Wow! It’s been a year since we got married!
Time goes by so fast. One year ago, we never thought we’d be celebrating our first wedding anniversary in Knoxville. In fact, one year ago, we still were driving the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Lilia was still in grad school, we hadn’t been to Samoa yet, and Guacamole was still with us. It’s crazy how quickly life changes.
Life has been busy, but good. Last week was commencement here at UT, so Lilia was very busy with the UT commencement website. She photographed the graduates on Wed., Thurs., and Fri., and had a great time doing it. While taking pictures, she got to talk with some graduates’ parents who were very nice, and one particular couple ended up taking a photo of us after Lilia photographed them & their son:
Actually, the building in the background is where Lilia works & the photo is taken in the parking lot we park in every day. Mark has been very busy with work, but he’s really enjoying his job. Since he started working at UT, he’s gotten equipped with a bunch of new tech things. Most notably, he got an Android smartphone and a 17″ MacBook Pro. The smartphone we bought, but the MacBook Pro is issued by UT. He’s been having a lot of fun with both of those new items 
Anyhow….
Our First Wedding Anniversary!!
We slept in (which means 8am) and made a delicious breakfast in our pajamas. Biscuits and gravy, hash browns, corn beef hash, coffee, and mimosas! Ooooh, it was soooo good.
After breakfast we got dressed and ready for the day. We headed out for about a 3 mile dog walk in a really nice (rich) neighborhood that goes down to the Tennessee river. Before we knew it, the dog leaped into the river for a swim! It was really, really hot out though, about 89 degrees, so it was a good thing he cooled off. We played fetch along the river for a while, and then headed back.
After the dog walk, we went home. We wanted to plant something on our anniversary; we thought that would be special and we could possibly make it a tradition. So we planted some sunflower seeds along the side of the house. The dog was so hot, and exhausted from swimming, that he lied underneath our patio chairs while we planted. It was pretty cute!
By then, we were HOT and SWEATY and just plain gross. The heat and the sun of the day were starting to fade, and it was looking pretty stormy out. We took the activities inside at that point. We took some freezing cold showers and just cooled off. Since we are self-proclaimed home-made card experts, and we hadn’t bought each other anniversary cards, we decided to make a collaborative home-made anniversary card to us & from us.
Our great friends Katie and Heath, and baby Blake, sent us an anniversary present this week. They sent us a deep dish Spinach pizza from Giordano’s!!! AAAH! How YUMMY! For those of you who don’t know, Giordano’s is our favorite Chicago pizza restaurant and it’s DELICIOUS! So they sent us a pizza for our anniversary, and that’s what we had for dinner on Saturday. While we were making our home-made card, we pre-heated the oven & baked the pizza pie! By the time we were done with our card, the pizza was PERFECT! We ate a ton of it!
All in all, we had a wonderful first wedding anniversary.
