Our First Anniversary

Jeff and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on June 23rd. We rented a cabin in Pigeon Forge, TN. and had a wonderful, relaxing week. The cabin was so cute with a private outside hot tub, full kitchen, jacuzzi tub and it was decorated in a "Cherokee" theme. On Monday (the 23rd) when I woke up Jeff had two envelopes waiting on me to open. One of the envelopes was a beautiful card. Jeff even wrote a little something on the inside (which he doesn't do that often, so it meant so much that he did). The other was a homemade gift certificate that Jeff made at work. The certificate was for $50 to spend anywhere that I wanted. The sweetest part was what the certificate said in small print "For: Redemption on our first wedding anniversary, on which, the traditional gift is made of paper (not because Jeff forgot to buy something and he whipped something together last minute!!!" I thought that was cute! I got Jeff something made of paper also; a gift certificate at Sears. He is really into tools now :) Later that evening Jeff planned a special dinner for us at Ruth's Chris. Neither of us had eaten there before and it was quite a dinner. Our steaks were over $30 EACH and to die for!!! We felt like celebrities. For the rest of the week we did some shopping, went to the zoo and Cades Cove, played put-put golf (I lost by two strokes) and on Wed. we celebrated Jeff's birthday at Tony Roma's. Later that weekend we met up with Jeff's parents, brother and niece at Carowinds. Carowinds is a lot like Kings Island or Kentucky Kingdom. I am terrified of roller coasters so it was quite an experience. I rode the small stuff and left the other to Jeff and his brother, Jimmy. Jimmy gave me a hard time because I screamed a lot when I was on a ride...maybe because it was the kiddie rides :) I hope our kids are a lot like Jeff when it comes to riding roller coasters.