Celebrating Good times!

Jeff and I count the years off on our fingers.


Well today, (Wednesday) is our 15 year anniversary! I can hardly believe it, time has flown. It has been great and I can honestly say it has gotten better as time has gone on. We were talking the other day and we decided that a huge part in making our marriage so "successful" has been humor. We stopped taking ourselves so seriously and learned to just laugh at each other and even the stresses of life. Sometimes we just lay in bed and laugh at each other and the dumb things we have done or said or did recently. Jeff is a WONDERFUL husband and I do not regret marrying him for one second! I would marry him all over again! He bought us a flat screen t.v. to put up in our bedroom because for years now I have had a big nasty clunker of a t.v. sitting up on my dresser. When I came home from volleyball camp he had it up and installed! It's awesome!

How did we spend our anniversary you ask: Jeff worked while I played. Jenna and I had volleyball camp all morning. After that we met my sister and parents at the mall. We got there around 12:30 when we left the mall my sister and I looked at our watches and it was 7:15. We couldn't believe it. We only went in like 5 stores but we must have spent a lot of time in those stores. My dad took the youngest 3 to the children's museum at the mall for about 3.5 hours so we got to really get some shopping done. The major portion of the shopping was school supply shopping. There is a picture below of all the school supplies we bought for 5 kids, we calc. that we spent over $200 on glue and paper and markers! Jeff met us for dinner and for our anniversary we had a dinner with 9 other people at Bennigans. It was a fun time. We then all went back to our house for yet another "Cubs Party". The first Cubs party we had pizza, the second 2 huge batches of popcorn, last night was lame and for our anniversary/cubs party I bought Nutter Butter cookies to munch on. During the game (the Cubs were losing) Jeff drug out our wedding video tape and made us allowed us to watch almost the whole thing. Oh boy did we laugh at how people used to look, the style of glasses and hair was the main amusement! (So Rose, Laura, Kim, Lia, if any of you are reading this, yes...we laughed at all of you, my beautiful bridesmaids!)

Haley said a VERY special thing to me. She came up to me while she was watching it and said, "Mom, you were so pretty you make my heart dance!!!" Isn' t that the sweetest thing you have ever heard? It was a really fun, but tiring, 15 year anniversary. Jeff and I got a babysitter for Sat. night so we can go out for a nice quiet dinner by ourselves.

All of us at Bennigans.
Pictures of all the kids and their school supplies.
A tired "bride". Haley and Mikki were playing "wedding" during the video. Here Haley fell asleep on my lap. It was a late night!!!