10 Years!!

On June 29, 2012 Matt and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. Yup! TEN YEARS!! It has been a roller coaster of a ride, school, moves, jobs, kids, good times, bad times. But it has been well worth the efforts for all the fun!

To honor the occasion I made a quilt. You have probably seen these, the are T-shirt quilts, you take all those t-shirts you get on various trips and occasions and then put aside because they are "memories" and turn them into a quilt. I had decided back in the winter I wanted to do something like this. Then I forgot. Then I remembered just before we were about to head to Texas in May, I thought I would start as soon as we got home. Well, then the Great Knee Saga of '12 started and I forgot again. On Monday morning 2 weeks before our anniversary I suddenly remembered! I started that day! It was all a secret and surprise for Matt, and that made it a bit tricky! With some babysitting help from Ray Ray and a bit of tolerance from the minis, I finished it with a day to spare! Here it is in various stages!

 And here it is complete. I think it turned out pretty cool, though a bit narrow. Oh well.

 Matt seemed to dig it. So it was worth the effort! The kids were super excited because they had a VERY hard time keeping a secret for 2 weeks, but the did!

 If I have not mentioned in the past or recently that we have the coolest friends ever let me say it now, We have THE BEST friends EVER. Aaron and Rachel kept the kids for TWO nights so Mat and I could hang out and have some couple time for our anniversary!

First we went to the temple, and then tried a new sushi restaurant. I thought this was funny, the waitress set some one's beer down on the wall next to Matt! We had just come from the temple and it looked like Matt was about to knock one back!

 He really liked his sushi by the way, I had teriayki chicken, and it was delicious too!

 Upon arriving home we found that we had been had! The Raabs and the Minis left us some decor at the house!

 Leading into the hall way.

 Leading into our bed room.

 The directions.

 The affore mentioned "lights".

 The ah..... accessories? anyway......

 Love notes on the bathroom mirror.

 And sweet cards from the Minis. Super cute!

 The next day we headed over to Lexington and had some barbeque and went swimming.

 We also took advantage of the no mini situation and went to a matinee movie And a late movie! HA it was fun!

Finally, I did a little pampering. I got my hair cut. I colored it. And did my nails. This is not a great picture, but you get the idea. It is a reddish auburn and short, with bangs.

All in all we had a great weekend and are so grateful to the Raabs for keeping the kids. They had such a great time they did not want to come home! even after 2 days!