Happy Anniversary!

I did want to post about my anniversary on the actual day, like a normal person, but Monday didn't work out quite that way. Lots of work and errands and meetings and one-car-ness. My car was in the shop for almost a week, and on Monday I was afraid Travis's battery was going out and we'd be stranded and not able to even go out to celebrate!

But the car survived, and we had a lovely evening. It was a treat just to spend a number of uninterrupted hours together, doing whatever we wanted. With Travis in a May-mester class that started the week after finals ended, that hadn't happened in quite a while.

We had part of a giftcard to BJ's Brewhouse left from Christmas, so we headed out there for dinner and shared a yummy meal. We asked our waitress to take a picture and Travis told her it was our anniversary, so we wouldn't look like weirdos. We were very surprised when she brought us free dessert later!

Husband, chips and salsa...just the essentials in life.

Doing a good job at channeling my Japanese roots.

Yay!

Next, it was onto the traditional part. We were a little wary about how our year-old cake was going to taste.  You can see how ceremoniously it was preserved. For an entire year.

Aaand we were correct in our predictions. It tasted like styrofoam and plastic bag.

Our reactions:
"I think we just consumed a lot of BPA."
"Yayy, shorter lifespan!"

Fortunately, we'd thought ahead and made an awesome replacement cake, which mimicked the flavor of our groom's cake last year (banana with chocolate chips). We didn't expect the cake to be super popular at the reception since it was an unusual flavor, but it went so fast we never even got a piece.

New Cake vs. Old Cake

This one was also delicious. Box mix FTW. (Shh, Travis bakes for a living so we don't always want to bake from scratch...)

So we ate cake, drank champagne, and watched Downton Abbey. Because we're awesome.

Oh, and presents? (Remember, this was the "paper" year.)

I made these little cards and framed them:

 Travis made me origami tulips (my current flower obsession). The black-and-white ones are some of our wedding photos printed out on paper.

I love this picture. He's being silly and I'm laughing really hard.

 And he also made a crane. That was sort of an inside joke.

And we did indeed order that print I mentioned in my last post. It came in the mail yesterday! I'll post a picture later when we have it up and framed.

Happy belated one year to us, and to all the other couples I know with anniversaries on the 21st! (Especially Matt and Allie.) :)