Anniversary Trip

Here's another post that's just been lingering out there for me to finish...

As I mentioned earlier, Allen & I celebrated 5 years of marriage in May. When we were discussing what we were going to do to celebrate, I had visions of fancy hotels, nice dinners, massages. Allen, not so much. He informed me he wanted to go to the middle of nowhere. He wanted no internet, no TV, no cell phone service. Really, Allen? But I have to admit that it did sound appealing to me (kind of). So, Allen found a cabin in the middle of nowhere north Alabama, we dropped Tripperoo off at the grandparents, & drove north. On the way, we ate here & visited this (totally felt like I was on a school field trip). We hiked in Little River Canyon, & Desoto National Park, & even got to have dinner with our friends, the Belews. We had a great time!

Allen loved taking this picture

5 Years of Wedded Bliss

How did we go from this...

to this?!?!?!

I think this is what 5 years of marriage will do to a couple! That's right, folks, Allen and I just celebrated 5 years of marriage. Some days it feels like it hasn't been that long ago when we walked down the aisle and then others, well, let's just say it seems longer than 5 years...

Our "story" however actually began almost 7 years ago when on one fateful night, Allen and I were "paired" together for a semi-blind date. Long story, but here we go-a big group of our single college friends decided to go on "dates" for Valentine's Day. There were 4 and we all drew names to see who would be matched up with who(m? - I always get those confused) for each date. My dates were as follows:

Ride to Montgomery - Matt Baker (and Lindsay was in the car with me. Her date was Jonathan Forsythe.)

Dinner in Montgomery - Randy Whitehead

Shakespeare Play - ALLEN VINSON

Ride back to Auburn - Scott Moore (& thank goodness for this. Scott & I were good friends by this point and I could tell him all about my Shakespeare date)

Something totally clicked that night & if you ask either one of us, we'll tell you we just knew. And 5 years of marriage, 1 baby, 1 mortgage, & 1 income later, we still know!

A few pictures from when we were dating...

This was actually at the Shakespeare Festival (haircut - awful)

Our first ADPi formal

Halloween - this totally makes me laugh every time I look at it!

This is the ski trip where I told Allen I could never marry him. He proposed 2 weeks later & I guess we all know what happened next....

I would love to post more pictures from this day & hope to soon, but for now "this" is telling me he wants breakfast...

Going back in time...A-Day weekend

A couple of weeks ago (actually about a month or two ago - I forgot I never finished this post), I got an awful stomach virus that resulted in a trip to the ER. Thankfully, Meme & Dad came down to rescue Tripp. He ended up having a great time in Greenville where he got to see baby calves, played with chickens, & learned to crow like Rufus the Rooster. I eventually went to Greenville, and then Allen came up as well after the work week was over. We ended the week at A-Day, then a fun dinner with MawMaw Stacie in Montgomery, and a side trip to Dothan to visit cousin Presley.

Beach Bum continued...

He loves playing in the sand.

Dinner afterwards at the Oar House...he was showing me his "bad eyes".

My Beach Bum Bugaboo

Tripp & I have made several trips to the beach this week.

The first was with Da-Da to Aunt Kim's & Uncle Allen's...

The second was with our dear friends, the Barbour's...

He had so much fun that he fell asleep in record time...seriously, he was laughing at something I said/did one minute, and the next minute, he was O.U.T! (Don't you love how I let him ride home with only a diaper on?)

The third trip was today & pictures will follow shortly. Apparently I have a limit on how many I can post. Anyway, we wanted to see our pretty white beaches before the oil spill came on shore :-(