Upcoming Anniversary
I can’t believe that Atkins and I have been married for almost a year! It’s been a great year. We went on an amazing honeymoon in February and have really been enjoying working and living in Chicago. Our love and friendship has continued to grow throughout this year and we are truly and deeply happy!
I hope this cake is as delicious one year later as it was on the day of the wedding. Hm. What an interesting tradition.
This year is going to be another busy one! We are planning on moving in a bit closer to the city. While we have loved our apartment and our neighborhood for almost two years now, we are getting a little tired of the long El ride or drive in to visit friends. We’re looking at a younger, more vibrant neighborhood where we can get out and do more things.
We’re also trying to find a place with a little more character. Don’t get me wrong, our view is second to none, but the apartment itself is a little, well, boring. Add to that the fact that the cheap carpet coupled with the low humidity in the winter turned our cats into lightning bolt factories and fried some of our electronics and you can see why we want to bail.
So, we’re looking quite a bit at the Lincoln Square area. It’s a nice neighborhood, close to Atkins’s work, and there are a lot of pretty two- and three-flats with nice apartments. These apartments boast such amenities as: seeing trees, windows on more than one side of the building and only one or two neighbors.
We are going to look at five promising places this Saturday, so I’m sure I’ll be posting soon with the results of our expedition.
Okay, back to the anniversary thing. I’m a little disjointed today. ;)
We are planning on having a party. Originally, we were going to have a Chicago reception after we got back from the wedding for all our friends here who were unable to make it out to Colorado. Due to exhaustion and financial concern (we had just paid for, you know, a wedding) this never really came to fruition.
So, we thought it would be fun to have a get-together for our friends in the Chicago area (and anyone else who would like to travel to said Chicago area) at the end of May to celebrate our anniversary. I’m going to start looking around for restaurants and getting price quotes and things like that. It’ll be funsies! Mark your calendars. Buy your plane tickets.
And look for new blog posts to come soon!
Love you guys!