Happy 7th Anniversary to US!

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan and Susie Widloe

August 3, 2001

The big joke in our family is the fact that neither Nathan nor myself can seem to remember the actual date of our anniversary. As a matter of fact, pretty much everyone in my family has a hard time remembering it-if for no other reason than-um, well I have no idea. I have no idea why in the world this is such a hard day to remember. After all, it is number 2 on the greatest day of my life list-losing out to my new number 1 Sophie's birthday a few years ago.
I got smart though and put our wedding album on the fireplace mantel, which has the date imprinted on the cover!
To celebrate, we sat down and contemplated where we are-emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially as a couple with 7 years under our belt + one perfect little mouse and one perfect not-so-little golden retriever.
We laughed a lot.
And I really mean A LOT!!!!!
We decided being the smart, mature, grown ups we are, that we would spend the weekend doing all of the normal, fairly boring things that define who we are: hanging out at the pool, going to a friend's BBQ-till real late, almost 10pm!;), then sleeping in, having a yummy Sunday morning breakfast, relaxing in the sun, napping, ordering pizza for dinner, taking a leisurely family walk with the puppy, going out for ice cream, and ending the day with a family showing of our wedding video. (I can't wait to get that uploaded to a DVD!) We also decided that starting today we will start a 10Th anniversary savings fund so we can go on a 2Nd honeymoon to Hawaii. We loved the 1st one in the Bahamas with it's all inclusive swim up bars and wave runners and private beaches. But as grown ups, we are also looking forward to something a little more mature. (that's code for really expensive-so in the meantime, these little anniversaries will be kept simple)
It was pretty much your perfect weekend. No kidding. It sounds so boring, but yet we smiled, laughed, talked, played, and just enjoyed each other's company as if we were still trying to get to know each other like we did when we were dating. I'm still amazed at how we never seem to run out of these to talk about. Ever. We are truly best friends and it is SO MUCH FUN!
Oh, and we also researched the meaning and significance of the number 7. Without going into all of the details, I just want to express our complete joy that we made it to this 'holier than thou' number itself. They don't call it lucky #7 for nothing! Feel free to hop on to wikipedia and check it out.

Sophie in her favorite jumpy thingy at the BBQ. Below, my guy in the brown shirt playing his fave bean bag game at the BBQ.