As of March 10th the hubby and I have been married for 9 years! When I put that into perspective and I think about 9 years before I was married I was only 11 years old. Weird. I'm trying to decide my strategy for making the next 9 years slow down a little. If I come up with a solution, I'll let you know.
We celebrated a little more this year because we figured if we are going to bring another baby into the family it probably will happen sometime next year and who wants to be puking their guts out on there big 10 year Anniversary. So we pretended this was the big 1...0... and celebrated accordingly. Am I the only one that plans her life this way? ;-)
On the day of our actual anniversary these were delivered to my door.
18 of them!
(Can you tell Sam took my picture?)
(Can you tell Sam took my picture?)Although I had instructions to only keep 9 and give the rest to the kids. Every year Brandt gives me roses according to the number of years we've been married. So sweet! The thing is, it was cheaper to by 18 then to get just 9. I'm not complaining! And the girls where ecstatic to get roses from Dad.
Then we went away for the weekend for some R & R. We started with dinner at Applebee's which was mostly yummy but I'll avoid the wings in the future. Not my favorite. But the rest of the huge platter I engulfed was great. Of course I had to have a dessert to go along with the million calories I just ate. Especially after our waiter did a dessert temptation dance for us. I thought it was hilarious! Brandt thought he was a big weirdo. Either way it became the theme for the night. Pretty dang funny.
After dinner we caught a flick. I think "Blind Side" just made my top ten movie list. Loved it! Brandt even splurged and bought me a drink. HaHa! Is it sad that I didn't figure it out until a day later that Tim McGraw was the husband? I kept looking for him in the movie but didn't recognize him without his hat and facial hair. I'm slow.
Brandt was in charge of the night's stay and he booked us a room at the Anniversary Inn. Our room theme was "Savannah Nights" and my favorite feature was the turret,a fun enclosed balcony with a little breakfast nook. I think Brandt enjoyed the big screen where we could catch a little March Madness. There was this random gold angel in the bath tub and the shower head came out of it's mouth. Brandt thought it looked like it was smoking a pipe, I thought it looked like it was barfing. We're so romantic. :) Oh, and the cheesecake is always a bonus.
The next day we were going to just head home but when I called my Mom she said the kids had just each rented a movie so we should just stay out for the rest of the day. NICE! We weren't quite sure what to do with ourselves. We ended up enjoying a lunch at Olive Garden and doing a little shopping. Brandt got himself a lovely new set of Deerskin work gloves and I got this book that should be arriving by mail any day now.
Yum!
What a wonderful weekend. I have the best hubby ever and we really enjoyed spending so much time together just between the two of us. It's hard to break away from the duties at home so thank you Mom for becoming a servant to three kids for a while.
What a wonderful weekend. I have the best hubby ever and we really enjoyed spending so much time together just between the two of us. It's hard to break away from the duties at home so thank you Mom for becoming a servant to three kids for a while.
This is one of the snapshots I took and while I was editing it in Photoshop I spotted a friend in the back going to work...and not on his craft either..jpg)
Last night a girlfriend and I decided we needed a little "me time" so we grabbed a good book, some snacks, and headed up to the USU library to read into the night. It was great. A much needed break. I will be penciling this on my calendar EVERY month. Let me know if you want in on the R&R and we'll get some collaboration going on.