Today is our 10 year anniversary! We've made a million memories and shared just as many laughs. We've made 2 amazing girls. This is the one God picked for me and I am so blessed. I can't wait for another 50! Happy Anniversary, babe! I love you SO much!
Our 9th anniversary was last week. We started off the day by having breakfast after I dropped the girls off at preschool. Later that evening, we headed out of town to one of the best local restaurants. It was the perfect day with the perfect man. I am so blessed to call him mine. I am so very thankful for him every day. I love you so much!
Honeymoon in Barbados
So cool to see a space shuttle launch when we flew over Florida.
I am way past due on writing this blog... With crazy napping schedules and hectic days, there isn't much computer time lately.
We went to Edisto Island, SC September 7-14. We left the day after Madison's birthday/party and were there during our 8 year wedding anniversary! Riley also turned 8 months while we were there. It was a good time frame to go.
Madison wasn't crazy about the beach and the sand. She did love the pool though! On the first day she wore a life jacket swim suit and felt very comfortable in it. She would just float around the pool all by herself(with us nearby, of course). So the next day, we just let her use swimmies and a regular swim suit and she did the same thing. She would jump off the side and go underwater. She only got water in her mouth a couple of times. She's a natural swimmer like her Daddy! We had a nice time!
Here are a ton of pics from our trip!
Our anniversary looks a tad different this year ;)
She was so independent!
Tram ride to the pool!
Alan took Madison to the beach alone a few times so I spent some time resting with Riley.
The first day out at the beach in the tent.
On a walk and she had to splash in all the puddles
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I bought tickets to see MUSE back in April. Back before I knew I was pregnant, which seems like an eternity ago! I confirmed with Alan that he could take off half a day Tuesday and all of Wednesday well in advance and told him I'd made surprise plans for our anniversary. I asked my mom if she would mind watching Madison that night since the concert was near her house. I also booked us a hotel room near the venue.
We decided to let Madison go to school Tuesday and pick her up at normal time and leave straight from there. We got to my mom's around 2 and visited a bit and then left to go check into our hotel by 3:30. We had a little bit of time so we took a nap! (you know you're parents when...) After our nap, we headed toward the concert venue to park and walk to get something to eat. We found a local BBQ place, ate and then walked to the concert. Cage the Elephant opened for them and they were pretty good. I knew one of their songs but their other songs were pretty decent!
There was a bit of an intermission and then MUSE came on. They really put on a great show complete with lights and lots of animation and video. Here are some videos of the concert. Be aware that there are strobes and lots of flashing lights in the videos.
The opening before they started the first song.
"Madness"
"Supermassive Black Hole"
I think we were back in the room by 11:30 or so and we both crashed! We slept until 10:00 Wednesday morning! We both felt refreshed! We missed breakfast so stopped to get a bite before picking Madison up. We got to my mom's right around 12:30 and visited a bit. Madison had the best time! She was asleep within 5 minutes of being in the car!
We made a stop by a local consignment shop and a few baby shops and then headed to IKEA, where we toyed with the idea of moving Madison to a toddler bed and giving Riley her crib. After lots of debating, we decided that none of us were ready for that step just yet and that we will just get Riley her own crib :) We did score Madison a cute circus tent and nesting cups for her birthday and hopefully Alan the pillow he's been searching high and low for. I could spend all day and a ton of money in IKEA. Thank goodness the closest one is 2 hours away! We made it home by 7:30 and Madison was ready for bed! We had a great time together and look forward to the next few days of Madison's birthday and her party! Happy early 7th anniversary, babe! I love you more than words!
The photographer we hired came an hour before the party started to take some pictures of Madison and I also requested some pictures of just Alan and myself since it was our 6 year annivesary and the last picture of just us was when I was pregnant :) If you are close friends or family, I will be emailing a Shutterfly link later to all of the pictures from that day. I will blog her birthday party pictures in the next week :)
