Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Francis!!

We spent the weekend celebrating the marriage of Melissa & Pete, and in spite of the rainy weather, it was perfect!  We had such a blast celebrating with them and everything was beautiful!  Hope you both have an amazing time in Hawaii!!!

Wordless Wednesday

One Year Ago Today

• The sun was shining and the weather was perfect.
• He wore a tux and I wore an ivory dress.
• We met on the lawn to have our "first look". It was one of the only times that we were truly alone that day (well, other than our photographer), and we savored every minute.
• We promised to love each other til death do us part.
• We put on 2 shiny rings as a symbol of these vows.
• We had our first kiss as husband and wife.
• We were completely overwhelmed (in a good way) with love from our friends and family.
• We partied with those friends and family until the DJ said no more (and wouldn't play Shout for us).

The past year has been one of the best so far. Perfect in our own way. I can hardly believe it has already been a year. The day that I married my best friend was by far one of the best days of my life. Happy Anniversary, Ryan!

Oh, and by the way, our year-old wedding cake was surprisingly not too bad considering it had been in the freezer for a year! Did I eat 2-3 pieces like I did on our wedding night and the morning after? No. But the one piece I had was actually ok.

Wordless Wednesday

Some of the other blogs that I read do a "wordless Wednesday" post, so I thought it'd be fun to play along (although, this post is not exactly wordless). With that said, I'll leave you with some ridiculously cute pictures of Ryan and Connor watching football on Sunday while Dave & Cindy were visiting.

San Francisco in Pictures

Just over a month later, and I am finally getting around to posting about our trip to San Francisco. It was a great trip. We had pretty decent weather, and we got lots of exercise from all the crazy hills! The pictures below are just the highlights - if you want to see all the pictures I took, just click on one of the pictures included below and it should take you to our flickr page. Or you can just click here.

First stop, Alamo Square to see the houses that were used at the beginning of the Full House episodes.

After that, we headed to our hotel which was at the top of a really steep hill. This is a picture of one of the streets that Ryan had to drive up (and sit at the almost-top waiting for a red light to change) to get to our hotel.

Dinner at a restaurant called The Stinking Rose. Their motto was that they season their garlic with food - hence the strands of garlic hanging from the ceiling.

One of my first pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, taken on our way to Muir Woods.

Ryan and me at the Golden Gate Bridge.

The entrance to Muir Woods.

Ridiculously tall and perfectly straight redwoods.

Back in San Francisco, one of the old streetcars.

The Bay Bridge that goes to Oakland (the one that they just found a big crack in).

Ryan on the cable car on our way back to our hotel one night after dinner. We wouldn't have survived without the cable cars!

Ryan and me at the Phillies/SF Giants game.

A picture for all the Phillies Fans. We had great seats that were right near the bullpen, and I couldn't resist taking a picture of Cole during the National Anthem.

After the game, we went to Fisherman's Wharf. It was a total tourist trap, but still one of those places that you just have to see.

Ghiradelli Square (in case you weren't sure what this is).

From Ghiradelli Square, we took the LONG walk up to see the crookedest street in San Francisco - Lombard Street.

A cable car in front of our hotel.

Another picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, taken from the ferry to Sausalito. Notice how cloudy it is in this picture.

A picture of Sausalito from the ferry. Sausalito is less than 10 miles from San Franscisco, but had completely different weather (notice the blue skies and puffy clouds). This picture was taken about 10 minutes after the picture of the Golden Gate Bridge above.

That afternoon, we took another boat out to Alcatraz for a tour.

Ryan in one of the cells at Alcatraz.

We came back from Alcatraz and got dinner at Fisherman's Wharf before we headed to the airport for our flight. While we were wandering around, we found Pier 39, where the Sea Lions hang out. It smelled really bad, but we suffered through so I could get a few pictures of the sea lions.