9 years and counting

For our Anniversary this year the kids set up a romantic restaurant for us in the family room. Kyle picked enchiladas for dinner so I made that and they served us our dinner at "the restaurant". Before dinner they sent us out for some appetizers with Adison while they set up the final touches. Then when we got home (i mean back to "the restaurant") we waited in the lobby (play room) before the hostess (Avery & Adison) could seat us.

Here is what we walked into.

Lots of fresh picked flowers and petals covered our table.

The table was so cute!

Our waitress let us know about the drinks that were available.

(Kenyon wanted to dress up too)

And her assistant came to help her.

Dinner entertainment was our wedding video that we all had a blast watching. We totally forgot about all the goofballs in our wedding (Jill & Cindi, Adia thought you both were drunk at the reception) and how AMAZING Kyle's sister Leah sounded when she sang at the ceremony.
And Kyle's gifts to me were all over the fireplace adding decor to the room.

This pretty little waitress was super cute and really wanted to join us at our table.

It was a wonderful evening to celebrate 9 wonderful years married to my best friend!

Next year though, for our big 10, I expect a real romantic restaurant in another country (or at least a different state or city)!

We did it!

Well, in our almost 8 years of marriage Kyle and I have managed to get away without kids now three times - once for the honeymoon, once for one night when Avery was about 18 months and once a couple weekends ago. I thought I would post the proof since I know that no one believes I really did it. We left our camera home so my sister could capture what she did with the kids (who all did really well - even better than I did) but when we decided to go to Universal Studios we had to buy a disposable so we could show the kids all the cool stuff we saw.

Here we are on the hotel balcony in Newport Beach

This is some dog from Beverly Hills Chihuahua and The Dog Hotel movie - I knew the kids would think this was cool.
Here is when I volunteered Kyle to be in a demonstration of how they make sound effects... he wasn't too happy with me - but I had so much fun watching him.

And here is our favorite picture of us with Kyle's hero!

I'm so lucky that I'm married to my best friend and even without tons of time for just us we are still in love and still very happy to be married to each other. Thanks Kyle for forcing me to go away with just you... I had fun and look forward to our next getaway! I promise next time I won't cry for the first day and a half (but you kind of asked for it by taking me to a total kid place this time).