anniversary

Celebrating

All sorts of celebrations have been happening around the Zottola household lately! Jimmy and I had our anniversary, I turned 25-years-old, and we had a Father’s Day cookout.

Our anniversary and my birthday (yeah, we were married on my birthday!) fell on a Wednesday this year. My dad took me out to lunch at Osaka, which is a Sushi and Chinese restaurant. It was our first time there, and we throughly enjoyed it! What I loved the most, though, was sharing a meal with my dad 🙂

Sushi restaurant meal

I’m pretty sure we’re the only ones in our family who like sashimi and sushi, so we always enjoy chowing on some raw fish together!

On Friday, Jimmy and I took the day off work and celebrated our anniversary! I had to pet sit, but we made the best of it and took one of the dogs out on a trail walk with us in the morning. Then we got coffee at Dunkin Donuts, shopped for my anniversary gift from Jimmy, and enjoyed lunch at Cracker Barrel!

Trail walk with chocolate lab

The trail was so peaceful first thing in the morning!

Dunkin Donuts Coffee

Jimmy was so sweet and thoughtful with my anniversary gift. He told me to pick out a bistro table for our front porch! I had been wanting a little bistro set for a long time, and I thought it was so nice that Jimmy remembered that and let me pick it out!

We bought the table from Lowe’s, and the chairs from Target. We had dinner on the bistro set that evening, and I had coffee and read my Bible on it the next morning. I love it! Thank you, Jimmy! And in case anyone was wondering, I bought him the PlayStation 4 gaming console for his gift, haha.

Blue Bistro Table

The book on top of the pile is this one, the second one is Cherish by Gary Thomas, the third is my journal, and the fourth is my Bible!

On Saturday evening, we had our families over to celebrate Father’s Day. We grilled shish kebabs, lit sparklers, and celebrated our dads. Their gift? Us kids are taking them go karting soon!

Grilling shish kebabsSparklers

So, yeah, lots of fun celebrations lately! Reflecting on all of them makes me feel so happy, blessed, and loved. I’m beyond thankful for the people God has placed in my life and the fact that I get to celebrate with them!

How was your weekend?

Three Years

Jimmy and I have been married for three years now. The past three years have been so incredibly blessed, fun, and joyful.

Wedding picture outside of church bride and groom

We’ve traveled, adopted a cat, had countless get-togethers, served in our church, worked on house projects, put up with Lola’s antics, taken pictures, planted gardens, spent time with friends, celebrated with our families, taken walks, caught Pokemon, napped, baked, laughed, visited new babies in the hospital, filmed vlogs, danced, played video games, cooked, and so many other things.

We’ve been through sickness, health problems, and disappointments. We’ve attended funerals and cried together. We’ve had hard days, busy days, grumpy days, and days when we hardly saw each other.

We talk about the future, and wonder what it will be like. We talk about the past and reminisce. Through it all, the one constant has been God. Each day, we pray together, and we thank God for the ways in which he has blessed us. We aim to keep Him first in our lives, always. My prayer for our marriage is that we will continue to serve God together and put Him first in all that we do.

Happy anniversary, Jimmy! I love you so much!