Anniversary

A week ago today marked our 9 year anniversary.  We started the day off by attending Elianna's morning recitation at school.  Elianna invited her best friend, Dani and her family to come and watch.    They were so gracious to get up early and fight the morning work traffic to come watch her.

After recitation, as is our tradition, both for after recitation and apparently anniversary breakfast (we went to VI last year too), we headed to the Village Inn for some good old fashioned eggs, bacon and hash browns.  Seeing as it was Wednesday, we added a piece of free pie - to be eaten later of course.

After errands, which included fighting the crowds at the new Trader Joes, we dropped Elianna back off for school and headed home.  Chris had big plans of renewing his CDL license at the DMV while I did nothing.  Yes, you read that right - nothing.  And it was nice.

Oh but our day did not end there.  I headed back over to pick Elianna up from school and was greeted with a bad attitude which almost turned into Chris and I canceling our anniversary dinner plans.  I'm not sure if it was the early morning and the running around before school, but a certain little girl was grumpy!  Let's just say there was hysterical crying, screaming and yelling of "NO!" at me the whole way across the school yard, across the parking lot, and most of the way home in the car.  Fun times as a parent!  Needless to say, after a consequence and a discussion with the Papi Man, she was ready to face the world with a better attitude.

For dinner, Chris and I quick grabbed a Groupon and headed to the Wash Park Grille.  It was very delicious and definitely a step up from our "norm".  We began by sharing a Caesar Salad - I know, romance at its finest, huh?  I had a chili coffee rubbed beef tenderloin with duck bacon, kale, balsamic roared Brussels sprouts; topped with corn, heirloom cherry tomato and gorgonzola.  Doesn't that just sound marvelous?  It was!  Chris got the Chef's special catch of the day which was some type of salmon with heirloom tomatoes and a sauce overtop with asparagus.  Can you tell I got the first description off Wash Park's website while I simply made up what Chris had?  Those people who make up food descriptions are good!  When it came time for dessert, we opted to simply eat our free piece of VI pie.  Can't go wrong with free pie!

All in all it was a good anniversary and I am blessed to have spent the last 9 years with my Chris as we stumble through this crazy thing called life together.  I love you, my Chris!