JKLM: 6/1/08 - 7/1/08

It's hard to believe that June 23rd marked a year since we walked down the aisle and said "I do" after months and months of planning our beautiful and super fun wedding! To celebrate our anniversary Jim and I went to dinner and during dinner we talked about this past year. We agreed that our favorite part has been just getting to know each other better...even though we dated for almost four years before we got married and felt sure that we knew the ins and outs of each other's personality! We are so blessed to have found each other and I can honestly say that I've married my best friend and I am so looking forward to the years to come! Oh, and for the record...we ate the top layer of our wedding cake on our anniversary and it tasted just as good as it did on our wedding day!! It still looked pretty too thank to Jim's mom who froze it for us!

Also to celebrate our first year, we went to Savannah and Hilton Head Island for a week. Neither of us had ever been to either place and we had such a good time! We absolutely fell in love with Savannah. It is the neatest city and we enjoyed learning about its rich history! One part that I found pretty funny was that General Ogelthorpe, the founder of Georgia who settled in Savannah in 1733, banned booze, Catholics and lawyers from the city! HA! We'd have been run out for sure since we have a couple of lawyers in the family, we are Catholic and we definitely enjoy happy hour! We only had two full days in Savannah but we made the most of our time! On our first day there we attended mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. It was absolutely beautiful!!! The church reminded us both of the church we were married in. We also did some walking and visited City Market that afternoon and the next day we took the Trolley tour. The tour has about 16 stops and you can get off an on as many times and you want to during the day. We learned about the significance of the squares and saw where Forrest Gump sat on the bench waiting for his bus! We decided to forgo the famous Lady and Son's restaurant in favor of Mrs. Wilke's Boarding House. It was fantastic! Everything is served family style and our table was big enough for eight. It was fun to talk to everyone and share a meal with the people we waited in line with for over an hour! I have to say, the wait was well worth it! We also ate at a restaurant called The Olde Pink House. It's in a old haunted house and each room has been made into a dining room. The food was awesome and the atmosphere was neat! After Savannah we went for a few days to Hilton Head Island. We didn't get much beach time...after seeing a few sharks being caught right outside our condo and too many to count jellyfish washed up we decided that the pool was more our speed...and after I actually figured out where it was enjoyed a few hours there! It was very relaxing! Jim played golf one day while I finished a book and then on our last day we went deep sea fishing! We had hoped that we'd catch our dinner but didn't get quite that lucky! I did catch a baby shark and a small whitting...oh, and I snagged a star fish but that's it! So, instead we decided we'd just go out for dinner! We had such a good time and would love to go back!!

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist...