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So this is all new to me and I decided tonight to try it out. I figure it is like a diary online that everyone can see right? Well however you choose to use it I am going to use it as a way of collecting all of my major events of our first year of marriage. I want to be able to come back to this later on in life and read all about what happened during our first year. I have been told that the first year is the hardest...so far I have to say that I am enjoying marriage immensity!

Matthew and I were married January 2, 2010. Yes that is 01-02-2010; the same what forward and backward. And no we did not plan the date to be a palindrome it just so happened that we discovered that after we decided on the date. It is now March 4th, a couple months and a couple days since we have been married so I am a little late on the year of blogging but I just discovered how easy it is today. I am excited to get started with this whole task. I am challenging myself to continue to stick with this blog for the whole year even when life gets busy.

It may be that not many people will read this blog or become followers of my blog but like I said this is mainly for my own sanity and memory. I look forward to my next post!

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April Update

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