9 years together.

We celebrated our 9th anniversary almost 3 months ago on January 8th.

 We had been sick, sick, sick.  Pretty much how our entire winter has been, starting back at Halloween.  We didn't know all week if we'd make it out or not.  But my mom was coming to watch the kids and we sure didn't want to waste this chance to get away.

Our local Premier group had a black dress event scheduled for the same weekend, so we decided it would make a good excuse to get dressed up and have a fun night out together.  

I had all intentions to go shopping for both of us the week before. Fancy events don't come too often in our glamorous life, so neither of us had anything to wear.  Getting fancy in the middle of winter is kind of hard for gals...don't ya think?  What to wear on your legs and the right shoes and a dress that covers enough to look winterish. 

 And then we got sick. There was no energy to go shopping and we found ourselves still not having anything to wear the day before.  And we still didn't even know if we felt well enough to go.  But the one thing we did know was that we were leaving our house, and getting a hotel room regardless.  Even if we laid in bed sick all day, my mom was coming and we were going to be OUT OF THERE!  

We ended up deciding to go and it all came together in the end.  A quick stop at JCP to get a dress shirt for Dave, tights and shoes for me.  I don't wear heels...EVER!  But I bought heels.  It's kind of impossible to dress up fancy in a black dress without them.  Dave started out borrowing his dad's suit...one that he thought looked black.  I'm glad I spotted it before we left, because it was definitely navy blue, not black.  So luckily he found a black suit in the back of the closet he forgot he had.

 

We almost didn't make it to the event.  We checked into our hotel, both not really full of energy.  Dave was zoned into the Chiefs game and waited till the last minute to get ready. Normally, for guys, this is okay.  But he realized very late that the shirt he bought had been folded up in a box, and probably needed to be ironed.  PROBABLY.  Ha!  We do not iron anything in our house.  But there was no getting around this, and it took forever.  Then he put it on and although he had just gotten measured for it a few hours before, it didn't even come close to fitting.  He couldn't move his arms, couldn't button the top buttons.  He was pretty much a hot mess.  He put his pants on and they wouldn't button either.  He obviously grew since the last time he wore them.  So his pants were rigged closed, he was miserable in his shirt, we had to watch YouTube to know how to tie a tie, and then when it was time to go, he informed me that the red coat I had laid out with all of our bags, he thought was my moms and he set it aside.  So it was 20 degrees outside and I had a short sleeve dress on and no coat.  We finally made it to the event over an hour late.

Afterwards, the blizzard had begun.  I love snow.  It was so fun being out together and trying to find a place to eat dinner at 10pm, walking in heels through snow filled parking lots and sliding all over the road to get where we were going. We ended up at Outback for steak, lobster and cheese fries.  Latest dinner ever and one of the best!

I loved the beautiful snowy view from our room. 

But the best part, besides the awesome hotel room from Priceline for $55 was rolling over in bed the next morning and reaching for a phone and seeing we had both slept in till 10:15 am.

Happy Anniversary to us.

One of these years we WILL be somewhere warm for our anniversary!  God willing, we will.

We'd love to go back to Cabo, where we spent our honeymoon.  And we always said we'd do it for our 10th year.  But now that's already next year.  Geez, life flys by.

So we shall see.

But give me a hotel room, a night away, no parent responsibilities, and my handsome hubby...even if it's 30 miles down the road, I'm a happy happy gal.  Cabo or not.