On the Train on the way to New Orleans, September, 2009.
Dinner at the Bombay Club.
On our 2nd anniversary, we celebrated a little closer to home, staying at the Winfrey (where we stayed on our wedding night) and at a Bed and Breakfast in Vincent. We went to the Alabama game that weekend, as it was Katie's first game as a Crimsonette. We couldn't miss that!
Jason and I with Katie before her first game as a Crimsonette and at a game last year.
On our 3rd Anniversary, we went back to New Orleans. We drove this time and I booked a fishing trip for us to go red fishing. We had our anniversary dinner at Emeril's.
These are pics of our dessert and our fish! This was a GREAT trip.
On our 4th Anniversary, we were at the beach. We spent a good bit of time last September in Gulf Shores as my parent had a house down there for the month. We enjoyed the beach and ate our anniversary dinner at Louisiana Lagniappe.
This year, with scheduling and so much going on, we needed to stay close to home. We spent the day in the Birmingham area running errands and just spending time together. We tried to follow with tradition on gifts. 5th anniversary is wood. Jason had a custom made wood ring made for me. It has a pink accent that is from an extremely rare wood. He hand made me a wooden ring box for the ring. He also got me a wooden music box and flowers. I got Jason wood working tools and supplies. He now has a hobby lathe and drill press, along with tons of supplies to make things.
These are my prizes.
This is us all dressed up and ready for dinner. We had dinner at Bottega in Birmingham. All I can say is WOW!! Our dear, sweet friends, Barry and Elizabeth had our waiter deliver a bottle of wine to our table immediately upon our arrival. We were so surprised at the awesome, sweet gesture and it really made our night. The food was out of this world and we were seated near some awesome people. At the table to our left, a family was celebrating a gentleman's 85th birthday and at the table to our right, four friends were celebrating a new business launch. Bottega had such a warm, friendly, family atmosphere. We were treated to desert wine on the house as well as many other sweet gestures to make our evening special. We reminisced over our time together, even getting to share stories with our neighbors in the restaurant. It was a magical night and anniversary. We will most certainly be going back to Bottega soon.
As evidence by the lack of posts to my blog lately, our lives have gotten extremely busy. Jason is working most every Saturday, which is when I am off. During the week, we have work, home, I try to run as often as I can, animals, and trying to keep in touch with family and friends. We fail miserably at most of it, but we do our best to keep it all together and enjoy each day and its blessings. We are blessed beyond measure to be able to take this one day to pause and celebrate our unique and special union.
I pray that each of you find that once in a lifetime love with someone who is your partner, best friend and helpmate. I would be so lost without Jason. We have so much fun together going on elaborate adventures and doing nothing at all. We have been through some ups and downs over the years and I know we have much more to look forward to, but as we reflected over the past year, it has really been a tough one. This past year is possibly the most difficult that Jason and I have had. But as we looked across the table at each other last night, as we look at each other each day, none of the negative comes to mind. All we can do is smile, so happy and thankful that we have each other to share all of this life with. I pray each of you are this blessed as well.
