Seven Years

We celebrated our anniversary today! Seven years. It was a crazy day - fitting for the two crazy people we are (insert sarcasm here!).

Truly it was a beautiful day today, similar to the day we got married. The girls slept in which meant we got to sleep in, as well. The truck took our tree trimmings, which Mr. T had been so worried about (they weren't as much "trimmings" as huge chunks of tree removed from the backyard). Miss Mouse came running in around 9:30 yelling "garbage truck!!" When we asked if she'd like to watch it, she said "Yeeeaahh", as in "obviously".

The rest of the day was spent on yardwork for Mr. T. He's doing a remarkable job getting trees down on his own. We've tried several times to entice a professional tree service into the job, and we just get no response. I think they look at me - stay at home mom in ratty shorts with little ones running around - find out my husband is a pastor, and decide that either the job is too big for them to tackle, or that we couldn't afford them even if they did!! :) Anyway, he's doing a great job on his own, even though it worries me to see him hanging in a tree stand on a rather spindly-looking old tree!

The girls and I had multiple outings. The carseat is a good head stabilizer for Baby Mouse, so we had two short stroller rides this morning and one very long one this afternoon. Miss Mouse was treated to a stop at the park where she has turned into quite the little monkey. It's neat to see how adventurous and sure-footed she is this spring as compared to last spring when I had to still help her up the stairs. I still hover behind her, just in case.

Mr. T treated his girls to quite the meal tonight. The menu was: appetizer=crackers with havarti cheese and proscuitto, main course=baked potatoes, broiled trout with lemon, dill, white pepper, butter sauce, sauteed asparagus with tomatoes, baby portabella mushrooms, and feta cheese. It was tasty stuff! I treated us to ice cream for dessert. Miss Mouse was happy with her dried apricots, though we had to limit her on those.....her Daddy had an experience once with a whole pound of them.....

It was a beautiful day. We've had several beautiful anniversaries, weatherwise, and we've had several horrible anniversaries experience-wise. Hopefully this will be the start of a year that mirrors the day today!

Happy Anniversary! One cat, one dog, one graduate degree earned (after marriage), one move, two houses, three babies, and seven years later - I wouldn't have wanted to experience them with anyone else.