3 Years of Marriage and 3 Children Later...

Yes you read the title correctly we have been married for 3 years and have 3 children! LOL Crazy right? Well actually we did try holding off on having kids, but sometimes the Lord just has other plans for you. Honestly though I just don't think that our lives would feel very complete without them right now. Matt and I have talked a lot about it and are actually very glad that we have had children at our "young ages" for a couple of reasons: One, we have the strength and energy to keep up with them, and two, when they get older we won't be that old and we'll still have a lot of life left in us. I mean come on I don't want to be in my 50s or 60s when my children graduate high school! LOL So, I guess it all works out in the end. So anyway Wednesday May 28th was our anniversary but we decided to celebrate this past Saturday. We headed into town and decided to eat at Longhorn. YUMMY! The food was great! We started our meal out with an appetizer, the Texas Tonion. But for some reason we had a tough time deciding on what we wanted to eat. I wanted ribs or maybe chicken tenders and Matt wanted either a cheeseburger, steak, or chicken tenders. After telling our waitress to give us "just another minute" oh, about 3 times! (I know we are pathetic) We finally decided. Matt saw this meal called the Renegade which was a half rack of ribs, steak, and two sides (steak fries and coleslaw). So he told me to order the chicken tenders and we would share, hmm, not a bad idea so I got the chicken tenders with two sides (cinnamon apples and a sweet potato). Oh WOW it was soooo good. Man, we were so full by the time it was over. (Here we are pleasantly plump!) Then we headed to the mall to find each other a gift. Our first year of marriage we thought that it would be fun to follow a traditional wedding anniversary gifts list. The gifts are chosen from a list of materials that are designated for each year. The first wedding anniversary is symbolized with paper, and from there traditional anniversary gifts become more precious or scarce to reflect the growing number of years a couple has remained together. Here is the list:

First: Paper
Second: Cotton
Third: Leather
Fourth: Fruit or Flowers
Fifth: Wood
Sixth: Candy or Iron
Seventh: Wool or Copper
Eight Bronze or Pottery
Ninth: Pottery
Tenth: Tin
Eleventh: Steel
Twelfth: Silk or Linen
Thirteenth: Lace
Fourteenth: Ivory
Fifteenth: Crystal
Twentieth: China
Twenty-Fifth: Silver

Thirtieth: Pearls
Thirty-Fifth: Coral
Fortieth: Ruby
Forty-Fifth: Sapphire
Fiftieth: Gold
Fifty-Fifth: Emerald
Sixtieth: Diamond

It has been fun the past three years thinking of gifts. For our first year I bought Matt movie tickets and he bought me a scrapbook and paper to document our anniversaries. And for our second year we bought a new comforter/sheets for our bed. This year it was leather. I immediately got excited! Hello! new shoes or a purse, aside from jewelry those are my two very extreme weaknesses. And not too long ago Matt mentioned that he wanted a smaller wallet. So there we go. We set off on our missions to find our gifts. After many long minutes trying to decide what purse I wanted I finally settled on a turquoise one. I don't have that color and thought it was fun. I made Matt take the pic so he was being well...he was being Matt. (Goofball!)

We have had to be creative and really put a lot of thought into our gifts. Which to me makes it even more special. After our gifts we decided to head back to the early years of dating and do a little miniature golfing. We used to go all the time before we were married. There is a place in the mall and it is glow in the dark! We thought that would be fun and something a little different. The first couple of holes I was beating Matt. (Yes my dad would have been very proud. He taught me well. LOL) Matt being the competitive person that he is started to try and distract me by standing behind me or tapping me with his golf club when I was about to swing. So I started to lose my game. (punk) So unfortunately he won, but I am not so sure that he really did, he was in charge of the score card. So he probably cheated. I guess we'll never know! LOL Seriously though we had a really great time. It was fun to get out and enjoy ourselves.