Happy Anniversary!

As I've mentioned numerous times in this blog- sometimes our family life seems so crazy (which is Parker's newest favorite word..."Mom, that tree is crazy" or "Mom, you are so crazy!") and we get caught so caught up in keeping up with everything that we don't have time to celebrate the little and sometimes the big milestones in our life! This fall has been, undoubtedly, the busiest, most stressful time of our life (so far) and when our 6 year anniversary rolled around on October 23rd, we just didn't have time to celebrate. I had to work that weekend at Homecoming (which is fun, of course, but definately not the same as spending time with your husband for your anniversary) and it just seemed like everyday surrounding our anniversary was filled with family, work, friend, or some other obligation we'd gotten ourserlves into.

FINALLY....on Friday, November 5th (two weeks after our anniversary date), Brandon and I had a plan to go out! We were going to head to PF Changs for dinner and do a little shopping!! Yeah! Finally, a night out together....just us two! As most of you know, I am 8 months pregnant...tired most of the time...huge, uncomfortable, not able to enjoy food as much as usual, etc. So, when the time came to actually go to the plaza, walk around, eat to our hearts content, enjoy eachother's company....we decided all that we really wanted to do was enjoy the company of one another. We opted to go to Olathe and eat at Pei Wei (instead of wasting time and driving to the plaza), we decided to head home after eating and watch a movie (instead of walking around and shopping), and we ended up just watching the TV shows we needed to get caught up on.

The fun part of all of this is...I had just as much fun as if we'd done something extravagant, because I was with Brandon! And...the best part was that we knew Parker was also having fun with his cousins at the farm with Grandma and Grandpa Strahm.

When I went to pick Parker up on Saturday afternoon, I found them jumping in a huge pile of leaves, jumping on the hay bales, and tackling grandpa! They'd been outside for hours and were having the best time a little boy could have playing with eachother. We are truly blessed for cousins (as well as grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles) and how much Parker enjoys his time with them!!