One year down...

74 more to go!  (I said this to Javier several times over the weekend until he pointed out that we'd be over 100 years old to celebrate our 75th wedding anniversary, so maybe not quite that many more - but you never know!)

Javier and I had an amazing time celebrating our first year of marriage in Frederick, MD this past weekend.  I'm taking this anniversary as an opportunity to pick up Head(s) Over Heels once more!  I figured I'd start with a quick update on our fun weekend and then jump right into our wedding weekend recaps.  (I know I'll want them for posterity sake! so bare with me those of you that were there and experienced it first hand.)

We had reservations at Volt for Saturday night and enjoyed a delicious meal.  Javier had called ahead to let them know it was our anniversary, so we were greeted with glasses of champagne while we waited for our table!  We ordered two options from each course and lucked out when each of us preferred the opposite dish (and therefore got to finish it after we'd both tasted!). 

I think our favorites were the beets (Javier's) and the sea bass (mine).  Our waiter also brought an extra dessert (ice cream covered in pistachios) with a small candle to blow out in honor of our one year!  It was a lovely meal and great to be able to sit and chat with each other.

how adorable is my husband wearing the suit he got married in?

We knocked around Frederick a bit in the morning, buying some new tea for me and a treat from the bakery, then eventually headed out to some wineries.  At the first one, we purchased a wine testing that included some Mediterranean snacks (olives, feta, roasted red peppers, etc).  With each wine we tasted, there was a suggested food item to eat and then re-taste the wine.  It ended up being a really fun way to do a tasting and we, of course, bought some fun wine we're hoping to share with the Cabezas family at Thanksgiving!

Since the Packers were playing the Ravens, we knew we would be able to find the game on at any bar in Frederick, so we went back and parked at Brewer's Alley for some beer tasting (they give you six 5 oz. beer tastes for eight bucks!) and Green Bay victory.  We proudly wore our jerseys in enemy territory and were (luckily) met with only friendly banter.   After the big win (although it got a little nerve racking at the end!), we headed west to Stone Manor to check out our spot for the evening.


We had planned to take it easy on Sunday night; order pizza in (that's what we ate on our wedding night anyway!), drink the wine we'd saved from the wedding, and reminisce over our photo albums.  We did ending up getting pizza and eating al fresco on the bed and breakfast patio.  There was a wedding going on at the manor and it was fun to watch the caterers running back and forth and guests coming to the main house every now and then.  We drank our wine and chatted about our busy day that happened a year ago already!  We didn't serve cake at our wedding (you remember we went with pie!) so there was no top to freeze for this anniversary.  Instead, I made us a fresh pumpkin pie to share with our wine.  It was delicious (I do love pie....) and another sweet item to trigger memories from our wedding.