Happy Anniversary!

We celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary on December 29th. Well, that's a lie - we had to celebrate a couple of days early. Because my mom couldn't come the Sunday before Christmas, she came on Saturday the 29th. We were very glad to see her (another post). I got sick actually before Christmas and ended up going to the walk-in clinic the day after Christmas. That was an adventure (again subject for another post). I got some antibiotics and started feeling better by the time we went for our anniversary trip. I do need to apologize because I was supposed to be in charge in planning our anniversary trip, but I seemed to not remember that. We had decided on going to Portland. So, we ended up trying to make some last minute plans sort of. We found a really neat hotel on the internet - McMenamins - we stayed at Kennedy School. It's an old school that was turned in to a hotel - it has a couple of bars, a restaurant, movie theatre. It's a really cool place.

The rooms have the original chalkboards in them. It's really neat - I suggest reading more on their website.

We went to have breakfast at a place called the Byways Cafe. It was on the Food Network on the Diners, Drive-ins & Dives.

It had fabulous breakfast! It was really, really good. A cool diner in a big city - so not our norm, but it was really fun! We actually like to venture out to places like this, there's just not been a lot of options like that in the places we live, so it is out of the norm for us.

We hit a couple of stores in Portland just doing some shopping. We also had found a place called Tour de Crepes. It had the most tasty, yummy, large, fantastic crepes. It was a cool little funky place too.

That's the kitchen - an airstream trailer. It's pretty cool. The place is empty, the cook stays out back in the trailer and comes out when someone comes in - takes your order then goes back to the trailer. It's different. She's the only one there. There's another web site that raves about the place for the kid friendly environment and sandbox outside for the parent and kid playdates they have. It's really too bad we don't live closer to that place, although we'd probably gain tons of lbs because we'd eat too much. They have all sorts of crepes, not just dessert ones.

So, all in all we had a great trip. We got to go to a couple of fun places to stay and eat. It's nice to get away from real life and just spend time together. So, we have been married for seven years. I would like to also mention we did date for two years prior to getting married - which is quite a long time by LDS standards. Anyway, in celebration of 7 years, here's the top 7 reasons why I love my husband (in random order):

1) - He always makes sure I am happy. He lets me win many an argument.

2) - He makes me laugh.

3) - He is a kid at heart and loves to play.

4) - He is a good father to our two boys.

5) - He supports my hobby and makes me buy the latest and greatest scrapbooking tools and gadgets.

6) - He has a stong testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ.

7) - He is adventurous and we have had many fun adventures over the last 7+ years.

I am very grateful and lucky to be who I am and where I am.