Our First Christmas

How nauseatingly cute.

Christmas was crazy!  Mostly because we got back into town the day before Christmas Eve.  Our apartment was a MESS.  It was a little depressing.  Cord had to work all day Christmas Eve til six, so I spent the day at my parents' house, and then Cord met us at my Aunt Julie's for dinner.
For Christmas presents, Cord and I agreed on a low spending limit for each other's gifts since we had just dropped a few grand on our honeymoon.  Ha ha.  Cord gave me a super cute bamboo plant, and I gave him a bunch of little stuff.

Here we have Cord with all his presents.  Score.

And here is me, with my new bamboo plant. 

Christmas day was spend with Cord's family; we pretty much spent the whole day with them :)  I had a great Christmas, but I think I'll enjoy next year better.... less stress you know?  :)

Honeymoon!

Once upon a time, we went on our honeymoon!  The day after our wedding.  We flew out on Saturday, and came back the following Friday.  For those of you that didn't know, we went to Disney World! 

The bad things:

• The rude lady behind me on the plane ride that, when I tried to recline my seat, shoved it forward.  Seriously??
• Our shuttle bus not showing up when we arrived at the Orlando airport... at 11:30 at night
• Leaving my itinerary that included all our confirmation numbers and everything, in our taxi cab on the way to our hotel.
• The two hour wait in line for "Test Track."  Soooooo boring.
• Best one:  Having to be patted down in airport security since I still had the 100+ bobby pins in my hair from the wedding, and THEN them searching my bag and finding an old pocket knife that had fallen into ripped lining at the bottom of my purse.  Awesome.

The good:

• Being able to check our luggage for free!  Thank you, US military.
• Our hotel.  Loved it!
• The food.  Amazing, amazing, amazing.  My favorite:  All of it.  Cord's:  Either the Moroccan restaurant, or the Norwegian.
• The worker at the ice-cream stand that gave me my Mickey ice cream bar for free, and told me it was my "magical moment."  Yes Disney.  You win.
• The weather.  75 and sunny the whole time.  Love it.
• When two workers walked up to us and asked if we wanted fast passes for a couple rides in the park.  Ummmm... yes please.
• We wore pins that said "Happily Ever After" so everyone would know we were on our honeymoon.  Pretty much every worker we passed told us "Congratulations", and we got lots of free perks. :)

In other words, we had fun.  And most the bad stuff was slightly funny.  Except for the lady that wouldn't let me recline my seat on a 4 hour flight.  Jerk.

Here we are on the plane ride.  You can tell how excited Cord is.

Lunch at the Hollywood Brown Derby.  SUPER fancy.

Sci-Fi Dine In Theater!  Yum.

Cord and Sleeping Beauty :)

Yep.  That pretty much sums it up.  Florida was a blast!

Wedding Day- Part 2

Here I am, back again, it's reception time!  First of all, may I just say... I love my bridesmaids!!!  They were the best.  I had a minor bride-zilla freak out right before the reception and was kind of yelling a bit and telling people what to do a lot.... and my girls were just great :)  Thanks for putting up with me and being such a help Jamie, Emily, and Sloan!!  And thanks a million for the mountain dew... you ladies know me way too well.

The reception was really fun!  There were so many great people that came out and supported us!  And I'm pretty sure everything went pretty well... minus the fact that I didn't get to spend a good solid hour by the fountains.  That's right, THESE fountains.

Now look me in the eye (figuratively) and tell me that's not the most beautiful thing you've ever seen.  They probably should have made the receiving line right by the table, but you can't have everything, right?
Also, the flowers were gorgeous!  I was really impressed with the lady that did them.

Pretty pretty flowers!
After standing in line for a wee bit, it was time to cut the cake.  Did I shove it in Cord's face?  Probably.

And then it was time to do bouquet toss.  How exciting.

Now if this is not an action shot, I don't know what is.

I was sad for the reception to be over!  It's crazy, you put hours and hours, and so much money, into this one day!  And then it's over and all you have are pictures and memories!  And most those memories are a blur.

Here we go!  Off to our car!  People blew bubbles and stuff.  Not quite as good as chinese lanterns being released into the sky, but eh.  What can be done?

My silly friends Emily, Kaitlyn, and Jamie missed the send-off memo, but maybe they were just trying to make it more personal? 
Yep.  I think so.

Wedding night.  Yes I will keep it PG!  Because all we did was play chess and sip sparkling apple cider!  And eat the entire package of strawberries that Dave Wiser stole from the caterer and covered in chocolate from the chocolate fountain!  Truly, that made my day perfect.  YUM. 
Above you can see the cute little table that our room provided.  How cute.

Anyways, the hotel was awesome!  I am a big fan of Anniversary Inn.  There were rose petals all over the floor, there was romantic music playing, there was a fireplace, we got cheesecake, the tub was awesome and I probably took an hour long bath that night while Cord watched TV or played Angry Birds or something, and then to top it off, breakfast in bed!!!
A+ Anniversary Inn.  Good job.

Even though everyone knows I hate love, and weddings, the above-mentioned stuff changed my mind.  Slightly.