I love long weekends and this one was deffinatly no different in that aspect, except that I might have enjoyed it more then most weekends. Why you may ask? Becuase I celebrated my one year wedding anniversary. I know I know it was a couple of days early, but we wanted to make sure that we celebrated before things got to crazy this month, and Jay will be on base this weekend so we couldn't do it then. We decided that we wanted to cook dinner together so that we could have a fancy meal and still have it with in out budget, and we also decided to start a marriage time capsule. The marriage time capsule is something that I wanted to make a tradition in our family ever since I heard the idea from another blog. The purpose is simple; to help us remember the important good times about each year we are married and to remember and spend time reminicing about it each year to come. Promoting nice thoughts and hopefully some laughs... yep I deffinately like this tradition.
So I found a tin and we decorated it. We each put different things in it leaving room for growth. I put in a picture from our wedding, some love notes that Jay has written me through out the year, a picture of Christ (bc of the blessings and guidence we have recived together and the reminder that he is the center of our home) and I put in my birthday gift that Jay gave me, note cards that spell I love you on them that he hid through out the house for me to find (possible the best gift ever hands down!). He put in some love letters that I have written him, and a CD with my songs 
on them (for those of you who don't know each year since we started dating Jay has given me a song). The CD included my new song for this year, It's your love, by Tim McGraw, our wedding song, Then by Brad Paisley, and the song he gave me when we first started dating called I need you, by Loose Change. The last thing that Jay put into the time capsule was a container or dirt. Surprisingly this one made me cry. It contained three layers of dirt and represented our trip cross country. The top layer was actual rust from NY. Yep thats right, rust. Apparently while living there a couple of bults on his car rusted and he kept them in his tool box after having to remove them, so he gathered rust from them and puts it in the container. The next layer was from a Nauvoo brick we got on our trip out to CA, and so he scratched some dirt from the brick and put it in the container. The last layer of dirt was actually sand from the beach out here, but the sand wasn't from any beach it was from our beach, Sunset Cliffs beach. :) hence the crying. The represntation made me once again remember how adorable my husband is! So after putting together our capsule we made dinner together. Yummy Orange Chicken and fried rice was what was on the menu. All made from scratch and more importantly it was done together. I love cooking with my Husband always have always will. It makes the meal seem more romantice, important, delishes, I don't know what ever the positive adjective you want to put in there thats what it does. It brings us closer together. It makes me happy. I have had the most wonderful, trying, loving, growing year with my husband and can't wait for what else is in store for us!
This is our table setting, yeah I know fancy :)
our Orange Chicken and Fried rice! (SO yummy!)
And the flowers I made for decoration looked like this... The cougar lily. Are you surprised? I didn't think so.
