1 year.

This time last year I was getting ready to walk down the aisle and marry my best friend. No not Haley…Chad Knight. The most amazing man I have ever met. Now, You may remember this post about the wedding, or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one BUT I have never really gone into details of the big day. Since I already talked about the morning of and getting ready lets skip to the best part…when my best friend threw up in the middle of our vows. Okay, so it wasn’t the BEST part that would be when he told us we could kiss and introduced us for the first time as man and wife. Let’s be honest though… you all want to hear about the vows that made Haley puke.

I remember so clearly standing in the hall of the church that day watching my bridesmaids one by one leave to walk down the aisle. I started getting nervous/excited then. I remember thinking, “This is it, THIS is it!” This entire event that I had been planning for a year and a half was about to happen. I wanted to fully enjoy it so while I watched them go and concentrated on every thing they were doing. Marley was ready to POP, baby Lucas would join us only about a month later... Nicole and Katie were looking beautiful, my new sister in laws: Morgan, Apryle, and Hollye stood there smiling at me telling me it was almost time, my sister was being so sweet it almost brought me to tears, and Kerri was giving me that look of, “It’s all about to happen man!” with that silly grin she does that makes me smile and Haley my Maid of Honor was crouching down on the floor trying not to get sick from a killer migraine that we later decided was all Chick-fil-a's fault. She kept smiling at me and telling me everything was fine that she just needed a second and that she was soooo excited for me. Haley was there for everything at this wedding and I knew that she was getting sick but she was determined to power through it and be by my side smiling.

As they all disappeared down the aisle it got down to just me and after they closed the doors I took my fathers arm and just stood there thinking, “This is it.” When I heard the music change and the doors opened I saw all of my friends and family. It was the sweetest moment that I will never forget it and then I saw Chad. I almost started crying immediately so I had to tilt my head back and focus before we started walking down the aisle. I felt amazing, I felt loved, and most importantly nothing mattered anymore. All the planning, all the stress, all the arguments disappeared.

When my father handed me off to Chad I immediately ditch my beautiful bouquet to my sister which I wasn’t supposed to do yet and put my hand in Chads. We held hands the entire ceremony and even though I was supposed to hold my flowers longer I wouldn’t have it any other way. The preacher started the ceremony and out of the corner of my eye I noticed Haley wasn’t looking to good. Still beautiful but we all know that puke face…and this wasn’t a joke. Not long after the preacher started I watched Haley in SLOW MOTION it felt like gracefully turn her head down to the left and puke. Yes, that really did just happen. My mouth immediately fell open and I mouthed, “ARE YOU OKAY” to her with my eyes wide. She looked at me and nodded and gave me one of those pained smiles because she was BEGGING me to ignore her and focus on the preacher. I remember Chad squeezing my hand and then I refocused on the preacher but I still glanced over at Haley a few times to make sure she wasn’t about to hit the floor. She didn’t thank God

(Let me just explain about Haleys puking in a little more detail because that girl deserves CREDIT. I know that when I throw up I make disgusting noises… I mean you can’t help it. Haley was SILENT. I mean the only reason I knew she puked was because her body did that uplifting thing and then white liquid (Let’s call it stomach acid)  appeared on the floor and a tiny bit down her dress. I was sure our videographer had caught it on camera and that everyone had seen but when we asked people later no one had any idea what we were talking about. Other than our family in the very first row, No one saw! After we got our wedding video back we watched it to see how obvious it was and you can’t even tell, it just looks like she turned her head to sneeze or cry for a moment. THAT girl deserves and award. I thought for sure that I would have been pissed but really it just made such a memory that being mad never even crossed my mind. After the ceremony the first thing I did was walk into the bathroom where she was to check on her (she was puking and making lots of noise this time) but she literally was yelling/begging/crying for me to get out and enjoy the wedding and not worry about her. It was the sweetest moment in our friendship to me even though that sounds completely weird.) 

