Four Years

Yesterday was our 4th anniversary!
Pretty amazing, especially if you knew us our first year. OK, our first 3 1/2 years.

Here we are right before we went to dinner at Due Amici...yum. A fun surprise from Nick!

Our fun wrapped gifts. Check out that cool bow thingy that Nick put on mine.

Here are the rules for our anniversary gift-givings:
1. It must be under $15.
2. It must be made of the material that goes with the year. (1st year = paper, etc.)
That way we are not breaking the bank to show our love for each other. Even though that would be nice, too. Kidding.
So...
Nick got me the most thoughtful gift: a (wooden) rubber stamp that is designed for make-your-own recipe cards. I guess he must have noticed a certain drawer in our kitchen that is crammed with random scraps of paper with measurements and ingredients written all over them...I am forever writing down recipes I find and shoving them in the nearest drawer. Love this gift.
And for him...
Whenever we put up our Christmas lights in the winter, Nick usually comments about how he wishes we could keep them up all year. So I found these sweet little wooden hand-carved lights at World Market that we can, in fact, keep lit year-round.

And they look good with that window decoration, so hey.

Next we decided to (finally) decorate the tree that has been standing there naked for a week or so.
No tree-decorating ceremony would be complete without Sleepless in Seattle--at least none that I would attend. I love that movie. "Harses, harses, harses..."

Here is Greg enjoying the ornamenting and the heat-venting.


And the tree is all finished! And doesn't Greg look a bit like a wolverine in the background?

Ahhhh...a great end to a great night.


I love you, Nicholas.