a perfect celebration

we haven't been married that long, but our anniversary seems to always get the shaft.  this year it's that my honey is in LA for the weekend at a stanford thing.  sooo, we celebrated thursday night instead.  and it. was. perfect.

several weeks ago, i curled my hair for the first time in umm a really long time... like ten years probably.  it was because i was insanely bored and i thought it would be fun to try something new for our date night (it was the most recent time we went to the nuggets game) and my doesn't-ever-notice-anything-ever husband kept commenting on how much he liked my hair.  who knew?!

and then i never curled my hair again.  whoops.

so i decided i should curl my hair for our anniversary date.  i am pleased to say that instead of taking a million hours like it did last time, that it took about four or five minutes and no teasing or hairspray or messing with.  just curled six chunks of hair, let it cool, flipped my hair over to shake it out, and called it good.

i won't lie... i felt kinda cool.  like all of the pretty girls at church.  y'know... all the cool moms.

also happy that later in the day, my hair still had some wave to it!  i'm thanking zero humidity colorado for that one.  i couldn't believe it. 

we had been planning to go out to bonefish grill, but then i happened to glance through a carrabba's menu online and found a number of delicious cheesy dinner options i wanted to try, as well as this little beauty that i promptly took a picture of and texted to my honey with a "actually, i think we should go to carrabba's... and make sure to save room for this dessert" kind of text.  thankfully he was on board.

he walked in the door with a card (my only request for any special occasion) and a long stemmed rose.  it's kind of our thing.  i can't even count how many roses he gave me while we were dating and newly married.  sometimes he'd just walk in the door after a regular day of work... with a rose for me.  and they were always so pretty.  white, yellow, purple, peach, red, pink, and some of those ones that are blended with multiple colors.  sooo, the single rose is pretty significant for me.  he stole my heart all over again when he walked in the door with that rose.

then my awesome mother in law came over to watch our kids.  i like not having to pick up or pay a babysitter but what i really really really love is being able to leave my children and not have to worry about them one single bit.  dinner was great.  the food was excellent (honey got a pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms which was delish and i got the seafood cannelloni which was absolutely superb.  and we got that "chocolate dream" for dessert of course... also a winner) and the company and conversation was perfect.  we talked about what we want our next trip or two to be.  honey really wants to go to alaska but i'm not in a hurry for that so we're thinking peru to see machu picchu with going to the congo on our two or three year plan (we'll have to skillfully work that around nursing and pregnancy).  making big plans for our future (like buying a house and having kids) was always one of my favorite things to plan and talk about while we were dating/engaged/newly married and it turns out, it still is.  but now we get to plan trips!  anyways, it was all perfection.

six years!

we were done with dinner by 8 or something and had time to kill.  i really wanted to look at furniture on our way home (am i the only one that gets giddy walking through furniture stores?!) and after asking me four times if i was really being serious, honey pulled a u-turn (since by that time he'd long passed the furniture store) and humored me with some furniture browsing. 

we decided we needed this office set... until we were too lazy to even add up how many thousands of dollars it would cost.  we'll list it for later.  ; )

we decided we would not like to purchase this table and four chairs for $2105... paying $265 for each additional chair.

but we actually are in the market for a new kitchen table and this one was maybe my favorite option.

and then we were going to go home until i last minute said "noo!!!  turn right!  turn right!  let's go to ross!" because, for some strange reason, shopping at ross also makes me giddy.  i could spend hours in there.  seriously.  i told honey that baby girl needed these shoes (and he was actually not putting up a fight about getting them!  like when we left the store he was all "wait, you're not getting those pink shoes?!") but i couldn't convince myself to get them knowing that baby girl actually already has a pair of hot pink slip on shoes that i got for her on clearance from target for just a few bucks.  buuuuut i still don't know if this was the right decision because i can't stop thinking about these little pink polo toes.

and then when we got home, i opened honey's card and he opened his gift.

i know just what he likes.  it is wonderful that i can buy his happiness for $2 in the form of chocolate twizzlers.

reading the sappy, sentimental note i wrote on the inside of this book.

milk duds, book with love quotes, chocolate twizzlers, and chips.  $5 present to celebrate our five years of marriage (that's an inside joke... last year honey's card wished me a happy fourth anniversary... so now we just subtract a year).

so now, even though i'm missing my honey on our anniversary (it's after midnight!  i need to go to sleep...) i'm  pretty content just replaying our perfect celebration from last night.

these six years have been good to us.  i can't wait for a million more.