever seats we wanted. We got the prime seats of the house - about 5 rows from the front in the very center. Before I heard that you weren't supposed to take pictures in the theatre, I snapped this one of the stage before it started. But I didn't try to get anymore during the performance even though I seriously thought about it a few times.

The play turned out to be a delightful musical. All the actors gave an incredible performance. Scrooge was excellent and completely stole the show. There were a couple of really cute kids in the production as well. Tiny Tim was so sweet looking, and then there was this little girl of about 4 who sang all the songs and knew all the words. She was so adorable. I think down the road when I have kids, maybe I'll get them involved in theatre and I will get back into it too. We all thouroughly enjoyed ourselves and had a wonderful evening.