2 YEARS!!

May 29, 2011

Today we celebrate! Today we enjoy 2 years of marriage!  WOW! 2 whole years!  Can I say WOW again!  Where has time gone?  In all the days of my life my favorite day ever has been May 29, 2011! Clint and I were married!  What a day to celebrate!

A walk down memory lane... 2 years ago today we were in Beaufort, NC getting dressed to greet one another at the end of the aisle in the Ann Street United Methodist Church!  We celebrated with 300 of our closest family members and friends at the Duke Marine Lab on Piver's Island in Beaufort.  Here are a few pictures to help visualize our special day!

The flowers and the ties! Peonies and Lilys

The Bridesmaids! Leigh, Eva, Teresa, and Betty Brandt

All dressed!  Carter is ready and excited to throw some feathers!

The Boys!  Clint and his groomsmen and ushers!

Let the water works begin...

YIIIIPPPPEEEE!!!

Posing on the dock!

The church, rings, flowers, and cake!

The historic Beaufort bus we took from the church to the reception!  Wind Blown!

The tent!

Sweet Memories!

And we're off!  Headed to the Pecan Tree Inn downtown Beaufort!

Ephesians 5

 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,  and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.  In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—  for we are members of his body.  “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wifeas he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

And to celebrate these 2 years of marriage we ate a ton of food!  We decided we would go on "vacation" in Raleigh, since our days are numbered here in Raleigh before we move to "K-town."  We decided to eat at The Angus Barn!  OHH man was this delicious!  We started with cheese and crackers, then delicious salads, then texas toast, and then our meals!  Clint ordered the combo of a Filet and the Pork Ribs.  I ordered the bacon rapped Filet!  The Angus Barn is so great, for anniversaries and birthdays you get your very own pound cake!  For real... a whole cake!  Then one of Clint's old Leesville Young Life guys was working that night and he gave us an entire chocolate chess pie! Yes!!  Night made!  Thanks Anugs Barn and Jordan!

Here are a few photos of the night:

Excited to order! Fasted all day for this moment!

Check out that spread! And strange glow around Clint!

The POUND CAKE!

2 years under our belt!

Clint special ordered Peonies!! They smell like our wedding day!

My thoughtful husband!  I have been wanting the J.Crew "barber jacket" for MONTHS!  And, he gave me one!  SO sweet!

Well... there you have it!  We are just some old married people!  2 years down, infinity to go!