9 years and wait... what's THAT for!?

SOOOO This last week (wed the 26th)  Brad and I celebrated
               
                                 9 (NINE)

                                                                                                           Years of our Happily Ever After!

A few weeks ago i accidently broke his favorite cooking utensil (ooops)....

And then on last monday, brad realized that he "MISPLACED" both of his flash drives with his

       ENTIRE DISSERTATION
On it.

Now i have to insert this little bit here.... we DON'T buy anniversary gifts...
      1. our fun student budget doesn't REALLLY allow for it.
      2. our aniversary is exactly 1 month after Christmas
      3.  and lastly, we just think it's a bit silly really.
But, i thought since i had just broken his favorite utensil, we could swing the 3 bucks for a funny little "here ya go :)"
  
So I hid it in my nightstand drawer.

ok, now back to monday, 2 days before our anniversary while we are frantically searching for the missing flash drives, i go into our room where brad is under the bed scouring each and every crevice. then he goes for the nightstand drawer while i'm obviously not paying attention....

Brad: "noel, what is this doing in your nightstand drawer?)

me (slapping my face, cause he ALWAYS finds or figures out his gifts for anything!!!!) "awe nuts!!! that's supposed to be for you for our anniversary!"

Brad (with a very confused look, ya know, the one with one eyebrow raised much MUCH  Much higher than the other one) "What's it for and WHY is it in your nightstand?!?!?!"

and well, here i have to insert that we don't really use kitchen utensils outside of the kitchen or for things other than their intended purposes, just to make sure y'all understand we're not "those" kind of people....

But i do want to say that it's experiences like this and all sorts of other fun ones that have made our marriage

"Happily Ever After"


I know a lot of people say marriage is hard work, and takes time and adjusting and blah blah blah...

but seriously, I don't buy that.  Sure we have days where one or both of us is/are grumpy and may need a couple of time-outs, and we may even have stretches where one of us seems to be pulling the other along, but most of the time, we get to be working side by side, ya know... teamwork!

after 9 years, we still have never fought, or raised our voices to each other.  We still are falling in love... even with dirty laundry piling up all around us and stresses of life, almost 4 kids, almost 5 degrees, and a dissertation.  He still makes me laugh and i still make him smile :)

and we are still cookin' up a storm in the... "kitchen", with all our favorite utensils!

p.s. we DID find the flash drives... BOTH of them!