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11 months down...

... and one more to go. It is so crazy to me that it has only been 11 months. I feel so comfortable with Brandon and feel like I know him so well. The past 11 months have been incredible. Since it was our last month to be able to celebrate on a monthly basis, we decided to celebrate the anniversary. After this, it will always be annual anniversaries (which is not enough by the way!).

We had a softball game on the actual anniversary(Wednesday) so we celebrated Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday!

Brandon got me flowers! And wrote me a very sweet note that I hung up at my desk at work.

We went to eat at Cafe Rio (to use a free meal coupon) and went to Tomasso's afterwards for dessert (to use a buy one get one free coupon!) Tomasso's is in the Riverwoods and has tons of flavors of italian ice! We then went on a walk around Riverwoods and enjoyed the weather.
The next night we cooked dinner on our grill that my parents got Brandon
We went and played in our softball tournament.
These are the girls I work with! I love them so much!
After the game we went to Sonic and used another coupon for a 99 cent Chiller!
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*copy and paste the link below to get the coupon!*
http://www.sonicdrivein.com/prmtns/2009/chiller/index.jsp

Thursday we made an awesome meal that our friend Matt Stanley made in Bear Lake. It is so good! I swear. Here are the details.

Put in a crock pot:
2 chicken breasts (I put them in frozen)
potatoes
carrots
cream of chicken soup (I use 1 can)
ranch dressing
diet coke or dr. pepper
seasoning and salt to taste
*this is all up to you. Put as much of everything as you want. Put it all in the pot on low heat for about 6-8 hours. Shred the chicken before serving.

We then went on a bike ride. I haven't had a bike since I was in 6th grade and I have really wanted one! So my parents gave me one of their old bikes and I love it!
We decided to ride to Sub Zero (that way we didn't feel as bad about eating ice cream, right?!) and we used another free coupon we had.


(We are trying to save money for many bills we need to pay in the next month. Can you tell?! We live by coupons!)

And lastly...
I LOVE BEING MARRIED!!!

8 comments:

Leslie said...

DOnt you love finding/using coupons?!? They are great. I can't believe you two have almost been married for a year. Time sure flies.

Stephanie Lonas - Wanderlively said...

loved all your fun activities/photos --- your softball uniforms are so cute!!

Mars said...

Looks like you guys have been having fun, enjoying each other, the weather, & coupons! Love coupons! I can't believe you have almost been married for a year. Seriously where is time going? And why haven't I seen you?

mb said...

I didn't know you had been celebrating every month, that is fun, I don't even think Scott and I kept track! Happy almost one year!

Unknown said...

happy one year :) (soon). it's amazing how much we grow in marriage? good idea about the coupons, we're going to be coupon clippers once we're back in the states.

and we're back to the U.S. on JULY 30th!!!!!

8 days.

8 days.

we're so pumped. :)

Whittney and Ryan said...

those frozen colorful treats look delicious! this last year went by fast almost one year already!

Allyx and Dan said...

yay for being married. its the best. I am feeling rather jealous of your coupon ownership. where do you go to get all these? All i'm saying is I realllly realllllly want free SUB ZERO. i freakin love that place.

Mel said...

First, I love that you use coupons! Second the treats you guys are holding in that picture look AAAAMAZING! yummm! It makes me happy when I read your blog and see how happy you are