Our Anniversary

This year our anniversary was on a Sunday and the weather was MUCH more cooperative.

Not a cloud in the sky! Ok, maybe a little teeny one way out in the distance, but it was a VERY nice day!

We decided to go on an insanely long walk (2.5 hours and 6ish miles) with Finn and just enjoyed what a beautiful day it was. The only thing we didn't enjoy were the sunburns that we received since we didn't even think about sunscreen (I still look like Rudolph!)

Monday, Michael decided to take the whole day off instead of just the afternoon like we had originally planned (I had already arranged to take the day off). We slept in a little, spent the morning with Finn, and then Michael took me out to lunch, to a little bakery that he used to go to every day when he worked across the street. We took our lunch to the park and enjoyed the nice weather. Since we had originally planned to go to Boondocks that afternoon (we had tickets that were good from 4-10), we kept heading that direction.

We had a little bit of time to kill, so we stopped at Ikea and walked around there. Neither of us had been there before, and it was fun to go and see what they offered. We found a TV stand that we liked (since our TV is currently sitting on my dresser), but we still want to look around and see if there are any others we like, so we didn't get it. We also found some kitchen accessories and outdoor accessories that we would like to buy at some point.

After walking so much the day before and then walking around Ikea (which, for those of you that have never been there, is pretty much a GINORMOUS two-story warehouse), we decided we didn't really want to walk around Boondocks for another couple hours, so we opted to save our tickets for another day. Instead, we went to Beyond Glaze and ate some delicious donuts (I had a Cherry Limeade Donut and Michael had a Raspberry Torte donut), and then headed home to spend some more time with Finn.

We stayed home with Finn for about an hour, and then headed to dinner at one of our very most favorite restaurants (Thanks to Brad and Heather for the gift card!). We had a very delicious meal, and then ran a quick errand to Home Depot before going back home and ending the night by watching Castle and playing Lego Harry Potter on the Xbox.

We were a little late on cutting our cake because we didn't pull it out of the freezer until Sunday afternoon and had a very busy day on Monday (it didn't help that we were extremely full from an amazing dinner). We ended up cutting it Tuesday evening. 

It was SUPER moist and tasted delicious! We had some fun this year (sorry, no pictures), and smashed it. Michael's beard caught most of the mess on his face, but I got the raspberry layer in addition to the fondant, so there was a little more clean-up involved for me. Luckily we have a dog that caught anything I missed (Don't worry. She didn't get any of the chocolate)! :)

We are so happy that we have each other to spend time with and we enjoy marriage so much!