One Year... Almost :)

In a week we will have been married a year, it has been quite the experience:

I remember our wedding day and being so anxious to get that ceremony started :) I remember walking into the sanctuary at the church with such an excited (with a little nervous thrown in) feeling in my tummy. I remember him looking at me like I was the most beautiful woman in the world. And of course, he was so handsome in that tux. We joke now that he doesn't like any of his wedding pictures because he looks like he's 12 :) It was the happiest feeling in the world when I climbed into "our" Bronco as Mrs. Hickam! We were so exhausted when we got home and my ribs felt like they were going to crack from my dress. We just collapsed on the bed, laid there and stared at the ceiling.

We almost died twice on our honeymoon. We rented a snowmobile one of the days, the snow was so high that it covered fences and reached the bottom part of the stop signs. So obviously everything looked the same. You couldn't tell where the roads were. We tried following a map, but when you can't tell the roads from everything else, maps become quite UN-helpful. We were frightened that we would run out of gas, night would come, we would be in the middle of nowhere and then there would a headline in a few days that would read "Honeymooners Found Frozen After Three Days of Marriage." :) Thankfully, we found our way back and did not venture that far from civilization again. One of my favorite memories was sitting in the hot tub. The hot tub was on the porch of our cabin and surrounded by snow covered pine trees. We would turn the porch light off and sit in the hot tub. It snowed almost every night. We would just sit there and look up into the dark sky and watch the snow fall down. It was so beautiful, peaceful & quiet... I can actually remember hearing the snow fall. We watched movies, played games, went snowshoeing (which we weren't big fans of) and just enjoyed being married!

Have you seen the movie "Ice Age?" Well there is a character on there named Sid. Sid is a sloth. Sid has weird looking eyes. Because I have such poor eye sight, my glasses are on the thick side. So when I wear my glasses my eyes look funny. Thanks to my husband, because of this one similarity, I have inherited the nickname "Sid." I'm sure you've all seen the movies "Star Wars." My husband makes a noise that sounds curiously like the noises Chewbacca, the Wookie makes. You guessed it, Sage is now my Wookie. We actually have many, many other nicknames for each other. But the stories behind them are long & boring... but not to me :)