First Anniversary Part 2

We celebrated our first anniversary on Sunday! I can hardly believe how fast the year has gone and how much has happened in our first year together! We celebrated part on saturday as well. Luke had applied for a security position in Dugway-a base we thought was near Tooele. So we drove out to see what it was like and look at houses out there for fun. Tooele would be ok--we found a 4 bed, 3 bath house with a 2 car garage for $140K! Then we decided to see where Dugway is. We continued heading west...for 45 minutes! We drove through a long, windy, one lane mountain road (with a sign saying it doesn't get plowed in the winter) that literally dead ended into Dugway base. There was NOTHING out there--no houses, gas stations, grocery stores-- desert only. That made the decision for us-- we will NOT be moving to Dugway--or Tooele for that matter, but we had a fun little drive!

That night we got all dressed up and went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner. I have always thought it was weird when people called it their "wedding anniversary," as that sounds redundant to me, but our waitress asked if we were celebrating an occasion and so I said "yes--it's our first anniversary!" and then she looked confused and asked if we lived together or if we were married. It was an odd question to us, but I guess it just proves to us that to the world marriage is a thing of the past! After dinner we were walking around the mall, and Luke actually found a belt buckle to replace the one he left in our hotel on our honeymoon last year. It only took a year, but we finally we able to replace it! We also went to see the movie "Dear John" that night which we really enjoyed--even if we were a little fancy for the dollar theater.

Sunday for the actual day we made ourselves a nice steak dinner and created our own candle light ambiance at home. It was a nice relaxing day, and so fun to be able to go through the highlights of our first year together. We were told we are no longer newlyweds--we are now oldly weds :)