Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Cyrus and I had our anniversary last week on Wednesday! We have been married for nine years. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Bunco was on Wednesday night but since it is our policy that weeknights make for unenjoyable celebrations, I just went to BUNCO and he rested from a long day at school, oh yes, and he gave me my favorite present...a fully cleaned and vaccuumed home. He really is the best.

On Friday I made a great salad and some scones and strawberry shortcake and we enjoyed a wonderful celebration. Low-key and perfectly quiet and romantic, just the way we like em...Sam joined us because he wasn't feeling the best but that was ok, he went down for the night and we just stayed home and ate and talked.

We spent the first few years of our marriage doing what people traditionally do on anniversaries--trying to go away and trying to have the most romantic night by making everthing perfect--blah blah blah. Then on anniversary #5, Cyrus' dad was flying in on the big night, and we were so busy getting ready for Katie to come, that we just had a barbeque in the back yard together and Cyrus wrote me a poem and made a list of-the top 100 things from each of the first five years of our marriage. We read them and laughed and just felt absolute joy at being with each other. It was our best anniversary ever and it was SOOOOO low stress. It just reminded us of why we love each other so much and why our marriage is so great. And so it has been ever since. We don't try to be elaborate, we don't try to do what everyone else does, we just enjoy each other and laugh and remember, once again, why we love being married to each other.