For Our Weekend of Celebration

We found another way to celebrate our 10th. The little sister of a high school friend invited us to her wedding the same weekend we are celebrating. What better way to celebrate the anniversary of our vows by going and watching a couple make theirs brand new? It's a chance to get all fancy dressed up and mingle with old friends and I can't wait to be there as they commit.

Customer Service Rave

Yes, yes I know you are probably wondering "Who is that SAPtastic lovestruck fool that keeps posting on Shelly's blog?" Uh, yeah.

Aside from that, I want to take second to rave about Target.com's customer service. I ordered an anniversary party kit for next month but received it with various pieces from another party kit inside instead, the bachelorette kit of all things! I called Target.com customer service and they ordered a replacement to be shipped to me expedited, plus they let me keep the other kit as a "gift from Target.com." So... who wants a bachelorette party?!

It's the Little Things

Ran across a great article tonight titled "23 Ways to Celebrate Your Marriage" and it's definitely work skimming if you have a few moments.

http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/couplesandmarriage/articlerb.aspx?cp-documentid=6143052&GT1=10920

I particularly like #4 Keep a sex diary and #5 Take the happy challenge. I'm also going to work on #9 Re-create your early bonding ritual. When we were dating we would frequently go out behind the racetrack in his little blue truck, a prime make-out spot in the desert. When we started talking "family vehicle" he reluctantly sold his little blue truck which we'd had taken us to the place where many great early memories were made. Last summer we purchased a little

blue truck and I'm thinking I will re-create some of the things I remember about it, such as the little token I'd given him to hang on his rear view mirror,and how I'd sit right next to him with my hand on his leg while he drove, maybe even park out in the desert and watch the stars from the tailgate.

He's the one always saying "It's the little things," and he's right because those are the ones that slip through your fingers like grains of shifting sand, but those little things piled together could make an entire sandcastle with some effort.

A Celebration Is in the Works

It is most certainly a good thing it wasn't my New Year's resolution to blog daily! Couldn't keep up with that one!

I'm in the midst of planning a celebration of the 10+ years of sanctified, blessed, devoted love I share with my husband. 10 years may not seem like all that much, but we have defied the odds. Our friends and co-workers and parents divorce all around us and we watch the tatterings of broken hearts falling apart before our very eyes. All the while as a couple we are learning and growing from their mistakes...it won't happen to us if we both want this so badly, right?

10 years is just the number of years since the vows we took, but we've know eachother almost 3 years more than that. Nearly half the years of my life I have spent with the man I call my husband. For all we've been through and for all we've been blessed with, we've decided to mark this special event with a celebration. Not just any cake & ice-cream celebration, but one that lasts the entire weekend and includes our family and our friends. Since we like poker so much, we're holding a poker tournament for our friends and then we'll hold a separate family celebration to thank them for all their support. Then of course we'll fit in some couple time somehow, with the specifics yet to be determined but I assure you with a wink, wink that it will be highly reminiscent of those days back when we were dating when we told my parents we were doing chemistry homework at his house! ;)