Our anniversary

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This is a thread that was started in our old BlissWeddings.com forums by Kim&Bob2004 on 10/13/05. Feel free to add your comments by pressing Post Reply.

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posted by Kim&Bob2004

Wow 1 year! :-) What a wonderful year it has been. There was just one thing that marred our celebration, a big one, imho. Saturday we had to put our dog Carl to sleep, the cancer had progressed to far and fast. We didn't want to, but to let it go any further would be cruel to a most loving and loyal friend. We wouldn't have continued with our plans if we wouldn't have already paid. As it was we didn't go to the zoo as neither Bob nor I felt much like looking at the zoo.

Saturday evening we went to eat at the space needle restaurant in Seattle WA. Let me say that if you want a landmark restaurant in Seattle to eat at, this is the place. But expect to spend the money! For the two of us, just entrées and a starter and a bottle of wine (Something Fish a really nice wine!!!) was well over 100.00 But Bob's cousin Gail was in town and wanted to go somewhere grand... :-) It was fun though. Sunday we explored Belltowne and my DH decided I needed a new camera. Just like that! So I got a new Nikon... LOL I never expected it, but he over ruled my protests! LOL We had fun in all the shops looked at Tiffany and company and I seen a necklace I liked and for grins asked the price... well it was a good deal I am told at 28,000.00, yes you read it right. I wouldn't even touch it! We also bought a bottle of wine to save back for a special occasion (Bob saves wines and likes having wines in his wine rack). After returning to our room at the Holiday Inn Express we got ready and ate at the Cellar Bistro in the Queen Anne area. Oh my! I can't stop gushing! The food was yummy and large portions and the wait staff was very attentive. When we told them it was our anniversary They said they wished the owner was there that night as he would have helped us celebrate. They a re a small family restaurant, not a corp owned thing. The wine there was scrumptious also.

The next day we went to Pike Place market and explored more downtown. I got my turkey melt! Ate dinner downtown, at a grill/bar type place. Had a drink called a Paradise and a Spicy Parrot… wow, one could drink those until they were really sloshed… and not know it until it was too late. After that day we were so tired we took the monorail back and walked from Seattle Center back the 4-5 blocks to our room. Tuesday we returned home, but did take the long way home. I seen Salmon in the green river getting ready to spawn, something I had never seen before. Fascinating but also sad, knowing each one of those fish would be dying soon.

Thank you all for you kind thoughts for us with our recent lose.... You are all so sweet.... I am on a yahoo Christian group and virtually no one wrote to say they would keep us in their prayer or thoughts. It is nice to know some people understand that Carl was like our child in many ways.


Blessings!
Love,
Kim--WA

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posted by feb-bride

Again, I'm sorry for the loss of your beloved pet, but I'm glad that you were still able to have a memorable anniversary weekend. Sounds like you had a lot of fun!

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posted by Marrying the Good Husband

Hey-hey, I'm sure you and Bob did some "spawning" of your own! Sorry, I couldn't resist! You ARE the couple who is always gettin' it on! I'm glad to hear you two had a fun weekend--despite losing Carl.

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posted by Kim&Bob2004

MTGH, yes we did some "spawning" of our own! LOL Actually losing Carl didn't really hit me until monday evening. We were in bed watching TV and I remembered that we wouldn't be going home to Carl.

I had never seen salmon spawn before and Bob just laughed when I said that those fish have it rough. I wouldn't want to die after having a big "o". Sometimes I think Bob doesn't know what to do with me! LOL anyway, last night was fab along with this morning. Yes we are the couple that "bangs a lot" I guess I thought everyone did! Remember I was virgin territory before we married...... Maybe I am making up for lost time? 'nother story though.... for another day.

Cleaning house today ohhhhh and I have a job interview for a on-call type job on tuesday. Would really like to get a part time job. Also playing phone tag with another possible job..... I am really looking forward to working a bit... paying bills off and meeting people. I have lived here a year now and have no personal female friends, it would be nice to meet some nice couples to hang with. Nothing wrong with Bob's single friends but still..... make sense?

Blessings!
Love,
Kim--WA

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posted by Marrying the Good Husband

Good point. You did have 35 years' worth built up there!! It's like your "teenage hormones" are just getting a start! Can I ask you, how WERE you able to wait?!?!

Good luck with the jobs!! I hope what you really want works out for you!!

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posted by Kim&Bob2004

MTGH, well before Bob it was farily easy to wait. No one really made me that serious toward them. I was always seeing all these faults in them. Too short, didn't want a real job, drank too much, No sense of humor, well you know...... anyway, Bob and I were dating a month before I even told him I was a virgin still, I think he suspected it... anyway by the time he gave me the promise ring in early june (a ring to wear until he got the "real ring") I was ready to jump him! LOL He laughs and says I actually attacked him one time when we were kissing.... LOL Anway, even the week of our wedding he had to keep telling me we had to wait. I know it was hard for him, maybe harder then for me, but let me say it was worth it! He said the whole time we were engaged he kept thinking about "taking his virgin bride and making her his wife" LOL Oh my gosh, even my DH has same cave man in him. Before Bob it was easy to say no, after meeting Bob he was the one who said we need to wait. :-)

Blessings!
Love,
Kim--WA

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posted by Marrying the Good Husband

That's sweet. I think it's so rare to hold that "gift" for your husband nowadays. Sounds like you two don't have any sexual compatibility issues!

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posted by HeatherR

That's wonderful Kim!

Also - I forgot to mention it in the other post, but I love that pic of your hubby by the water. His smile is so great! I'll bet he lights up a room...

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posted by Kim&Bob2004

Heather, that is one of my favorite pics of Bob too. And he does smile a lot. I like to make him to what I call the "crinkle around the eyes smile." So I sometimes say funny things just to see that smile of his. :-)

MTGH, I know it is rare to remain a virgin until marriage. I had actually given up on ever finding a love that made me feel this way. I thought something was seriously wrong with my noodle until I met Bob. As far as compatibility in bed, only that some test we took on another wedding sight said we both like to be the "boss in bed". I will admit that Bob gets seduced a lot, but I don't hear any complaining! He does his share of seducing too. I only have one issue, and it's more with myself then anythingn else. And I know I need to stop it! But sometimes (not as often as I use to at first) I try to compare myself to all of the "other women" in Bob's past. Wondering if I measure up, as time goes on I do this less and less, but everyonce in a while it does creep into my mind....... stupid I know... Does anyone else ever do this?

Blessings!
Love,
Kim--WA

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posted by Marrying the Good Husband

I think it's understandable why you'd be more sensitive to "the past" since you chose not to have one. I think when you have a "past" of your own, you don't really give it much thought, because you know you're not there comparing him to the others before him. Not to mention after break-ups people aren't exactly too "fond" of the exes, so I know he's not exactly taking a stroll down memory lane. From what I've heard, he's had a few exes who were VERY "adventurous" sexually, like in ways that I would just never be. But I also know a lot of that was THEIR fetishes that he doesn't exactly need himself, so I do tend to think regardless of what he's done before that we're a lot more sexually compatible. And I'm secure enough in our relationship that thoughts of him or even hearing him tell me stuff about them in bed doesn't bother me. I mean, it's not like he's TALKING about them, just like if things come up and it's like I ask if he's ever done certain things or whatever. But, you know, I think I've been way insecure in other relationships--I just have no reason to be with Dave.

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posted by Kim&Bob2004

Thank you MTGH...... I do try hard to not think about "them" and I am doing better, but sometimes.... I just slip up.

Blessings!
Love,
Kim--WA