Guess what today is???

Today, Jeromy and I celebrate 5 years of marriage! Yep, on this day, Oct. 20, 2007 we were happily wed! YAY!

So I took a ba-jillion pictures today to show how we spend our anniversary! Get some coffee folks!

First we celebrated by giving each other cards... mine I put together last night at work, and Jeromy gave me 2 cards- one the kids can see... and one they can't lol!

Then right after that, Jeromy and and Kent left for "Men's Breakfast" at church. It starts at 8 AM. They didn't get back till about 11 AM.

Then Aurora and I headed to the craft store to pick out the material for her doll's Christmas dress, and did you know that this girl likes owls? I did not know that! She picked out some owl material- not really Christmas-y but I told her she could pick out what ever she wanted, but the accent colors are in a pretty Christmas green color...

Then Kent and I headed to the barber shop where he was getting a hair cut and his beard trimmed for the first time... here's the before...

And after- there's my handsome boy again! It may be hard to see how long his beard had gotten but in the second picture you can see his neck, in the first one you can't! He said he's going to grow it back out :o( oh well...

 I wanted to get another cute picture of him, but he wasn't cooperating... come on Kent just smile

He waits till I'm just about to snap the picture then does something- like shove his face into the camera... what a comedian... (see Jeromy in the back?)

Laughing at something Jeromy said...

Just smile dude!

Finally a smile...

Then Jeromy, Aurora and I went out to run a couple of errands... we got our annual picture at the waterfront where Jeromy proposed... Aurora took it for us... (see my new purple coat from Costco Laura?)

We also got the Movie "It's a Wonderful Life". I barely remember the movie, and Jeromy, Kent and Aurora had never seen it. Well it was awesome. We had our anniversary steak dinner while we watched the movie... with Kent and Aurora...

Yep we pretty much spent our anniversary with our kids. And we were thankful- BECAUSE we didn't know until YESTERDAY if we would have to work today- BOTH OF US ALMOST WERE FORCED TO WORK- ON OUR ANNIVERSARY. Oh man there would have been alot of crying folks if that had happened lol.

Dad and daughter...

Mom and son...

There they are again. He sure does love that sweet girl!

Jeromy also got a haircut... he didn't really want this picture taken, but I told him the people would want to know everything that happened on our anniversary day.. right? right?

So later in the evening I had planned on doing some serious cooking. While I was doing that, Jeromy and Aurora played some games....

Then some more games...

While Kent worked on his homework....

He's taking 2 classes this quarter- and before you ask why is he only taking 2 ... this is part of an assignment for his Engineering Physics class.... hhmmmmm....

And here's some of his homework for his Calculus 4 class... oh man... really?

Ok, back to my cooking. I tried a new recipe: meatloaf... looks pretty good. My goal is to make 2-3 dinners on the weekend, so Jeromy, Kent and I all have some good home cooked food made with love in every bite during the week while we are at work/school. (Proverbs 31 wife ya know!)

I also made tilapia and quinoa- that's one of our staples now. They say you should have fish twice a week, oh man and it is sooooo good! I bake the fish in butter and huge chunks of cut up onion and some spices.

After finishing up the fish dinners, I made another new recipe that I found. I made my first beef and vegetable stew- it took 2 hours to cook... yummmmm...

Poured it over a bed of brown rice cause that's how we roll around here... my 3 are the smaller portioned containers...

And just cause I have that "A"-personality type I like to put little labels on the dinners I make. Cause once every thing's frozen it's hard to tell what it is and I like to know what I'm eating!

 Now Jeromy, Kent and I have yummy dinners for the whole next week and them some- and 3 different choices to choose from!

We had a great day. God has blessed me with such a wonderful hard working goofy loving family man!

 Happy Anniversary to you Jeromy, my best friend! I love you so much!