Year One

It has officially been one year since Ricky and I have been married. It's been a crazy year at that.

This is one of my favorite wedding photos.

Starting with a crazy week of finalizing all the plans and actually getting married, A honey moon that was one night in a hotel that was freezing and smelt like sulfur and waking up to 3-4 inches of snow, a week of living with his mom till he was supposed to drive to Texas, and a spur of the moment decision that left me jobless and in the car with him.

This was actually right before we started our three day drive to Texas. We were so excited that we could just get up and leave and no one could tell us what to do.

I remember the week or 2 that we spent in a hotel trying to find someplace to live, until the guy at the housing department finally gave us a house that was "above Ricky's pay grade."

I was so excited to have a house to live in.

The month or two that we spent sleeping on an air mattress and eating off a card table cause that was all we could afford to do.

Our house looked so pitiful.

The months of boring nothingness cause I was too scared to go anywhere or do anything, and it drove Ricky crazy, till finally he convinced me that getting a job would be a good thing, and that sharing the car wouldn't be as hard as it might seem.

This picture is actually from Ricky's birthday last year.

I remember getting asked to be primary pianist, and it taking about a month or more before they actually sustained me to that position, even though I had been playing the entire time.

This is the only picture I could find of me and a keyboard. I look so pretty in it.

I remember Ricky's mom and step-dad coming down and bringing most of our wedding presents cause they wouldn't fit in our car. They really helped us out then too by buying our table and chairs and a tv for us.

Here's the table. The house still looked bare back then but it sure looks better then just the card table.

I remember getting our couches and how upset Ricky was at how long it took for them to delivered, after we had bought them.

This doesn't show our furniture too well but it does show that we have some and the tv from Ricky's parents.

I remember having to use the GPS for the longest time cause we would get lost if we didn't.

I remember the day I found out my dad's cancer had spread to the brain and that we were barely able to afford a plane ticket to get me home.

And that dad died not long after Ricky got there.

And that Ricky was alway quick to make sure I was still able to laugh, and he didn't mind that I cried a lot or was moody with him for the few months.

And that he still made me live life and go out and have fun, cause it was alright to.

I remember Thanksgiving, we threw a big party cause everyone was away from family.

This is just to show how many we were planning on. It was a lot of fun.

I remember Christmas and how we weren't even supposed to have one but Ricky lucked out and got work off for it so we had a party with the sister missionaries and one of Ricky's friends from work.

This is the only kind of real group picture I got for Christmas. And it really doesn't even show Sister Ficken very well at all.

Here's Sister Smith. I would feel bad if I didn't put her in here.

I remember that my birthday was lame, but I didn't mind cause I was with Ricky.

I think I've probably used this picture before but I don't really mind showing it again.

I remember how frustrating trying to get a truck was cause we had and still don't really have any credit.

Now I know I've used this one before.

And now I'm back to today! I just hope that this coming year is just as good.