Life Lesson: Celebrate Your Wedding Anniversary

Brian and I have been married 6 years, and never paid our anniversary much attention. The most we did was a card and meal out. This year he surprised me with a weekend getaway to Gatlinburg, TN. This weekend I figured out how much we had been neglecting to celebrate our marriage. When kids enter the picture it is hard enough to feel "like a couple", and the habits we set up before kids didn't help. No more. Every year some way, some how we are going to celebrate. Marriage is something to celebrate, especially when divorce is found to be the answer for so many people.

Anyway we had a great time, no better than great, it was perfect.

The cabin. Brian did good!

You can see by my face I am shocked and thrilled! This was when I first walked in.

This was off of our back deck.

And so was this. Chilly nights + waterfalls + hot tub = RELAXATION

The first night out we went to a themed restaurant Dicks Last Resort. It is where your server and the staff treat you rude on purpose, and the commentary is a little on the dirty side. We had a blast, and even though I waiter was rude, he was the most likable, and the best server we had the whole trip. Including The Melting Pot.

Brian eating gator.

Brian eating crawdads. I don't know what got into him. He had never had either.



I had to get a Dick's t-shirt, and actually had to put it on because I got stuff all over the shirt I was wearing. It had a martini glass on the back.



On our actual anniversary we went on a hike in the mountains.

Then we went and steamed up the windows in Brian's car.....because we got caught in a severe thunderstorm that included hail, and were like drowned rats in the car, waiting for the storm to pass.

That night we went to The Melting Pot, and I was thrilled because I do love eating there. No pictures of us, but I sure did get the pictures of the food!

Blackberry Sage Lemonade. Ummmm

Ummm, we forgot to take a picture before we destroyed it.



Yep it was better than good.

  Celebrate marriage. I got it. Check.

Divorce is not the only way a marriage can end. You can starve it, and just be two people who live together in a house. You never know what tomorrow will bring, the person you chose for life, my no longer live.

Brian I celebrate you and me. I love you.