6 Years!!

On August 6th, we celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary!  It's hard to believe 6 years have gone by already!  Unfortunately on the day of our anniversary, I was second shooting a wedding so we had to put off our dinner plans for a bit...but we did enjoy watching our wedding DVD that night when I got home!  It was so much fun going back to that special day...watching us exchange vows and making a lifetime commitment to each other.  The Lord has truly challenged us and blessed us over these 6 years...and I have loved it all!  It's amazing how much more you love your spouse as time goes on and you build your life together!

Thursday I got a text from my sweet husband (who had been out of town for work all week) that I needed to be packed and ready to go out of town for the weekend by early Friday afternoon!  I literally cried when I received his text...we haven't been out of town together since Sept '07 and we have never been out of town for our anniversary, so to say I was excited is a huge understatement!!!

Friday I dropped the girls off with my in-laws and impatiently waited for my husband to get home so we could start our weekend!  When he got home, he still wouldn't tell me where we were going, but I didn't care...we were about to have a whole weekend just the 2 of us!!!!  We ended up heading to Chattanooga!  He had the whole weekend planned out!  We stayed in a nice hotel in downtown Chattanooga that was walking distance to all kinds of restaurants & the aquarium!

Friday night we went to dinner at Big River then enjoyed dessert at Ben & Jerry's!  My sweet husband knows how much I crave B&J's when I'm pregnant and had planned our trip there!!  There was a baseball game that night next to our hotel so we got to enjoy the fireworks from our hotel!

 Just a quick picture on the river before dinner

Saturday we had a very nice breakfast at our hotel...they had AMAZING french toast...then we headed to the aquarium!  We wanted to do Rock City but it was just too hot and I was exhausted so we headed back to the hotel and took a nap!  Then we got ready to go have our 2 week belated anniversary dinner at Easy Bistro and Bar!

 Beautiful macaws

 In the butterfly garden at the aquarium

 Shark tank fun

 Closest I'll ever get to being in a shark tank!

 Here we are at Rock City...well standing outside it

 Hotel lobby before dinner

Had a wonderful anniversary dinner here!!!

On our hotel balcony

Sunday we enjoyed another breakfast at the hotel (I'm telling you, the french toast was AMAZING!!) then we went to Ruby Falls!!  Hiking for a mile while pregnant isn't so bad when you're in a cool, dark cave!

About to go see Ruby Falls!

Beautiful rocks inside the falls

 Gorgeous!

 Almost to the falls!

 Ruby Falls!!

Happy 6 year Anniversary to us!!!!!

This was such a wonderful weekend!  I'm so very thankful for my loving & thoughtful husband for putting this all together and making our anniversary so special!!  I'm truly blessed to have such an amazing man for my husband and to have him as the father of our children!  These have been an amazing 6 years and I look forward to the rest of our lives together!!

What a beautiful day

"This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."  

Psalms 118:24

That's a beautiful verse and something I try to do each day...but must admit I have been failing to do as of late.  This heat...it's made a difficult summer even more difficult.  Even though I'm grateful for each day and for all my blessings...whew it's easy to be grumpy when you're drenched in sweat, pregnant & still struggling with nausea and carting 2 kids around. 

It's been a hot summer for most of us...which is why when I walked outside this morning, I stopped in my tracks and felt it.  The slightest hint of fall.  The high today was 87* and felt amazing!!  My dad and step-mom came over for a play date with the girls and we actually got to enjoy our backyard and the girls' new swing-set!!!  We spent the whole morning outside playing on the swing-set, playing chase, swimming in the pool (little plastic pool but still...a pool!)  It was wonderful!

I wish I had been good and got the camera out to get pictures but we were having too much fun playing!  Here's a picture of the swing-set the day it was FINALLY completed.  It's been sitting there for about a month waiting to be played on but it's just been too hot.

I know fall is a long way off (cooler weather-wise) but I was SO grateful for the little reminder today that it's coming.  I'm so grateful to have had such a beautiful day with family and to create those special memories.