First Anniversary

It's hard to believe we've already been married for a year, but at the same time it feels like we've been married for a long time! After dating for so long, the transition to marriage was not too hard; we've had such a fun first year!

Jeremy planned a whole weekend of fun things for us to do. We won't go this big every year, but it was so nice to do some fancy stuff to celebrate! It was so sweet of him to plan everything - he's so good at it and he loves surprising me!

Friday night we got dinner at a local pizzeria, Randelli's. It was so good! We got stuffed breadsticks (stuffed with cheese and pepperoni), with yummy jalapeño cheese sauce. Our choice of pizza was the Santa Fe - grilled chicken and red sauce, with cilantro (our favorite) and banana peppers. It was an interesting combination, but surprisingly tasty! It's definitely a small town place - the owner's wife was our waitress and the owner stopped by to see how our pizza was - but I think it might become a frequent stop. After dinner, we went to our first Avon High School football game! This was a blast to go to. We have never been to a high school game together, and I haven't been to one as a spectator since elementary school, so it was cool to experience that together. It was a perfect crisp fall evening. Sadly, we lost, but it was still a good time. It's interesting to compare high school skills with college and the NFL, which we're more used to watching... it's definitely different.

On Saturday, we packed our overnight bags and headed downtown. After dropping off the car at the hotel, we headed over to Irish Fest. We were able to wander around through the different shops, watch a herding dog demonstration, eat some delicious food (fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage and of course, soda bread) and enjoy some fantastic live music. It wasn't very crowded, which was nice. It was a pretty relaxed festival - we were able to just savor our food and listen to the music.

After Irish Fest, we headed back to our hotel, the JW Marriott downtown. We changed and took a short walk to our dinner destination - The Eagle's Nest. This is a really cool restaurant - it's on the top floor of one of the buildings in downtown Indy and it rotates! Jeremy timed it perfectly with the reservation, so we watched the sunset while eating our dinner. We ordered crab cakes, and Jeremy got a surf and turf dish while I got a Dover sole served over a lobster hash (so. good.). The service was a bit slow with getting our entrees out, so we each got a free drink. This gesture was really nice and put the restaurant back in our good graces. Overall, it was a fantastic dining experience - a great place to go when you're celebrating something!

After dinner, we went on a carriage ride around the city. It was so peaceful and it was fun to see Indy while being pulled in a carriage. I felt like a princess!

We even had a nice treat to come back to at the hotel. The package that Jeremy booked came with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries! Yummy!

Sunday morning we went to a breakfast buffet at Osteria Pronto, one of the restaurants at the JW. They had bacon, so all was good. After breakfast, Jeremy and I took a walk along the canal. I have never been down to the canal (weird, I know) and it was so much prettier than I ever thought! It was so good to be able to walk and enjoy the fall weather. Overall, it was a fantastic weekend and for once, it actually went by slowly! We had such a good time celebrating our first year of marriage. I am excited to see what year two holds!

Jeremy: Hello everyone! I just wanted to say something about two more fun milestones that we've recently passed. First off, my car passed 280,000 a few weeks ago!

And more importantly, this blog passed 3,000 views sometime last week. So I just wanted to say thank you all so much for reading and we really hope you've enjoyed what we've been doing so far. My hopes for this blog were that it would be a good way to chronicle our work, give us a good tool to share what's going on with us and our work on the house, and to maybe inspire a few people out there with things that we're doing. Hopefully we're off to a good start in these areas.

Thanks again for all of your support, both now and as we look forward to the future!