The TOP TEN LIST

You know you have been married 10 years when...

1. If you take off your wedding ring there is a big enough dent that people will know you are married. OR you could be like Steph and not wear it, then people question whether you are married as you drag 3 kids around. Just for the record the only reason I don't where my ring is it is too tight, if you can actually believe that.

2. Everything falls apart or breaks down. We need to get married again just so we can have another reception. (Donations are accepted and appreciated)

3. A good night together means falling asleep together on the couch while the TV is on. (A typical date night)

4. You now have enough furniture to fill up your 3 bedroom apartment although none of it matches.

5. You are halfway done paying off your student loan. Maybe in another 10 years it will be paid off and we can save for a mortgage. Although, we will most likely be renting because our kids will start going off to college.

6. Your kids can read you bedtime stories.

7. You never seem to get ahead. Yes, we are still BROKE! Any raise seems to go to more kids. (No, I'm not announcing anything.)

8. It is rare to get a good night’s sleep due to kids waking up, or we are up way too late trying to catch up on everything.

9. You get up way too early every morning to work off all your flab, but by the time the evening comes around you have to split a half gallon of ice cream just to make it through to the next day.

10. You own a minivan and you LOVE it!

So what did we do or didn't do for our anniversary? Well, we did have some big plans for our ten year anniversary. A long awaited getaway was in our future UNTIL life happened. In a matter of a few months we have had to replace our brakes and rotors, 4 tires, and a freezer. Our dreams were shattered. So, we arranged for a sitter so we could attend the temple and at least spend the morning and afternoon together.

The morning arrived, we made sure to grab our temple recommends but immediately noticed they had expired in April and it was now the 1st day of May. Surely they would allow a grace period of only one day. Right? Well, we got ready anyway dropped off our kids and hoped for the best. But on the drive to Manhattan we started to wonder if they would indeed let us in. Would they turn us away? If they did, then what? What would we do in our church clothes and how would I survive in my heels in the City and what would we do with our suitcases full of temple clothing?

As we pulled into the parking lot we realized we were about to find out. As we handed over our temple recommends the gentleman kindly said they were expired and we wouldn't be able to enter into the temple. Looking back we should of known better, after all we are SUPPOSED to be honest in ALL our dealings. Whoops! Yes, RULES ARE RULES! Too often we try to slide by but we can't slide by when it comes to entering into the kingdom of heaven. I guarantee you we wouldn't of thought twice about using our expired temple recommends if the Savior happened to be at the entrance. Yes, we learned a valuable lesson.

So, there we were in the city with no kids wondering what we should do in our church attire. We always told ourselves if we found ourselves in this situation (not exact situation, just the situation without kids) we would do something we would never do with the kids. So we went to Central Park trying to decide what we should do when we were approached by a Russian man trying to persuade us to take a joy ride on his bicycle. The price tag wasn't convincing but the sweet ride was (and I didn't mind his accent either). Walking around in Central Park in heels just wasn't appealing. So we caved, after all this was something we would never do with the kids. We actually learned about a lot of interesting facts. Did you know that the entire park was man made (except for the rocks of course).

Along with learning about the celebrities and the millions of dollars they spend in these high rise apartments we did capture a few pictures of some famous landmarks. Here we are at the fountain you see on the show FRIENDS.



This is the John Lennon mosaic


At the end of our excursion we went to an Italian restaurant called A VOCE for brunch. It was a pretty classy place and the food did not disappoint. It was a great day despite not getting to do what we set out to do.




For our Anniversary I got Rob a SUPERMAN shirt because he is SUPER!!! And he is my MAN!!!

He is SUPERMAN!!! Even though life happened and we had to cancel our getaway at least life happens with you Rob. Love you, Babe! Happy 10 year anniversary.