Ten Year Anniversary

Ten years ago, Mommy and Daddy were married - today was our ten year anniversary. And though today is the official date, we'll be celebrating it "officially" when we go to the Polynesian Resort in a few months. You see, our honeymoon was in Hawaii, and what better place nearby than the Polynesian. It's been a dream of mine to visit that resort, and this is the perfect occasion and reason to go there.

In the meantime, Mommy had a wonderful basket for Daddy - filled with items from Hawaii. It had chocolates, coffee, and a Duke Kahanamoku t-shirt, and also a Disney Hawaiian shirt too. It was a perfect reminder of the wonderful time we had ten years ago this week. Daddy is converting all the negatives he can find from that trip into digital files, so look forward to seeing some of those pop up here or there on this blog.

Until then, today started out early - Madison was so excited to go to her first gymnastics class!

Here she is doing one of her exercises on the bars. She bounces on the trampoline, does rolls and walks on balance beams - she had a great time this morning in her first class. From this point on, we'll be joining her for classes every Thursday. I can't say this enough: Madison loved it!

Afterwards, we went to PF Chang's for lunch, but not before spending some time at Goodwill. What did you do for your ten year anniversary? We went to Goodwill! The meal at PF Chang's was delicious as usual, and the three of us scarfed everything down, filling up for pretty much the rest of the day.

Later on, we went back to the library. It was one of those days that you wanted to be inside as much as possible. At times, our car temperature gauge was reading over 100 degrees! We're having a heat wave all over the East Coast, actually - but it's the middle of July: whaddya expect?

Anyway, we went to the library and Madison knew just what to do. She was so cute grabbing a few books and sitting down on the kids' furniture to read each one. She picked one to take home with us, and Daddy picked some kids' music to take home as well, along with a few books to get future ideas from.

When we got home, Mommy soaked in the tub while Madison watched another Barbie movie. This one was "The Princess and the Pauper," which featured Martin Short in a fun role. When Madison went to bed, we can safely say she had a very full day.

We ended our first ten years of marriage by sitting in bed watching "The Nanny" until we started to drift off to sleep. At the moment, Mommy is sleeping in bed peacefully, and Daddy is sitting here thinking about how blessed and grateful he is to have a wife like her.