Reflecting on our Frist Year Of Marriage
May 27, 2024
Today marks a year of being married to the love of my life. He is kind and brilliant and full of life. We have done so much and lived so much this year, but it is only the beginning. I am so excited to see what the future has in store of us, and the way that we are going to grow and change in the upcoming years.
This year was marked by a lot of being super busy and not getting to spend as much time with each other, and outside, as either of us would like. In June we were able to relax and pack up our things slowly to move everything here to Colorado by July. We were able to live with my husbands brother, his wife and eventually our newest, littlest nephew.
In August we were able to go to some festivals and soccer games and started to fall in love with the area. My family also came to visit because my cousin got married! There was a lot of good food and a lot of good time spent with loved ones. We even went on a little camping trip that really sparked a fire in us to make sure we go camping this year as much as possible. This was also the month that we found out that we were going to be an aunt and uncle again!
September came around and work really started to kick off for me at the Denver Botanic Gardens working as an event assistant. I absolutely adored the people I was working with and the grounds I got to work on, but this meant that I wasn’t able to spend much time with Eli being that we had completely opposite schedules.
October hit and the leaves changed and we were able to see our first big Colorado dumping of snow ( and then how quickly it all melts away ). We went to a Halloween lights show and watched plenty go spooky movies. Early October we went back home to Iowa and celebrated a wedding of one of Elis cousins, and it was so sweet to be able to spend time with family back at home.
November came in fast and we went to some Christmas festivals and went home for thanksgiving. It was a busy and fast month.
December marked our 6 month anniversary and we traveled to Boulder Colorado to go to the tea house to celebrate. We walked around Pearl street and soaked up some Christmas lights and drank lots of warm tea. I celebrated my last day at Denver Botanic Gardens and we decided that we needed to prioritize us having more similar schedules for future jobs. In late December, we went home to celebrate Christmas with our families. It was a lot.
January came around and Eli took me to a candle making workshop to celebrate my birthday! We both so enjoyed getting to create our own seats and still burn our candles to this day at the end of May! It was a pretty sunny month, so we spent as much time outside as we could.
February arrived and we celebrated our first valentines day as a married couple. We made a yummy dinner in the comfort of our own kitchen and it was the sweetest valentines day I could have imagined.
March came and went so quickly I am having trouble remembering what all happened. We got library cards and started to spend more time reading books together. Little buds started popping up from the ground, even though we were no where near being done with the snow, and the days were getting longer.
April brought the most spring spring I have ever experienced. Growing up in Iowa, we get a pretty short spring, that is rather cold and wet. Here, we had so many flowering trees, I was absolutely swooning. Eli and I decided that once we get a forever home, we will be planting flowering trees all around it. We also started planning ideas for a future garden, once we have a forever home (or at least a home with a yard). We got to meet our newest nephew and we are smitten. He is so sweet and so little and we adore him ( and so does our puppy. I think she has some major baby fever).
And this brings us to May. As this is being posted, Eli and I are traveling back to Iowa so that we can jump on a plane and visit my sister in Spain. Once we come back, another one of my sisters will be getting married in the middle of June. Earlier this month we celebrated Eli’s birthday by going to a candlelight concert, going to an amazing restaurant that we already have plans to go back to, and then going to a soccer game (he is a big fan of soccer and we have tried to make as many games as we can this season so far. ) Then, later that week, a bunch of Eli’s family came to Colorado to meet the new baby as well as celebrate the baby’s father graduating from medical school! Lastly, we moved tour first place alone as a married couple and we couldn’t be more excited! We have been so blessed with the time that we have had living with Eli’s brother ad his wife as well as living with my sister before that, but we are so excited to be able to be in our own space, just the two of us. It has been a crazy month and I am so blessed that I was able to see so much family in it.
Here is to another wonderful year, Eli! I love you so much and I am so excited to do life with you.
