We've Made it a Year! (And Bought a New Couch)

So the Butts have been married 1+ years now! We've (well, I've) been especially looking forward to the one year anniversary for a while because it means we get to eat the topper of our wedding cake. Plus, it's kind of exciting on another realm, because the thing has been frozen for a year. Is it going to taste like dried dirt? Will it be good? Who knows?

Well, much to my amazement, that cake tasted just like it was made yesterday. I have since then eaten the entire thing by myself- seriously- that year-old cake was delicious! And beautiful, I might add.

We also had another fun surprise while cutting in to our wedding cake- there was a huge piece of plastic in the middle! Gross, right? WRONG! We pulled out the plastic which turned out to be a tiny ziploc bag with a note in it! Our cute cake lady had typed out a Bible verse and hidden it in our cake. We love Ann Palmer!

For the Anniversary Celebration, we decided to stick with the Traditional schedule, which calls for a paper gift on year One. I got Caleb a book he had really been wanting, and he got me a new Bible with my married name on the cover. My Dad got that for my Mom on their Paper Anniversary, so it was a doubly special gift. Thank you Caleb for a wonderful first year of marriage!

This pic is at Old Venice. Don't be fooled: this is not meant to capture the delightfulness of the half-Luau half-supreme pizza we ordered. No, friends, look at the couple in the back: Gross! Who does that? They sat on the same side of the booth and smooched the whole time. I go to Old Venice for one thing and one thing only: eat as much bread as humanly possible.

In other news, we finally purchased our new couch and loveseat. We love it so much! Thanks to Grandaddy who gave us $500 for a couch when we got married. He's glad we've finally put his gift to use! Here's a pic of Caleb and Tameka, the Ashley Furniture Sales Rep, ringing up our couch/loveseat order. Hooray!

And here we are on our super-cute couch. I don't know if you can tell in the picture, but the store had these really weird "thumbs up" sculptures, so we're giving our new couch a "thumbs up."

We did all of this during Ashley's Once-a-Year Midnight Madness Sale, so we saved $100 bucks! Very Fun!