First Anniversary

Tuesday, September 13, was also a special day for another reason – it was our first wedding anniversary. It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed since that beautiful sunny morning in Cambridge. Our wedding was short but we have many pictures of that day. It really was a wonderful little wedding. We set the date only 4 days before so most of our friends and family weren’t there, but we had several of our friends from Boston as well as my mother, who was in Florida at the time and flew up for a couple of days in order to be able to attend. The justice of the peace who married us clearly enjoyed her job because she was very friendly and was even clapping when the ceremony was over! Our friend Theresa gave us flowers for my hair and for Tim’s shirt and Ingrid brought me a bouquet of purple irises. In that small group we had 4 photographers, so the event was fully documented! The ceremony only lasted about 20 minutes, but we enjoyed every moment of it and have many memories. After the wedding my mother took us and our friends out to breakfast at a nearby restaurant, and that night, she and Tim and I went to Fugakyu, a Japanese restaurant in Brookline that serves delicious sushi (needless to say my mother stayed away from the raw fish).

On Tuesday, to celebrate our anniversary, we thought it would be fitting to go back to a Japanese restaurant, so we went to Yamato, a Japanese steakhouse here in OKC. While we didn’t make a whole meal out of sushi, we did have some as an appetizer before our hibachi meal. The hibachi meal itself was entertaining since they cook it right in front of you and the cooks always have fun doing tricks and tossing their knives around. Our cook kept trying to aim small pieces of food into our mouths, but unfortunately it never worked. However, we did get the rest of our meal on our plates! I somehow managed to eat the majority of my meal with chopsticks, even most of the rice. I did have trouble with the slippery vegetables, though. Tim and I had a great time at the restaurant and enjoyed our anniversary dinner. Afterwards we came home and had some cake, which Tim had had made for the occasion. What a thoughtful husband I have!