 We kept our ceremony and vows pretty generic with the preacher throwing in a few of his own things but the one part that was so special was when Chad sang my wedding song to me. He wrote and recorded this song to be put on our CD favors but would not let me hear it until he sang it that day. I can’t believe that I didn’t ruin my makeup (thanks be to God for waterproof makeup) and most of the photos from that moment have me with my head back and face up to the sky trying to not let the tears start to fall. It was so funny watching the wedding video later and hearing the recording of that moment. I have never heard Chad sing worse, his voice was shaking, and you can feel the nerves. But what’s so perfect is that at that moment it was absolutely perfect. I had no idea his voice was shaking and I loved every moment. He on the other hand is Still pissed that he sounded that nervous and it just makes me feel so special that I am the only one that has ever gotten him that way. He’s played in front of hundreds of people many times but never had his voice shake that much- I’m honored. (Oh, and it isn’t even that bad he is just very dramatic about it) After we said our I Do’s it was time to get the last round of pictures all together… it was my rule that he couldn’t see me until I walked down the isle which looking back on I loved and I hated. It really did take time away from us going to the reception but at the same time I wanted that look on his face and I can happily say, I got it.

To be continued...

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Now, a year later all day today instead of taking bubble baths and getting pretty I have been at work.

Chad was off (lucky duck) and even though it has just been a normal day I can say it has been a wonderful day. Thank you so much to all of our friends and family that gave us sweet words and congratulations. It wasn't expected but it was totally wonderful.

My amazing husband of one year also sent me this today at work:

I have been wanting one of these for Years!!!

It was amazing and I couldn't help but take pictures of my happiness:

Fabulous.

Then I got off work and came home to the sweetest man holding the sweetest card.

With the best wrapped present ever!

But what really matters is what was in the box right....

Michael Kors Rose Gold Watch!!!

Time with you just got that much sweeter!

Tomorrow we will tell you how this tasted after an entire year and a road trip across the country:

I'm going to be optimistic about this...

GAME OF THRONES!

HBO can do no wrong...

I'm OBSESSED.

Meet the Baddest Bitch alive.

Meet Her hubs.

......

I can't even finish this post.

I'm on episode 7 of season 1 and I just realized that this show is only in it's second season which is airing now. WTF am I going to do when I watch all of them in the next 2 days.

Although, I really can't handle the horse/wolf death happening. Not to mention I am watching butcher man skin a horse on the TV right now. Barf. How is PETA not all over this show?

Tomorrow starts Wedding Week on my blog!

On June 4th 2011 I married the most wonderfulest man in the whole wide world.

He's still here too! That is cause for celebration!

And since I never blogged about the actual wedding day/honeymoon I figured the best time would be on our anniversary! I'm so excited to share our wedding and to try and remember each and every little moment I love so much.

He's so freaking handsome.



Jen LOVES the Bachelor!

Even though I'm wayyyy behind in blogging I'll go ahead and start back with what happened last night. I'm obsessed with reality TV but one thing I don't really watch is the Bachelor and Bachelor Pad. I am sad about this now because last night I was in a room full of people that have been on/or are on that show NOW. Thankfully Jenn was with me for Chad's show and is OBSESSED with the Bachelor. She knew all their names and favorite places, who the bitch was, and who the sweet ones were.

Now, time for what you all want... PICTURES!

There was a little rescheduling mishap which sucked and CK didn't get to play because we were the last one to show up and Michael was only slated to play for 45 mins but his "contract" demanded he play an hour. We got stuck in traffic and arrived last to be told that they had to move things around due to Michael's "contract" and since CK was the last to arrive that had axed him. TOTAL crap but it ended up okay because we got paid for coming, apologized too, free drinks, and our friends that came to see CK got their ticket money back ($40 bucks!). The manager of the bar was really nice too...CK was pissed but in all honesty we all came out way better in the money/drink department and CK will definatly get a rebooked makeup date. Instead of leaving right away we ended up hanging around using up our drink tickets and scoping out the scene to try and see who would come to the show. It was at this point that Jenn was telling me all about the Bachelor and the people that were from Seattle that were coming. I had NO IDEA that I live in a town with reality stars...what's wrong with me? I should be on top of this.

