1 year of Wedded Bliss!

Rod and I celebrated our 1 year Anniversary this past weekend.  He got to plan Friday night and I got to plan Saturday night. So Friday night we headed downtown and had dinner at the French Room. I had always worried that I may not be a fan of a place like that, mainly because if I can't pronounce the name, I'm probably not going to eat it. But it is supposed to be one of the best restaurants in Dallas, so it couldn't be that bad.
Well, Rod absolutely loved it, I just thought it was okay(this definitely could have had something to do with the pregnancy) For some reason meat just hasn't been to appealing lately, which is weird cause I normally love meat. I ordered a crab cake for the 1st course (okay) beef tenderloin for the 2nd (1st couple of bites were good, but then I wanted no more) and for dessert I ordered White Chocolate Souffle (okay).  Luckily Rod's main course came with Mashed potatoes so I dug right into those. For some reason starchy food is what I am craving. Even though I wasn't feeling the food, we had a great time. It is a beautiful atmosphere with excellent service.

Saturday morning we looked at each other and both said I haven't gotten you a gift. The funny thing is I wasn't stressed about it at all. At first I had tried to come up with something clever with the whole "paper" tradition, but had nothing. Then he mentioned wanting a gun safe so I thought I had found my gift until he told me the cost -$1500, so I was back to square one. I had wanted to take one more trip before the baby comes, so I thought that he could pick the location and that could be his gift, he then informed me that he probably wouldn't be able to take off work, again back to square one. I had mentioned wanting a new camera so we decided that would be both of our gifts. I felt kinda bad that it was something I wanted and not something he wanted, but he later revealed that he would probably have more fun with it than me. He proved that when I saw him standing in his boxers at the kitchen counter taking out all the parts and reading the instruction manual after dinner Saturday night. He has been snapping pictures like crazy....... I no longer feel bad :)

So Saturday night was part 2, my night. I had planned about 2 months before to have dinner at The Tower Club, the place where we had our wedding reception. It is a members only club, but I emailed the  lady that we worked with for our wedding and she said we could absolutely have dinner there. It is a beautiful restaurant with great views of Downtown Dallas. I wasn't sure what the food would be like, but we were actually very impressed. Rod had some seafood pasta and I had a peppered pork chop with mashed potatoes and a side of lobster mac and cheese, it was delicious.

Sunday was our actual anniversary that was pretty uneventful. But I did order a small tier of my cake and  Rodney's groom's cake from our cake lady. Since we had eaten the top tier on our 1month anniversary, I decided we had to have another one. So we ended the anniversary weekend with cake in bed on Sunday night.

After 1 year of marriage I would have to say that married life is not that much different. I mean we did live together for almost 3 years before we got married, so that pretty much makes everything feel the same. The hard part(for me ) was combining bank accounts and sharing money. If you know me, I am very anal about money (saving it) and Rod is very care-free( he has no problem spending it). It was hard at first and there were many arguments about "you spent $50 this week in Red Bull and breakfast burritos, that's $200 a month"  and "what do you mean we shouldn't buy a new truck right now". But I am happy to say that we have finally started to figure it out and at times I think we do a great job of balancing each other out. I've taught him to not be so impulsive and free spirited (I think) and he's taught me to loosen up and live a little.

It was an amazing year and I can't wait for many, many more. I am so blessed to have met such a wonderful man that is my perfect match, I couldn't ask for a better husband. I just said that married life wasn't that big of a change, let's see if i say the same thing this time next year when we have a little one running around :)