Three, you’re the only one for me

Anniversary #2 was a long distance one. Mac finally got Skype set up, and we managed to video chat once a week until he came home for R&R in July. We did some speed wedding planning and took our engagement photos.

Mac headed back to Afghanistan to finish out his tour. One of my friends had football season tickets, so we went to Blacksburg for several games.

Including my 23rd birthday.

I went wedding dress shopping over Thanksgiving and made my wish at David’s Bridal when I found my dress.

Two weeks later, my wish came true when Mac came home.

A week after that, we decided to get married.

Then we headed off on a road trip to visit our families for Christmas.

Virginia Tech thankfully made a BCS bowl, so our post-deployment vacation was spent in the Big Easy. We rang in the New Year and watched Danny Coale catch that pass.

We got back into a routine of normalcy and forged on with our wedding planning.