Has it REALLY Been a Year?

It feels like James and I just got married a month ago, but somehow an entire year has slipped away from us! Maybe it's because the first few months were spent in hotels while our apartment was flooded with sewage... or maybe it's because we were so busy... or maybe it's because James is always entertaining! Who knows, but I do know we had a great first year.

Here are some pictures to remember the best day ever.
October 12, 2007

It doesn't feel like much has changed since then. We did, however, have a fun time celebrating our 1st anniversary in Texas! My sister, Angie, got married to her perfect match, Dane, on October 10th, so we got to celebrate twice--once in Texas and again by ourselves the next weekend. It was kind of neat to witness a wedding around our anniversary and think back about our own.

The Provo Temple before the Texas trip.

The Hayes Family at the Hayes-Jansson Wedding

The top of our wedding cake!

Okay, so that's not the real cake from a year ago. Funny story. I guess my mom saved the top of our cake (which James and I didn't even know) in her freezer, but because of recent hurricane events, they had to empty our freezer. Matt was going through our freezer throwing everything away when he realized in a split second before throwing our cake away, that this was something important. He was so sweet to bring it up to Dallas with him and save it in Kylene's parents freezer. After all that trouble, he forgot to bring it back to Beaumont with him (what, like there are more important things than our wedding cake?), so my mom had the same bakery make us a similar looking small cake for our anniversary. How nice is that? James and I didn't even remember it in the first place, and we ended up having FRESH, moist cake for our big day!

The next weekend when we got back, we went to the Roof restaurant in Salt Lake because that's where we went with our families the night before our wedding. Plus, James's parents were sweet enough to get us a gift card to use there. I'd say we ate enough... I literally felt full for 2 days. It was worth it though!

Up close and personal at the reflection pool.

Thanks, everyone, for helping make our 1st anniversary a memorable one!