Our 1 Year Wedding Anniversary!

                                      

I can't believe it's been 1 year since our beautiful and amazing wedding day! Married life is great especially when you know it's with the right person.

Of course celebrating our first year as husband and wife is a MUST! We couldn't really do anything like go out of town for the weekend or spend a lot of $. We've been laying low and not going out as much this September. Definitely a change from August! Oliver in the Nursing Program is like being a full time parent. It's that serious! Even weekends are taken over by studying. I'm glad to say it's paying off though! He's been doing very well! Anyway, I was really happy to hear we could spend the WHOLE day Saturday celebrating our union. Our anniversary falls on a Monday this year, so we decided to celebrate on Saturday due to... you guessed it! School. Here is how the day went:

We first started the morning by going to Coronado for brunch at this little cafe called Crown Bistro. The crab egg benedicts were delicious! AND they used real crab meat! AND it was only around $13!

After brunch we decided to go and relax on the beach. We picked the best spot which was the shore. It wasn't busy, the weather was nice, and our view was Down Town SD. This is where the ferry comes in.

Oliver fell asleep

A little while after, we decided to look at shops and then go to a wine bar called Wine Styles. It was really nice out so we decided to have our drink and snacks on the patio and people watch.

After the drinks, we walked the streets and made our way to Hotel Del Coronado's beach. This place is beautiful. We didn't lay on this beach but we plan to one day!

We decided to kill time by going back to down town SD and looked around in Horton Plaza Mall. Of course we had to stop for Starbucks!

Thanks to Livingsocial.com, I got a really good deal on a sunset cruise in Mission Bay. It's called Whale Watch San Diego but we didn't see any whales that day. However, the sunset was very pretty and romantic!

After our cruise, we had reservations at a restaurant across the street called Firefly which was at the Dana Hotel. Everything we ate was great and I actually recommend this to anyone in the area even if it's part of a hotel.

                                                   
                                                             Ended the day with dessert!

We had to celebrate at least a little bit on our actual wedding anniversary, so we had red velvet cake (what we had on our wedding day) that I made with a bottle of Perrier Jouet Champagne that someone gave us at our wedding and we've been saving for this day.

We enjoyed celebrating our anniversary like this so much I think we might make this a tradition when our anniversary comes up. Instead of just dinner, we'll do an all day activity date. I honestly feel the memories together are more important than things like anniversary gifts...not saying gifts are not nice to get! :) This was our gift to each other. Happy Anniversary Babe! I look forward to spending many many more days like this together. You are a wonderful husband and I feel so blessed to have you in my life. Thank you for all you do. I love you.