our second anniversary!

the traditional anniversary gift for year 2 is cotton!

in february i asked a woman from church to help me make a quilt for jon. he and i drove up to escondito and picked out four different soft fabrics! after that, he didn't see the fabric until i gave him the (almost) finished quilt.

 nancy helped me decide on the fabric for the border and the back part of the quilt. the fabric is soo cozy.

 i'm not obsessed with how the back turned out. it looks bunched up, but it is SO! much better than the first couple times i tried. i stitched like four lines diagonally and was very surprised to turn it over and see it pulled in all directions. i spent a lot of time unpicking. the back still doesn't look perfect. i used a sewing machine to do it which wasn't the best way, but it worked out alright!

 the front looks much better. 

 i spent hours and hours and hours hand stitching the border all around the quilt. i watched all 8 seasons of desperate housewives while making this. (so worth it)

we celebrated on may 18th even though our anniversary is the 11th. i was working a lot at proflowers during the mother's day season, so we waited and it worked out well! i printed 22 of my favorite pictures of jon and i during our first two years of marriage, wrote on the back and hung them from balloons in our bedroom for jon to find. it was so fun! it was also fun when we tied the mostly deflated balloons to rumbi's collar and watched her run around the house in fear. how sad!

jon is such a dear. he got me flowers and a card plus new socks (cotton) (also, who doesn't love new socks?) and printed this cute picture of us soon after we got engaged on canvas (cotton)! he had it displayed on the computer because the convas hadn't come yet. you can see it in our living room here!!

we spent the afternoon and evening riding our bikes around coronado island. we came here on our first anniversary but we didn't plan it like that. we just wanted to have a nice place to site see while riding around and coronado definitely delivered. the neighborhoods and houses are so charming!! wouldn't that be a nice place to retire? 

 we tried to light our lanterns on the beach but it did not go well! it was so windy. we drove around until we found an empty field to send them off from. this is my favorite tradition of ours, it is so much fun. we are going to be soo outnumbered on our 7th, 8th, 9th anniversaries before we have kids and grandkids to help us!

another successful anniversary with my favorite human in the world! so glad i married him, i love him more and more with every passing year. 

first anniversary celebrations here!