Third Anniversary Trip

First Anniversary  Second Anniversary 

Tim and I found out very early on in our relationship what our love languages are. A love language is how you most feel loved, and how you express love to others. (I highly recommend learning the love language of the people you care about. Or even the people you don't get along with, it could really help your relationship out a lot.)
Tim feels loved when people spend 'quality time' with him, and 'physical touch' is high on his list.
For me it's 'quality time', 'words of affirmation' and 'gifts'. Although, after having kids 'acts of service' shot straight up. I'm needy, what can I say.
So as you can see 'quality time' is something we both need to feel most loved. That's why we make sure to get away together for at least a few hours close to our wedding anniversary. It's hard to be gone too long with an infant, but it's important enough to our marriage and I totally trust our family to watch the boys.
This year we decided to just spend the day at 'our little lake Michigan beach'. We went there for our honeymoon and so far every year since. I guess it's a tradition now. The beach was actually busy this time, unlike other years so we found our new-favorite-secret-dune-hideout. It's was perfect. We had a little picnic with all our goodies we got at Whole Foods, laid in the sun, took pictures, and gave each other gifts.

I think I've finally built up enough courage to post our full love story and how God brought us together, so stayed tune for that.

I love you to death Tim Porter! Thanks for loving me.

The Lake House

Well apparently I wasn't kidding about blogging every day this week.

This was the first time I was able to take Tim and Evin to the family lake house.
I was shooting a wedding just a few miles away and it was a perfect time to visit.

Needless to say they both loved it. I have good memories here and it was fun to take my little family around to some of my childhood playground.

Celebrating One Beautiful Year

Tim and I celebrated our first anniversary a few weekends ago and here are some pictures.

He did a good job surprising me (which is extremely hard to do).

Unfortunately I had a 102.+ fever, throbbing headache and forgot my make up bag, but other than that it was wonderful.

He is so sweet to me. 

He started the weekend off by giving me flowers...yes, orchids.
My favorite.

We drove to Chicago on Friday night.

The next morning we went garage saling, because I love it so.

Made out like bandits on some cool stuff I "needed".

Next he took me to get my nails done.

(At the same place that had done them a year earlier for our wedding.)

I've been wanting him to try some horchata for like two years now and we finally got some.

Yummy, yummy stuff!

After that we hit another garage sale, tried to buy some stuff but the guy decided he really liked us and gave us everything for free.

Nice guy, I like him.

We made sure to stand in the exact spot we got married a year ago to the minute.

I have this restaurant and it's my favorite restaurant so where do you think Tim took me for dinner?

I've been wanting to go there with him ever since we've been together but it just hasn't worked out until this trip.

He took me downtown, we walked by the lake, we took one picture and the phone died.

We waited an hour and a half to get into the restaurant then ate super yummy food.

You'll just have to take my word for it because I have no documentation. 

The next morning I was feeling pretty bad so we just laid low till the afternoon then he took me to an Inn by lake Michigan.

We had stayed just down the road at a bed and breakfast for our honeymoon last year.

It was so nice to go back.

That evening we went out to eat at a place that specializes in seafood.

We had some homemade tomato soup that Tim declared was the best he's ever had
and had some seafood, of course.

(You'll have to forgive the cell phone pics.)

After dinner he presented me with a necklace he made just for me.

Pretty talented.

Who thinks he should open his own Etsy shop?

In the morning he took me to my favorite place.

The beach!

Someone asked if we were on our honeymoon...what a silly question, why would they ever think that?

The ocean! I'm so happy!

Tim trying to make me laugh, and succeeding quite well I might add.

What women doesn't love a man that can make her laugh? 

While on the beach Tim read me a song he wrote for me.

He's been working on it for almost a year, whenever he has spare time.
It was so cute.

This is the part I've been waiting a year for...eating our awesome (gluten free) cake!

The girl who did our cake made it exactly how I wanted it to look.

Check it out!

And she made it taste awesome too.

Needless to say the cake was gone rather fast.

We had a lovely time together but were so happy to come back to our little smooie.

It was amazing how much we missed the little guy just being gone less than 24 hours.

We didn't even know him a short time ago and now he's so important to us.

Next post will actually have him in it, I promise.

I love you Tim!