two whole years.

it's been two years since austin and i said our vows to each other. and although our anniversary this year landed on a tuesday, which meant austin had to work, we were still able to celebrate.

austin had flowers delivered to me at the house. aren't they pretty? he was even thoughtful enough to get stargazer lilies added to the bouquet since i had those flowers in my wedding bouquet. he's a keeper, for real, y'all.

after austin got home from work, we headed out to dinner at 212 market downtown. it was delicious and i even tried some new things! for starters i had the herbed goat cheese crostini and austin had the fried georgia quail breast. for our meal i ordered the housemade spinach and walnut ravioli and austin had the wild caught shrimp and falls mill stoneground grits. and i accidentally ate a bunch of green onions. i thought they were green beans. true story.

for dessert and in order to incorporate cotton {the traditional second anniversary gift} i had made some cotton candy cupcakes at home. i even made them pink and green as a nod to our wedding colors. aren't they pretty?

i think they look like they belong at some sort of dr. suess inspired party.

also in order to keep our tradition of cake and champagne on our anniversary austin picked us out a bottle to pop open. the plan i had was to have the cupcakes and champagne at midnight when it was officially our anniversary, just like we did last year, but juliet decided that was not going to happen when she broke out into a rash/hives all over her little tummy and then threw up all night... so we waited to have the cake and champagne after our dinner date instead.

fortunately, the champagne was tasty.

the cupcakes, however, were a complete and total fail.

they were hard as rocks. so hard that i could barely get the fork through it to cut it. and they were completely inedible. and being the sweets-lover that i am, i will suffer through some mediocre desserts if i have to, but two bites of this and i was done so you know it was bad. they're all going straight to the trash. i was really disappointed, but it was a weird recipe {you failed me, pinterest} and i could tell when i mixed it up that things weren't looking great.

fortunately, i was smart enough to know that the cupcakes were going to suck, so austin and i ordered some desserts to go from 212, just in case. and although i haven't eaten my cheesecake yet, i know it's going to be de.lish.

so that was that. our second wedding anniversary celebration complete with flowers, dinner, drinks, and desserts. and dog vomit. all the essentials, right?