anniversary celebration

we celebrated our first anniversary in Portland by

// seeing The Art of The Louvre's Tuileries Garden exhibit at Portland Art Museum

// coffee and a nutella puff at heart coffee

// annual photo booth photos at ace hotel

// watched the oregon game {not pictured}

// dinner and wine tasting at coopers hall

// brunch at urban farmer

Thank you for all the well wishes!

the first year

Happy one year anniversary to my sweet husband!

Jeff || Sam Wedding Sample from Grant Lemons on Vimeo.

Technically tomorrow (Sunday, Sept. 7th) is our anniversary but we are celebrating all weekend.

I could watch our wedding video over and over all day. Actually that's basically what we did when Grant sent it to us when we were still on our honeymoon. While I'm sure most people have seen our wedding photos on other sites, I haven't shared many here. In honor of our first year of marriage, I'll be sharing some of my favorite photos from our wedding day.

On a more serious note about our first year of marriage.
It's been a crazy first year of marriage for us and I'm so glad I had Jeff by my side. We had a lot of transitions to work through in the first six months, none of them directly related to our marriage, but isn't everything related to our marriage now? The first six months were hard. They say the first year is hard but I don't think they meant this. Unexpected career changes, family changes, friends going through hard experiences. I am so glad we had each other. In the last six months things have been on an upswing and I feel like we are finally living the life we are supposed to be living! Recently we both went through transitions to better jobs and even though I don't like transitions, it was one of those positive changes. While it is crazy to think of how many things have changed in just the last year, I am so happy to be celebrating our first year of marriage. I said in my vows that Jeff taught me about unconditional love and that was never more evident than in our first year of marriage.
Here's to many many more years! 

Honeymoon: Pt. 2 Salvation Mountain

 Salvation Mountain was about 1.5 hour from Palm Springs and I knew we had to go once I learned about it. Read more about the background here. I thought this might be a touristy place to visit and when we showed up we thought there were other people there because of other cars being present but the second we stepped out of the car we realized we were the only ones there. It was the quietest place I've ever been, a little eerie, I can't explain it but it was just so quiet. The other cars that were there were painted and part of the scene. I'm not a religious person so I didn't connect with the messages but it was so amazing to see in person. Jeff and I were only there for about 15 minutes total but I'm really glad we made the trek out there. If you're ever in the area, I recommend it!