Our Wedding Anniversary

On June 14, Kevin and I celebrated our first Wedding Anniversary. We've been together about five years now, but our days of wedded bliss number just a few over the one year mark. Even though our first year was full of health challenges, we faced them together and came out all the stronger as a couple because of them. What an incredble gift to be sharing life with your soulmate, your true love, someone who inspires you to want to be your very best! We both were so happy to find each other and combine our solo journeys into one shared by two.

Kevin gave me a beautiful vase to mark the special occasion of our first anniversary, which you can see in the photograph above. The blues in it match the cornflower blue color of my wedding dress. I gave Kevin a hand tooled leather journal with the Tree of Life on the cover. We were tickled to find we both chose gifts with tree motifs for one another. We both love trees and our cabin is surrounded by them. Both of us are also dedicated members of a group that aims to help preserve our local forests.

It seems only fitting that I end this blog with a photograph of a tree...a lovely pink magnolia tree in full bloom. It could very well be the type of tree that inspired the artist who hand painted the design on my beautiful anniversary vase.