9 years

This past 4th of July weekend we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary.  I have friends who take trips for their anniversary.  Others get each other nice, expensive gifts.  We are not that exciting (or rich).  The actual date of our anniversary is the 4th, but we started celebrating a little bit early.  First off we took a trip to Tyler on Saturday to buy a new shower door!  Just what every girl wants for her anniversary!  Our old shower door was really disgusting.  It was falling off the hinges, leaking everywhere, and was crusted over with rust.  So we bought a new one and spent the whole afternoon assembling it.  We did get to try out Chuy's before we came home though.  It was tasty food, but I don't know if it was worthy of all the hype surrounding it.

Sunday morning we got up early and took the motorcycle to Jacksonville for breakfast at Beverly's Country Cafe.  I love their hashbrowns!  Then the afternoon consisted of Michael going to deal with a sewer (he was on-call this weekend) and me doing laundry.  Let the party start! ;)

Then came Monday.  We exchanged presents over coffee...Michael wanted a cast-iron fish shaped pan thingy (to pour metal into) and I got Zumba for the wii.  We also bought a blender when we were in Tyler, so we blended up some smoothies!  Later we went to lunch at Jalapeno Tree and then bought some fireworks to light at home.  He invited his cousin and cousin's kid over that evening and we played in the driveway, lighting all kinds of fun stuff.  Let me just say that the quality of sparklers was really disappointing.  The "morning glory" sparklers that shoot different kinds of sparks were really sad.  They kept going out.  It's no fun dancing around with a sparkler like a huge dork when they won't stay lit!  So they made a quick run and found the old school wire sparklers, the ones that look like punks.  They only do one kind of spark, but they worked!  I will only buy those from now on for my dweeby dancing purposes.

So that's it.  That is how we celebrated 9 years of marriage.  It was a truly great weekend!