Planting!

I had intended to create a terranium with a lid, but I couldn't find any pretty glass containers with lids! So I settled on these neat cylinder jars from Walmart. I placed some colorful rocks on the bottom, followed by potting soil and then put in the plant! It was super easy and I love the look! 

Geranium

I believe the back plant is a species of Dracena...

I think I may make a few more to place around the apartment.

Memories

This walk was one of the strongest memories I have of the wedding. My emotions were surging, my eyes tearing, and my smile shaking. As I walked down that aisle, I walked up with my past and present and had the amazing experience of connecting them to my future at the end. As I walked, I saw the individual faces of those family and friends whom I have loved deeply and who have helped me grow in amazing ways. My father's arm reminded me of all our precious times together and the times when our family was growing up and all at home. Memories flooding in of my father practicing his karate downstairs or dancing to "Sixteen Tons" with us, my mother talking with us about the Faith or all the times I lied my head in her lap to vent or obtain advice, and of all the various adventures I had with my sisters.

And that amazing moment when I looked up and saw the man who had loved me so well and so completely throughout our courtship and engagement. I felt the sureness and trust of his continued and undying love. It is a love that we have deemed has "eternal immensitude". Anthony's kind eyes and beaming smile melted my heart at the end of that aisle and mine was melded with his in the Sacrament of Matrimony. God is so very good and I am so excited Anthony is now a part of my past, present and eternal future.

Nuptial Mass Consecration

"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death. By the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste -or foretaste- of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man's heart desires."

~ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to his son.

It is so beautiful to have someone with whom I can share a complete love of the one true Faith. 

Love

"Loves requests always to be amazed at the other one and at what he or she is.

You cannot love if you consider the one you love as a machine about which you know everything.

Love is still greater when you know that you do not deserve to be loved by the other one.  Then it becomes awesome! Then, you can both say. 'thank you'."

~ From our Wedding Sermon written by Canon Jayr of St. Stanislaus

Married for 11 days now!

Bliss!

Our previous record of seeing each other consecutive days was four days due to our long distance relationship. I love being married, I love my husband, and I love seeing my best friend every day!

More photos to come!

One Day!

"The things that we love tell us what we are." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

So blessed that this man's goodness rubs off on me! 

Six Days!

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.” 

~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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Bed Set - Check! 

So happy to have found this pretty piece on Craigslist!

Big thanks to my Aunt for sending me the link, to my Mom for checking it out and my Dad and Uncle for moving it into our new apartment!