Happy 11th Anniversary Matt! 
Last year I wrote a post about the story of our love http://ispeakwhine-fluently.blogspot.com/2010/07/love-story.html.  How Katy and Matt came to be.  I liked it a lot and I don't think I can top it, so for this post I thought I would just recap some of the highlights of our marriage from the past year. 
1.    We have not changed a single diaper in one full year.  That is worth celebrating!
2.    Savannah
3..   Family trip to North Georgia.  Lots and Lots of snow!
4.    Family trip to Sea World.
5.    Family trip to Alabama. Gotta love that lake!
6.    After dinner car rides.
7.    Brewing Beer.  Lots and Lots of beer!
8.    Converty Friends
9.    Front porch steps
10.  Saturday mornings spent listening to itunes and sipping coffee
11.  Scary movie nights
12.  Cabin camping at Gold Head
13.  Goodwill shopping.  Lots and Lots of Goodwill!

To Matt




When I see myself

I'm seeing you too
as long as I remember

and I'm feeling like I knew

that my jokes aren't funny

the truth isn't true

if there was no you



If you were my boat in the deep blue sea

I probably sink you down

I know I should have thanked you for carrying me

but for you I will happily drown



All along your way

the darkest night the longest day

I know what to say to make you laugh

and nothing you could do

could make me turn my back on you

when you're looking for a fight

I'm your man

when you need a friend

you got my hand



And what I really mean

what I'm trying hard to say

is that I'm counting on you

and you got me too

my secrets aren't safe

I'm singing out of tune

if there was no you

if there was no you



All along your way

the darkest night the longest day

I know what to say to make you laugh

and nothing you could do

could make me turn my back on you

when you're looking for a fight

I'm your man

when you need a friend

you got my hand

when you need a friend

you got my hand

you got my hand

Matt and I took the kids on a little family vacation to Alabama.  We rented a lake house on Lewis Smith Lake and boy was it beautiful.  I had never been to Alabama, so I wasn't sure what to expect.  Come to find out it looks a lot like Georgia but without all the billboards. 

My parents came over on July 4th to eat ribs and hang out.  The kids rode bikes and drew pictures with sidewalk chalk.  The boys even did a little bit of boxing with the new gloves Matt bought for them.  Now tell me, what's more American than that?  After dinner we strolled downtown to watch the fireworks.  The blind mosquitoes were out in full force.  I was afraid to speak for fear that I might inhale a few of them.  One or two dive bombed my eyeballs, but I survived another riverfront fireworks display and so the tradition continues.