Well, today marks 4.5 years of marriage for us. Unbelievable! We have changed and grown so much, it's hard to remember what it was like at the beginning! I stumbled upon this recently:
I remember that when I wrote our anniversary post, I could hardly remember what we did. Don't how I could forget. Michael took me out for dinner, we dressed up and went to the symphony. He planned every detail. It was great! Unfortunately I was a little sleep deprived, so I had to really focus to stay awake, but it was still a fabulous evening.
For our 1/2 anniversary Michael was really on the ball too (much more than I). Every month on the 13th we have what we call "sacred date night" to mark our anniversary and make sure that we are taking time out to have fun. I had completely over looked that it was the 13th. Michael hinted at a suprise the night before, which I just brushed off as nice but weird. At work on the 13th I got an ecard, another hops & yoyo one, some of our favorites. It was called you smell good, totally loved it! It told me he was taking me out to dinner. Sweet, I'm off the hook for cooking! Yay! We had a nice dinner and a chance to talk & catch up, since life had been a little crazy! Thanks Michael for remembering the 13th, and even figuring out that it was the half a year mark!
Is anyone willing to admit to writing stuff on their to do list that is already complete, just to have the satisfaction of crossing it off?
I got to mark another thing off my list of things to see and do while I live in Manitoba. There is a place where thousands of garter snakes congregate every spring and fall. In fall they meet to go deep underground to hibernate for winter, in spring they come up to mate and enjoy the summer. They have had to create fences and underpasses for the snakes because otherwise when they migrate they cover the highway. It's really cool to see and weird to be able to hear so many snakes moving around!
Baby Caleb arrived! We went to meet him at the hospital. He is our friends, Duane & Wendy's little boy. Isn't the picture of Michael holding him too sweet?
Michael and I went to our very first poker derby with Kerry (my coworker's husband). We had a great time, it was very muddy. We did manage to keep up with the big quads and didn't get too stuck. When we did get stuck, Michael could just pull our quads out, when the big ones gut stuck, it took winches and several guys to get them unstuck. Michael took care of planning everything and packing. He wasn't quite prepared for the mud, so he drove home in his gitch and I was wrapped in a blanket, so we didn't get the car all full of mud!
All done!
By this point we were already suffereing because the blanket was way too much, but it's also extremely soft, our summer blanket is not as cozy, so neither of us were ready to give it up... 
We also had a gather at Michael's parents...
