I love it when I get in bed after a late night of hacking and Christina curls up next to me in her sleep.

As the title suggests, Christina and I are now entering our second year of marriage. However, we won't do it without first celebrating our first anniversary, August 18, 2008!

I'm looking forward to the day (which officially starts in one minute) and to dinner and conversation with my wife tomorrow evening. I believe it's going to be homemade (gluten free) pizza with some wine from the Biltmore Estate (where we went on our honeymoon) and some cheesecake for dessert.

Ahh, yes... the cheesecake. Apparently, someone at some time thought it was a good idea to save wedding cake to eat on your first anniversary. I like my cake to be fresh or at least recent. A year old??? I'm just not sure how that'll go, but I'm willing to try. You learn to just do things like this after being married for a year.

We'll have a quiet celebration here at home followed by a celebration in Budapest, Hungary next week before heading down to Drupalcon Szeged 2008. We're very thankful to God for such a wonderful opportunity on our first anniversary. We've had nothing but blessing since our marriage... and that itself was a HUGE blessing.

So, it's now officially my anniversary, and I get to go set out the new coffee maker I bought Christina. Hopefully that will put her in an even better mood in the morning so that anticipation can build for making that pizza a little extra special. Dare I ask for grilled chicken??? Mmm...

My wife is patient, kind, and encouraging, and she loves me more than I deserve. She's also adorable:

I love you, Christina.