Five years ago, we spent most of the day apart and one epic, fairytale evening together. This year was similar, starting out like most days do lately. I got going on things with Bryleigh (Um...she requires to be fed and changed and screams for attention, crazy right?!) and Brad started his (day off, might I add) with a 2 hour conference call and his 98th visit (yes, I've counted!) from Home Health.
We are going to laugh about it someday, and you know...we'll always be able to remember our 5th anniversary. When we are celebrating our 50th anniversary skiing down some mountain or scuba diving in some ocean, we'll laugh at the fact that Home Health was a part of our 5th anniversary and
But after all of that, it was time together and more "epic" memories! We would dream on previous anniversaries about our future while we sat and ate nice dinners. We would talk about what our family would look like and the different things we'd do, praying that we'd have a baby of our own to join us some day, so it was no question for us to have Bryleigh along for the day!
Brad isn't so great at waiting on surprises, so he's been giving me a gift each day leading up to our anniversary. It started with "Four" (an addition to the Divergent Trilogy) on Wednesday, then "The Fault in our Stars" on Thursday, and the Divergent movie this morning along with a beautifully written card and a personal note from him! I was going to wait until lunch at least to give him his card, but since he couldn't wait...I didn't either! ;) I surprised him with movie tickets to "Into the Storm" for Saturday morning (complete with a babysitter for Bryliegh...she's excited to go play with DeDe, Poppa B, and Aunt Erin!!). My little storm-chasin'-wanna-be has been so looking forward to this movie, but was thinking he was going to have to wait and Redbox it! I'd say I got him good!!
Once we finished everything up, we loaded up the car and headed to Grapevine for the afternoon! We had heard great things about Winewood Grill, and it definitely lived up to its expectations! Pork chops for mom and Snapper for daddy.
We followed up lunch with a trip to the Sea Life Aquarium, and we all three loved it! It was Bryleigh's first outing to something like that, and her eyes were wide and bright the whole time. She was just smiling as she took it all in! We saw sting rays, sharks, seahorses, starfishes, huge turtles, and even Nemo and his friends!! We finished up our day at the aquarium with a trip to the gift shop where daddy got his girl a turtle!! (They're already B-F-F's.)
Since Year 5 is the "Wooden" Anniversary, we decided to make a family sign. On our way back home, we stopped off at Michaels (or Heaven on Earth #2 if you will...Hobby Lobby is obviously Heaven on Earth #1) to gather the materials we needed. So we spent the afternoon relaxing with some HGTV and making our very own "Hammons, Est 2009" sign. (This nice little project required a little bit longer time to dry than expected, so it ended up being a 2-day project!) I loved the idea of making something to commemorate our anniversary and planning on doing that again!
Saturday was another fun day, starting with breakfast at IHOP and then on to DeDe and Poppa B's to drop off our sweet girl for the morning. We hung out for a bit with them before heading off to see the movie. Brad absolutely loves storm and would give just about anything to be a storm chaser, so it was fun to watch it with him. It's DEFINITELY a great movie, and one we'll be watching again!
We finished up our anniversary with a wonderful Sunday worshipping with our church family, lunch with our good friends the Atteberry's, and then a relaxing afternoon/evening at home. The weekend could not have been more perfect, and I'm so thankful to do live with such a caring, fun husband! LOVE YOU BRADLEY KYLE!
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