In celebration of mine and Brian's 9th wedding anniversary I decided to start our family blog. I wanted to be able to journal our lives independently and together as a family. All our milestones... little and big! So I begin today.
Brian and I met 13 years ago this weekend at a local event called Harborfest in Oswego,NY (on Lake Ontario). It was the summer of 1995, the summer of Hootie and the Blowfish, working at the Waterfront restaurant, and jet skiing everyday. I loving recall those memories as being the most fun and carefree of my life. Who knew that on the same weekend 4 years later, we would marry? Even though we didn't have children right away I consider our wedding date the birth of our family. This is the day our journey together officially started.
Some people would be aghast to know that we spent this year's anniversary with our kids, that we didn't carve a little bit of time just for ourselves. The truth is that if we had people knocking down our front door to take our kids, we probably would have gone away alone. But we don't. And I'll share another fact, we really ENJOY traveling with them. I think the way we look at it is that we had eight years of adventures and togetherness with out kids. So sometimes it's logistics and easier to take them with us, and other times it's just purely because we covet time with them. Someday they may be too involved with school, activities, friends, or jobs and family time will be more difficult to accommodate.
I guess this is my round about way of saying that we took a "day-cation" to celebrate #9. We drove to Ithaca, well Trumansburg to be exact, and hiked to Taughannock Falls. I did this a few times as a kid with my family and always loved it. It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm. The kids and Brian in their bathing suits and I with the camera (Shocking I know!) Well actually I was a nervous wreck that I would slip on a slippery rock and the $****.**'s worth of camera gear around my neck would be ruined. But who know whether it was the stupidity or the dare-devilishness that took over... I carried it the entire way and wound up with some great images of the day. After the falls we drove to a winery, Wagner Vineyards, to sample wine, beer, and root beer. In our typical fashion we drove to the winery using our map and only country and seasonal roads. It's so much more fun that way!!! The kids loved it! On the seasonal roads Sam thought we were truly 4-wheeling and he mentioned several times, "look at all the dust we are kicking up!" Beth got a kick out of the tree branches that were hitting the car and the leaves falling into her lap. Dust and leaves... simple pleasures indeed!
We drove home only to meet up with Dad and Ellen for dinner at a restaurant. The kids went straight to bed for the night and Brian and I got our quiet time together. We threw in the latest Netflix delivery and cuddled on the couch. We watched "The Bucket List". Decent movie, not the greatest of all time or even worthy of my top 10 list, but worthy of a watch. It reminded us of our "life lists" we wrote a couple of years ago... but that's for another day, another post!
Enjoy some of our pictures from our "day-cation"!
Brian and I met 13 years ago this weekend at a local event called Harborfest in Oswego,NY (on Lake Ontario). It was the summer of 1995, the summer of Hootie and the Blowfish, working at the Waterfront restaurant, and jet skiing everyday. I loving recall those memories as being the most fun and carefree of my life. Who knew that on the same weekend 4 years later, we would marry? Even though we didn't have children right away I consider our wedding date the birth of our family. This is the day our journey together officially started.
Some people would be aghast to know that we spent this year's anniversary with our kids, that we didn't carve a little bit of time just for ourselves. The truth is that if we had people knocking down our front door to take our kids, we probably would have gone away alone. But we don't. And I'll share another fact, we really ENJOY traveling with them. I think the way we look at it is that we had eight years of adventures and togetherness with out kids. So sometimes it's logistics and easier to take them with us, and other times it's just purely because we covet time with them. Someday they may be too involved with school, activities, friends, or jobs and family time will be more difficult to accommodate.
I guess this is my round about way of saying that we took a "day-cation" to celebrate #9. We drove to Ithaca, well Trumansburg to be exact, and hiked to Taughannock Falls. I did this a few times as a kid with my family and always loved it. It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm. The kids and Brian in their bathing suits and I with the camera (Shocking I know!) Well actually I was a nervous wreck that I would slip on a slippery rock and the $****.**'s worth of camera gear around my neck would be ruined. But who know whether it was the stupidity or the dare-devilishness that took over... I carried it the entire way and wound up with some great images of the day. After the falls we drove to a winery, Wagner Vineyards, to sample wine, beer, and root beer. In our typical fashion we drove to the winery using our map and only country and seasonal roads. It's so much more fun that way!!! The kids loved it! On the seasonal roads Sam thought we were truly 4-wheeling and he mentioned several times, "look at all the dust we are kicking up!" Beth got a kick out of the tree branches that were hitting the car and the leaves falling into her lap. Dust and leaves... simple pleasures indeed!
We drove home only to meet up with Dad and Ellen for dinner at a restaurant. The kids went straight to bed for the night and Brian and I got our quiet time together. We threw in the latest Netflix delivery and cuddled on the couch. We watched "The Bucket List". Decent movie, not the greatest of all time or even worthy of my top 10 list, but worthy of a watch. It reminded us of our "life lists" we wrote a couple of years ago... but that's for another day, another post!
Enjoy some of our pictures from our "day-cation"!
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Just passing through... Congratulations on your anniversary.
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