1 Year!! Wow that was fast! (Anniversary #1)

So we celebrated our 1 year anniversary this past Sunday in Atlanta! And seriously, that first year went by so fast! We have been through so much in our first year of marriage and it has been really cool to see how God has worked in our relationship and what He will do with you if you are willing to walk with Him in freedom. He has drawn us so much closer this past year. We have shared things with one another that we vowed to never share with anyone and I can truly say that my wife knows more about me than anyone else in the world. Now we certainly have plenty of things to work on in our marriage and in our own lives, but man God is just so faithful that if you will just submit yourself (and in our case our marriage) to Him, He is faithful to work all in that.

We stayed at the Grand Hyatt in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. Yes it was nice. And yes they did charge us $20 to park overnight in their own parking garage. We ate at Bluefin Sushi via recommendation from my brother. And that's where Carrie learned that we will soon be making our way down to Disney World!!! I bought her tickets to and put them in a Willy Wonka bar and had her open it up to look for "golden tickets". And listen, I'm telling you that my wife totally knows me: she bought me an antique chess set for our anniversary!! What a woman! We stayed in Atlanta a couple of days and went to the Georgia Aquarium (which if you haven't been you absolutely need to) and to Six Flags, where Carrie rode her first roller coaster that did a loop!

Our prayer for this next year of our marriage is that we will give much more of ourselves and our marriage to God, that we will continually die to ourselves and live more and more in His freedom and grace. We pray that we will learn more and more what it is to truly submit our marriage to God and to glorify our Savior and live for the only thing in this world that will ever matter, His Kingdom.

Sunrise on our Anniversary! Note the construction crane, we were in downtown Atlanta after all.

Carrie so proud of her "golden" Disney World tickets.

My chess set! Apparently it is hand carved from soap stone.

Jellyfishes at the GA Aquarium.

Carrie didn't want this fine gentleman to have to watch this movie about whales by himself, so........

She joined him. What a sweetheart.