1st Anniversary!

We did it! We made it through the first year of marriage - time really flew by and being married has been great! We've been celebrating for the past week or so. On May 10th we stayed at Laguna Cliffs for our free one night anniversary stay. It was a fun day and night remembering back to all the planning and fun we had at the wedding. We spent the day walking around Dana Point harbor and then laid out by the pool for a couple hours before going out for a nice dinner. Then this past Friday night Darren surprised me with tickets to see Wicked at The Pantages in LA. The show was really good and actually surprisingly funny. Today, our actual anniversary we aren't doing anything special since we are leaving for Europe on FRIDAY!! That is the real anniversary celebration!! We are both getting really excited and are probably going to start packing as early as tonight. We are still thinking about trying to see the new Indiana Jones movie on opening night, May 22 so we want to try and get all our packing done before then so we can see it. Our itinerary is below:



London - May 24 - May 27

Paris - May 27 - May 30

Barcelona - May 31 - June 1

Bologna - June 1

Venice - June 2

Cinque Terre - June 3 & 4

Florence - June 5

Rome - June 6

Flying home on June 7



One final note - just wanted to say thanks to everyone who sent messages and even cards and a special thanks to mom and dad for the beautiful flowers!



My next post will probably be all about our European vacation!



Love, Melissa and Darren

Mother's Day 2008

We spent a fun day at Disneyland for Mother's Day this year. It was my mom and dad, and Amanda and then Pam and Brent and the kids and John and Lou. The kids were very well behaved all day and Avery even went on Space Mountain for the first time. The weather was perfectly pleasant too. All in all a great day.

Love you mom!