8 is Great

Last week, Aaron and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. We spent the day at the Denver Zoo with the kids and my sister. It was so much fun, and we shared memories with the kids of our trip to the San Diego Zoo on our honeymoon 8 years ago, where we took a picture in front of the flamingos similar to this one. My printer/scanner isn't hooked up to the laptop right now, but when I get to that I'll post the original picture. Just imagine much younger, skinnier, versions of us-Aaron with more hair and me with less and you get the idea.

A few nights later, we left the girls with my parents and sister, and went to the Colorado Rockies Game for a date. We took Corbin with us, and he enjoyed his first major sporting event. Many more to come, little buddy...
We were behind first base, so the sun was right in our eyes for innings 1-7, We also got thrown up on by a mystery vomiter from above, the accused of being the mystery vomiter by the couple in front of us who thought that nasty beer and peanut puke could have come from our baby. The game was exciting enough that we really didn't care. We had fun people watching, laughing, being grateful that the puke wasn't in our hair, and spending some time alone together. Corbin was like this for most of the game:
We sort of wished we had brought the girls with us. We always feel a little guilty when we have fun on a date that the whole family would have enjoyed. Like when we visited the St Louis Zoo on a weekend getaway 2 years ago...we loved being able to walk hand in hand around the Zoo, in the crisp fall air without hearing complaints of "I'm FREEZING, I'm TIRED" from the kids...but we also kinda felt like we were cheating on our kids the whole time. It was like that at the Rockies Game. We kept saying things like, "Quincy would have loved those" or "that would have scared the crap out of Reese!".
We realized, like we do on most of our big dates, that more than any fun and exciting thing we might do, we'd really just rather spend some quality time with all of us together. The past 8 years have gone by in a blur, highlighted only buy the memories we've chosen to create . I am so grateful to be married to such a wonderful man. He is so good to me and to our children.

Happy Anniversary, Aaron!

We didn't buy each other gifts this year, like we have done for some of our previous anniversaries. This was mostly because we were out of town, preoccupied with a new little one, and spending money on other things...but really, what present could top the gift of these little guys?