5 Years {Anniversary Photos}

2010

We packed up everything in my car after the reception, and drove 2 1/2 hours to our little yellow farmhouse. Someone suggested we stop for dinner, since we'd had a snacks and desserts reception, but we'd eaten so much that neither one was hungry. Angel unpacked the car and we sat on the livingroom floor (no furniture yet) and unwrapped and opened every gift and card.

 2011

I had class that morning, so Angel dropped me off, and opened my gift for him (a journal: Paper) while I was in class. After that, we went to Taco Bell and to the arcade--we were college students when we met, so as a throwback, I'd planned the kind of stuff we did when we were still on the college budget. We won so many tickets at the arcade that we picked out a stuffed bumblebee as a prize. At night, though, we dressed up in our wedding clothes and went out for steak at Logan's, shooting this quick picture by putting our camera on top of the bookshelf.

2012

Decided we might as well continue the tradition of dressing up and taking photos, only this time, with a photographer.This year, Angel planned the celebrations. I took the day off of beauty school, and he took me up to Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City for a night, where we played in the waterpark and the arcade in the afternoon. We went out for Mexican food and then wandered the local mall, where I fell in love with a black trenchcoat. He bought it for me. I gave him two customized t-shirts (cotton).

2013

My family was staying with us on our actual anniversary, so we postponed any big plans and went bowling. Angel had planned for us to go bowling at the place where we'd first gone bowling together with a friend before we were technically together, but it was closed. And I said there's another, cheaper, bowling rink, let's just go to that one instead. We did. I got him a wallet (leather). Angel got me pearl earrings and a necklace. In March, we had our postponed trip, a weekend in Chicago staying in an Airbnb apartment and walking everywhere.

2014

First anniversary overseas. Photo taken in China. I got him a pewter rose (flowers). We spent two nights in Hong Kong, and one glorious, blissful day at Hong Kong Disneyland, where Angel bought me a tiara and I cried while watching the Lion King performance.

2015
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My wedding dress is now back in the land of its birth, but Angel's suit has finally traveled to its 3rd country. I don't know for sure how we're celebrating at the time of this post, though. ;)