One Year Down, Eternity To Go.

Things have been a little busy and it's taken me a couple weeks to get around to it, but we've been married for a whole year! Everyone always says the first year is the hardest. If that's true then we're in for a real treat! This has been the greatest, most fun year! A week ago, Ross and I were running errands. Sitting in the car, I go, "I think I've really grown up over the last year. I always thought that after you get married, you're automatically a mature adult. It was kind of a shock when that didn't happen!" Ross responded, "Yeah, you're definitely not the girl I married." uhhhhh "It's a good thing! You ARE a lot more mature and grown up! You're not as crazy as you were then." I love pure honesty. In all seriousness, it really has been the best year ever. Married life is just so fun!

After we got married, we had so much time after pictures until reception so we went to Olive Garden for some soup, salad, and breadsticks, and then did a corn maze. Most people shoot us weird looks and laugh when we say that, but I loved it. It was so fun! We decided then that that's what we'd do each year from there on out to celebrate and let me tell you, I was SO excited to go do a corn maze this year!

We went to Cornbellies at Thanksgiving Point. When we were looking at it online, it looked a little pricey, but they had two huge mazes and thought we'd give it a shot. It was the coolest fall/Halloween place I've ever been. They had SO much to do! One of my favorites was the mechanical bull. Though I didn't ride it, I am so excited for next year when I won't be cooking a baby. I told Ross that I WAS going to be getting on that next year. The guy operating the bull was so funny. After someone would fall off, he'd still move the bull around and charge, forcing whoever fell off to get up and run, usually stumbling and falling before they could get out.

They also had a princess pumpkinland with play structures and a princess bounce house. We liked watching all the little girls go inside the costume shop to play dress up in huge princess ball gowns and then go play. Ross is super excited to play dress up in a couple years. :]

We could have spent HOURS just walking around and doing all the little things and looking at stuff, there was just SO much to do. The maze this year was in honor of the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts. It was huge! When we went in, we turned instead of going straight through the arch, and ended up doing the maze backwards till we got stuck and decided to turn around and go back to where we went in. It was so hard and by then we were cold and ready to be done. Maybe next year we'll have more luck with the maze!

I'm sure you've all noticed over the last year that we have been TERRIBLE at taking pictures. I fully intended to bring the camera and actually take pictures on our anniversary date, but I was too excited thinking about soup and salad that when we left for Olive Garden, I forgot the camera. We're hoping that once our little girl is out, we'll improve our picture taking skills. We don't want to end up being like, "Well, this is us when we got married, and this is you when you're 5. We're not really sure what you looked like before then, because we didn't really take pictures." Hopefully we see an improvement for year 2.