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Five Year Anniversary

Sammy and I celebrated our five year anniversary. It's funny because we always talked about the big trips that we might go on for that anniversary and a few years ago we'd settled on New York. But that just wasn't in the cards for us now that we're at five years. Finances, ability to travel, wanting to travel, and so many things were in the way. And that's okay!

I'm not going to lie and say that I don't feel a little twinge of jealousy looking at people traveling all over to celebrate one year of marriage, or even six months. But I'm perfectly happy with how we spent our five year anniversary.

Sammy took the day off to spend with us. Originally we'd wanted to drive up to the mountain town we spent our honeymoon in and walk around. But Aaron woke up late, Sammy's car needed an oil change, I needed to pick up some medicine from a far away pharmacy that I was scared to go to, I needed to water a tree.
I always provide proof of life when taking care of things. Please note my newspaper.
 So, we went on a long walk in the morning, took care of all those errands, and I did some writing while Aaron took a nap next to Sammy while he played his favorite video game. We kept making plans while he slept and decided we were going to get burritos and then go on a picnic at a nearby park. But then it started raining so that was off the table. 
Instead we ended up at Taco John's a new place we discovered that is a level better than Taco Bell. Then we drove by a new mall and decided to walk around. We had a lot of fun together. We went into the Croc store and looked at which ones we wanted to buy Aaron one day. 

We ended up in a toy store and left with toys for Sammy and I, but none for Aaron. We just couldn't find him anything unique, but I found Disney puzzles for a steal, and Sammy got some surprised bobble heads and ended up with Thor and Venom.

Aaron got hungry so we ended up feeding him outside and just sitting together. 
On Saturday we went on a date to Boondocks and went bowling and played a bunch of arcade games. We went to lunch beforehand and I was feeling really anxious and Sammy really listened to me and we had a really great conversation that I really appreciated. 
Before we bowled I told Sammy I would get 80 and he would get 60. I ended up getting 81 and he got 59. Do I know us or do I know us?

We got Aaron this dragon with our tickets and I was so excited to give it to him. He didn't really care for it though. One day!
Once we had Aaron we went to get some fro yo since that's where we went on our first date and this five year anniversary wouldn't be possible without froyo. It was a great weekend together and I'm so grateful to have Sammy. This year has been so hard. Our relationship has changed so much and we as people have changed, and so many circumstances have changed. We've had to be much more intentional with each other and our time and have been learning a lot. I'm so, so grateful that I get to do this all with Sammy though.

We also discovered that Aaron's hair is long enough to fit in a ponytail that weekend haha!



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