V-Day

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm making my awesome Olive Pasta for Hubs (it's one of his favorites), but the meal is really all about dessert.

A Fudge Yummy (with heart) and the signature Yummy Cupcake

Mmmmmm. Cupcakes.

These cupcakes are from Yummy Cupcakes in Burbank. They're much better than the cupcakes at that other more famous (and expensive) shop in BH. I've been going to Yummy Cupcakes since they opened, and I love them so much we decided to have their cupcakes at our wedding.

Hubs went to great lengths making this cupcake stand. It turned out beautifully.

They made a little cake for us so we could have the cake cutting ceremony. I still remember Hubs and I eating the cake together after we got back from our honeymoon. So good, so...yummy :) The best part is that we can get cupcakes whenever we want and have a taste of our wedding.

Belize

One year ago today, this is where I was, honeymooning in Belize.

We stayed at the Coco Plum Beach Resort, which is a tiny resort on the Coco Plum Caye.  The food wasn't amazing, but it was good.  The cabana we stayed in was comfortable and private and the Caye was incredibly low-key.  At the end of the week, there was only one other couple on the island besides Hubs and me. 

The resort was perfect for privacy.

Everyday we were taken to the Belize Barrier Reef a few miles away, it's the second largest in the world after the Great Barrier Reef.  The snorkeling was amazing, and the water was crystal clear and warm.  We saw fish all the colors of the rainbow, rays, starfish, an eel, and a lobster.  We took amazing underwater photos, but all the photos tragically erased during the flight home.  I'm still recovering from the loss.  I will never, ever buy another Vivitar product.

We hiked Mayan ruins in Xanantunich:


Iguana on the Ruins



The stars in Belize are unlike stars I've seen anywhere.  The night sky there was a blanket of stars.  It was beautiful and unexpected.  I can't wait to go to another part of the world with a night sky of that intensity.

Vows

One year ago today I married Hubs.  In celebration of that wonderful day, I'm posting our vows.  We wanted to write our own vows to make it personal, but we wanted a traditional feel at the same time.  So we wrote vows that our minister (Hubs' Dad) read and we recited.   Plus, I knew if the two of us wrote separate vows to read to each other, Hubs would totally kick my ass in the sentamentality department.

We added a lot of personal touches to our wedding, but writing the vows together was my favorite part.  One Sunday afternoon in November we sat down at the kitchen table, looked at traditional vows, and discussed what we liked and disliked.  We came up with vows that worked for us.  And isn't that what a marraige is all about?  Here are the vows he made to me:

Lisa, I give myself to you, to be your husband.

I promise to love you with an open heart, to cherish you for the person you are, and appreciate you in new ways as we grow and change.

I promise to be faithful to you, to be honest and truthful, to honor and respect you, always.

I promise to listen to you and encourage you.

All of these things I promise, whether we are at our best or at our worst, in joy and in sorrow, when it’s easy and when it’s hard, as long as we both shall live.