Happy Anniversary Mimi & Papa

We hope you had an awesome date day! Happy 32nd to my awesome parents! 

7th Anniversary

While our real anniversary was spent on a bus with 54 of our closest high school friends coming back from Young Life camp (very fitting that we would be doing something that we LOVE), we celebrated with just our family today! In the past, we have tried to have some sort of backpacking adventure with each anniversary. Unfortunately, with Justin's knee injury and our lack of overnight ability, Justin chose our date of a little road trip to Fulford. Fulford is a tiny town way outside of Eagle in the same direction as Sylvan Lake State Park. It is a beautiful area and one that we had not yet explored until today. We were curious as to what was back there! What is there, you may ask? Well, not a whole lot. There are actually more houses than I expected, ranging from super nice to small shanteys. I can't imagine living so far away from town, but Justin is convinced it would be awesome. 

 

7 years = 2,555 days. That is how long we have been married! How crazy is that. It is more crazy that we have been together (starting dating freshmen year of high school) for a total of 5,206 days! How has Justin put up with me for that long??? Just kidding. 

What a ride it has been! I am married to my best friend and the hottest guy in the world. It is an honor and a blessing each day. Not to say that we haven't hit hard patches, but God is so good to us and we are truly humbled to live the lives that we have between teaching, coaching, leading YL and just being together. Here the two greatest results of our love for each other....

A silly, high-energy, climbing, jumping, sword-fighting, adventurous, handsome boy named Macklin. 

And a precious, sweet, snugly, belly laughing, big brother adoring, beautiful little girl named Macy. 

 

And there is always our crazy pup Baxter.....

he often gets forgotten so I thought I would give him a shout out! 

5th Anniversary Trip

Note: I took some great pics on our nice camera before we left, but I have yet to put them on my computer. So, more to come soon!

Last week we actually got to celebrate our 5th anniversary together. Our actual date was during our Young Life camp trip, so we waited until we got back. Since it was an odd year, it was Justin's turn to plan the trip. We wanted to try to take Macklin backpacking for the first time to see what it would be like. We headed south past Sylvan Lake out of Eagle and actually stayed in the county lines. We started at Woods Lake and hiked the 2.5 miles back to Eagle Lake to camp. It turned out the be a great trip overall. Macklin was at A+ status through the first day. He hiked well, was excited to get to the camp, was a little too excited about the water (it was hard to keep him around camp as he wanted to keep going towards the lake), played in the lake, eat some lasagna for dinner, and was getting tired. We tried to put him down while it was still light outside, but that was a huge fail. He eventually went down on his own after it got dark. Sleep was a bit restless as it was warm outside, Mack was sleeping in my space, etc. I eventually awoke after a sleepless night when Macklin literally butt-dropped my head! He was then a bit crabby through the morning, but eventually fell asleep on the hike back.

We learned that backpacking with a baby is possible!

Oh yah, can't forget this part....my anniversary gift! Justin spoiled me with a b solitare eautifuldiamond necklace! It was a family diamond from his mom that she was excited to hand down. My sweet husband wanted to wait a while to give it to me and it made the day perfect! I totally loved it and have hardly taken it off since!

The scenery was awesome!

Baxter with his pack! He actually carried like 10-15lbs for us!

I was going to delete this pic, but it just makes me laugh every time I see it and depects our attitudes at the moment I woke up.

Looks uncomfortable but he was out!

My husband is the best man out there! I am so blessed to have him in my life and can only pray for only 55+ years with him!