Originally, we had hoped to go all out for our 5th anniversary. A romantic getaway weekend, a nice stay downtown, and a fancy dinner were all ideas...ideas eventually tossed to the wind. Here is how it all went down instead.
The week before, I began looking for creative wood gifts for the traditional 5th anniversary present. I found some really cheesy ideas and was not very excited about them. Then I found this wooden, engraved, personal frame, and thought it would be very nice. So, I ordered it! (Of course, it had our names, and our anniversary date on it, but you get the drift.)
Well, last Thursday afternoon there is a ring at our doorbell, and since I was in my office working, Jesse answered the door. I thought nothing of it. Until he brought the package, addressed to me, into the office. Considering I had not thought of anything else for an anniversary gift, he couldn't see this one early!! I practically dived at him, ripping the box from his hands, and running past his questioning face to go hide the box.Friday afternoon, we were talking, and brought up our financial situation. Without going into detail, let me just say that the rising cost of living and the lack of raises for either of us, is really starting to hit us in the pocketbook. We have gone through slumps before, but never for the duration or consistency that we have been fighting our budget this time!
ANYWAY, so back to Friday afternoon. After discussing our finances, we brought up our anniversary. Obviously, we had put off planning a getaway weekend because we had no money to do it. We put off staying somewhere nice, again, no money. But, Jesse had already gone ahead and made reservations at our favorite nice restaurant, Perry's. After further discussion, I convinced him to call and cancel our reservations- again, no money.
I asked him point blank if he had gotten me anything for our anniversary, since he is notorious for procrastinating. Seriously- worst gift procrastinator in the world. He admitted that he had not. I told him to save the money on our typical gifts (card, flowers, etc). He said, "but you already got me something! Now I will feel bad!" To which I admitted that the gift was really more for both of us than just him. Jesse would not let up! I finally marched into the other room, grabbed the box, and handed it to him. (Yes, to those following the storyline, I gave him the only traditional gift we had for each other, a day early. How is that for "traditional?") Luckily, he really liked the frame and actually was very sweetly-appreciative of my sentimental efforts.
So, what did we do to celebrate, you ask?
We enjoyed each other.
We spent the day hanging out, playing with Ryleigh, and being sweet with one another. Late in the afternoon, we dropped Ryleigh off at my parent's house and had a nice night to ourselves. We did some shopping (with coupons! haha) at a few of our favorite places: Old Navy for me, and Sports/Shoe stores for him. He picked out a few new razorback tank tops for me, because he loves when I wear razorback tanks, which I think is strange, considering I think I only own two and rarely wear them in public, due to my self-consciousness about arm chub...Jesse likes them and he was very encouraging about my body, trying to help ease my self-consciousness.
On a side note: I just love when he is sweet and complimentary to me. It is not that he is ever mean or derogatory to me. But Jesse is a quiet man, and he often keeps the compliments quiet along with his other thoughts. When he is openly and passionately complimentary, it stirs my heart and still gives me butterflies in my stomach. I love this man!
After our shopping/hanging out, we went to Pappasitos for dinner. It was a Saturday night so we had to wait for almost an hour before we sat at a table. But without Ryleigh, the wait was not so bad. We sat at the bar, talking, sharing a drink, and watching the Astros. For dinner we split fajitas. I had forgotten how good their fajitas are, but man oh man, they were good!
We picked up Ryleigh, headed home, and put her to bed for the night. Then we had more hang out time...and fun with the camera!
I love my husband very much. I can rag on him from time to time, but the truth is, Jesse is a great man. He is my biggest supporter and Ryleigh's biggest fan! We are blessed to have him in our lives.
I'm thankful for the past five years; and even if we were not able to "do it up big" this year, that just leaves much to be desired as we celebrate again in the future.
Happy anniversary, babe! I love you, and look forward to the next five!
3 comments:
AAWWWWW!!! How sweet. Sounds like yall had a wonderful anniversary! I know that yall will have many, many, many more to celebrate!
Shelley
congratulations on 5 years! isn't it insane how time flies? good job you two ;)
Love it! Way to figure out how to enjoy each other no matter what the circumstance! Sometimes I feel really lame that our anniversaries haven't been bigger "all-out" celebrations, but the truth is that we have always enjoyed ourselves and each other. I think you were wise to consider what you could financially do and then to pursue that with all the fun and passion you could!
Congratulations on 5 years! Here's to many, many more!
Love you two!
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