 Anyways, I saw a really attractive guy walk up to the bar area and kinda stand around. He looked like we all do when we are waiting for friends but no one is there yet. I asked Jenn if this guy was on TV - he was too cute, had to be on the damn show. SHE CONFIRMED and was like, "OMG he's on this season that's airing now! I don't know his name....OMG!" Her excitement got me all excited and then we took pictures of ourselves and I creeped on him for a back shot.

Not excited at all.

Standing all TV fancy on us.

A few moments after this Jason and Molly walked in. I thought she wasn't wearing pants and Jenn said she was evil on the show. We also discussed the little information I remembered from their season about how he picked one girl and then changed his mind and married Molly. (I also watched a little bit of their wedding which got rained on and that weird looking guy from American Idol sang Over the Rainbow- which was so sweet) They are still together AND they live in Kirkland! How strange was that... anyways Jason and the cute guy we didn't know the name of started talking and my mission was clear: Go rudely interrupt them and ask for a picture for my blog.

Mission Accomplished.

I have devil eyes again and you can see through my shirt but all in all I love this picture! They were super nice and asked me if my blog was a Bachelor blog. I laughed and told them no, it's about my life with my husband whose a musician that was supposed to play earlier. They acted interested and we small talked and I found out that cuties name is DOUG. He is on the season that is on TV right now and of course I asked the question, "Well, did you win?" He gave me the cutest grin and the hand motion thing of, "well, I duno you'll have to watch" and then winked. He then proceeded to hit on this girl and told her how good she looked so I'm going to say Doug didn't win or if he did I doubt they are still together.



Then it was time to get the rest of the pictures with Molly, Jason, Lindsey, and Michael.

I was supposed to be in this picture and then Jenn was like...NO, I have to be in it.

When we finally went up to Molly she was completely sweet. I didn't watch the shows so I don't know the back story of her character BUT she was nothing but nice to us. After we talked for a few moments about Chad's music, my blog, and living in Kirkland she asked me if I was from Australia because of my accent. WTF? I will take that over Mississippi any day...why yes, I'm from Australia. I have no clue how those accents get mixed up. I actually met a girl from Australia a few weeks ago and she sounded way cooler than I do. Then we got on the conversation of meat (weird but it happend) and I told her how Chad works at Bill the Butcher and will run the one in Kirkland when it opens in July...she got extremely excited and was saying how much Jason LOVES Bill the Butcher's meat. At that point of course I say, "Yes, I hear that a lot, everyone loves my husbands meat!" hahahah ohhh I can't help myself. It's true! No one can beat his meat.

Then Lindsey was there and I have no clue who she is but Jenn was pumped. She said she LOVED Lindsey and that she got dumped at the Final Rose? I'm really not sure but she was also super sweet. We obtained this picture by Jason (Jenns Fiance) going up to her and tapping her on the shoulder and asking, "Hi, can I get a picture with you for my Mom?" Oh, she went nuts... she was like, "OMG,  your mom!? Sooooo sweet of course!" We didn't talk to her very much because shortly after we were heading out the door. Michael had just started playing and Jenn just had to get a picture:

Sooooo excited!

Jenn really wanted to stay until the end of his set because he said that he gives every single person that comes to a show a hug at the end. Really? Jenn wanted the hug... I had no desire to be hugged by a stranger that I don't even watch on TV. Maybe if you were Bethenny... The guys were totally creeped out by the hug thing so it was 3 against 1 very sad girl. Sorry Jenn!!!

Try two

He was okay...had a good voice but he is Really playing up the Bachelor, "I'm a sexy sweet boy" angle and sadly I'm about 98% sure no one was there to hear his songs, just to meet him. There were maybe 10 guys in the entire place and 2 of them were with us and 2 of them were Jason and Doug and the rest worked there. Overall, it was really a lot of fun. I wish I would have watched their shows now so I could have asked more questions but Jenn was freaking out with excitement and wouldn't tell me things to ask them because she didn't want to get embarrassed. I fully explained to her that if our friendship is going to continue we are going to have to work on this embarrassment aversion. Embarrassment is a part of my personality. I encourage and revel in it.

Then we went back to Jenn & Jason's to have a 90's video dance off WHICH WAS DUMB OF ME because now my ankle is messed up again. Oh, that's another story that will pop up soon.

What a FUN night!

Up next...a Twilight adventure!