Our 9th Year Anniversary Evening

9 years is not quite 10 but still something huge. We can say we are in our 10th year of marriage which makes it sound like 10. I'd thought to share some of the stuff we did.

It started around 5:30 PM. We were really hungry but we had always wanted to visit the Shasta Historical Society museum as we are such fans of history. We were there for almost 2 hours and gazing over the history and photos. It was a real treat. We had to really find the energy inside us to pull us out of the building so we could go eat.

After that we thought over what 9 years really meant and decided with our hunger pains it would be better to fast and give up the meal for the Lord as we sit and pray. We found a bench in a park and gave praise to God for 9 years of marriage as we gazed into each others eyes remembering how lucky we were to have each other.

Everything was going perfect and we felt it would be best to give up the next hour of fun to go volunteer at Walmart at offer our services and time to pull in grocery carts from the parking lot. We covered the parking lot like no one else could. Even though there were times that we were on opposite sides of the parking lot, we never lost eye contact with each other as we were celebrating something special... 9 years. We worked up a sweat volunteering our services, but found it rewarding to give up our time.

It was a bit late, but it had been many years since being able to work on one of our favorite hobby's. Yes, bug collecting. We were only missing a few of those bugs that only come out at night time to complete our collection. It was a special moment as we were both going after the last bug we needed for the collection and our nets got each other in the air as we trapped the fire-fly. What a perfect night and great way to complete our bug collection on our 9th year anniversary.

We had to pick up the kids later in the evening. Through all the chaos in the car with the kids doing their normal thing of making ear piercing sounds in the car, it felt magical. These kids were a symbol of our marriage and in our eyes, there was nothing they could do wrong. We even encouraged them to be louder as it was a soothing sound for us to hear. In fact the ride home made me think of having surgery reversal cause we should add another 4 kids to our marriage for a total of 8. We knew something was missing with the gap of kids, so we headed to the ER for emergency surgery to reverse what was done to prevent us from populating our house even more. The surgery was painful but well worth it.

We had separate beds at night time to celebrate purity as it wouldn't feel right doing anything else in celebrating 9 years. It had nothing to do with the intense pain of emergency surgery reversal but because we wanted to give up another thing in our long evening of celebration. We stayed up all night sitting on our own purity beds 10 feet apart from each other and just talked, and talked and talked some more. That is one thing we still LOVE to do in our marriage is talk. There is never an end to conversation between us and we even made a list of all the topics that we couldn't cover last night that we hope to hit on today.

I will say that 9 years feels great. It was a great night of celebration. 10 years is going to be huge. We've talked about going at the celebration by doing big stuff such as visiting a train museum, watch our favorite show on the home and garden channel, taking the metal detectors out to the sandy beaches to find some jewels, or dedicating some time to help find some of the criminals from Americans Most Wanted.