Anniversary Celebration at Home

I have already blogged about our anniversary celebration in Hawaii, so now it's time to share about our anniversary celebration at home!

First, we came home from vacation to find that our table had been decorated and set for breakfast by my mom. She did the same thing for us last year when we got back from our honeymoon. She used "Hawaii" scrapbook paper for placemats, and gave us sparkling grape juice (a staple in the Ward house), a banana for Ross, and a cinnamon crunch bagel for me.

Sunday night Ross and I celebrated our anniversary for the final time with a nice dinner in our dining room (we hardly ever eat in there) and ate off of our china plates. I also burned the unity candle we lit together during our wedding ceremony. Good times, and yes, I had to document it with a picture, which Ross LOVES :)

Then came the part we waited for for over one year, literally.

Eating the cake topper from our wedding cake! The cake topper has been in our freezer and we were really looking forward to eating it, wondering if it would taste good or not. (On a side note, it is so nice to have that out of our freezer! It took up a whole shelf and it's nice to now have that space available.) We got the cake out and found that it had been wrapped pretty well in several layers of foil, so were hopeful that it wasn't freezer burned.

Wedding cake then...

...wedding cake now!

To our enjoyment, the cake tasted pretty good! The icing was SO sweet and the cake still had it's flavor. It was much better on 4/17/10, but not too bad for being in our freezer for over one year. We have been enjoying eating it this week!

When we fed each other the cake on our wedding day, we were pretty nice to each other. We didn't smash the cake in each others faces, just fed each other in a nice, clean manner.

Not so much the second time around! I used the engraved knife we had from our wedding and we cut the cake together, and then had fun smashing the cake on each other. Fun times!