4 Years Already?!?!?

I know that this post is a couple of weeks late, but better late then never, right?

So late last month we celebrated our 4th wedding Anniversary. It is hard to believe that it has already been 4 years! The time has flown by. Our anniversary celebration kind of stretched over several days, so here is what we did.

On our actual anniversary we made a great dinner at home. It included filet's, Alaskan King Crab, fingerling potatoes with onions and an awesome anniversary cake that Sherri made.

Here is a photo of the King Crab for dinner.


For anniversary gifts this year we decided that since we already have a lot of "stuff" and that we really feel fortunate that we have good paying jobs that we love and have been blessed financially, that instead of just buying things and adding to our ever growing collection of stuff, we wanted to find a creative way to leverage the resources that we would have spent on gifts for ourselves, and give that away to someone who needed it. So, we had the idea, that since the traditional 4th anniversary gifts are fruit and flowers, that we would go onto Kiva.org, a micro-finance website that we use and love, and see if we could find someone around the world who was trying to start a business that related to fruit or flowers that we could assist and give the money to them. Well, we found the perfect people to donate to! One of them is a single mother of 5 in Peru who runs a fruit stand in her village and the other group is from Uganda and they grow and sell fruit to several merchants around their area. It worked out awesome! The feeling that we got and the memory that we made giving rather than hoarding is such a powerful thing. It truly is better to give than to receive.

The weekend after our anniversary we found an amazing deal at the Marriott downtown and we stayed there for 2 nights. It worked out perfect because we actually had a concert and wine tasting downtown Friday night and then Saturday night we had dinner downtown and then went and saw The Lion King. Staying downtown let us be close to our activities and it gave us a great couple days "away" and we were able to read, relax and just enjoy being together.

A quick Lion King review. It is amazing. If it is ever near you, GO SEE IT!! We have been fortunate to see quite a few shows over the past few years and we both agree that this was the most amazing production that we have ever seen, BY FAR!!