12 Years

Another year of marriage and another anniversary to celebrate.  We were really looking forward to this year, nothing big just a date night out.  Since May 1st, it seems like our lives have been non-stop busy and Neil and I just don't really live at that pace because we don't really like that pace.  It started with Tristan's birthday on the 1st where Neil left from the party to go on a business trip, home for the weekend, then off to another week long business trip where he picked his brother and his family up on the way home and we had a nice visit for a week with them.  The day after our guest left, Tristan got really sick and then Neil left for another business trip.  Since then, the kids have been passing the nastiest of viruses around with each other (and with Neil and I).

Now the big day comes and we have a sitter all lines up for an anniversary dinner and movie.  We had the kids just well enough to be able to have a sitter and BAM Finn comes down with pink eye last night.  Yuck!  No date for us, but both of us REALLY did need a break from the house where we had been stuck for the last week and a half.

We moved to Plan B.  We still had dinner and a movie, but we had to be really flexible. Actually it's fitting this falls on this twelve year anniversary because these last twelve years have given us lots of chances to perfect being flexible.  Neil went to the movies in the morning, I went in the afternoon, and then I brought home PF Changs for dinner.
The only difference between the quiet romantic dinner out with a movie we could discuss after and the day we had was that we saw different movies, has someone yell "I pooped" as we sat down to eat, and by the end of the dinner all the kids were over eating off our plates and playing action figures around the table.  We looked at each other, smiled, and couldn't be happier with the twelve years we have had so far together.

I can't believe we have a kid old enough to take our picture... before he figured out how to reverse the camera and take twenty pictures of himself.

Here's to an actual date night next year!!