We were home for our anniversary this year. We've chosen over the years to travel during the same week as our anniversary, and that made for some pretty spectacular July twenty eighths!
I remember this anniversary with us in Hawaii. That was a pretty spectacular day!
We were such a young family then and it was awesome to share our day with our girls. We spent the day at the beach, we had a causal lunch overlooking the ocean, we renewed our wedding vows with our girls, and then we drove to a different part of the island for a spectacular dinner at the same resort we spent our honeymoon twenty years early.
Twenty One was right before our trip to Disney World and it is the same place we had lunch yesterday.
I won't go into all of the anniversary posts with links but we've had some spectacular ones: we were in Canada on a cruise, in Alaska, Vancouver, British Columbia.... and we've actually loved being a whole family on the anniversary day. We've loved 'sharing' it with our girls over the years. We want them to know the 'feeling' the day has and our story.
But this summer we weren't away on July twenty eighth so we had to figure out what would 'mark the day' and make it special for us.
We chose to go to morning Mass at our local church. It was quiet, short, lovely. Sitting in that pew next to my husband was the perfect way for us to celebrate. Our wedding twenty seven years ago was a Mass and a deeply religious-Catholic sacrament and our faith has certainly carried us through our lives, so it felt fitting that this was the place to begin our day.
Next we went out to breakfast. We chose a local, small, adorable, homey breakfast place that is in our town. Nothing fancy but the best food in the world!
We headed home and sat on our porch swing for a while and actually just talked about the upcoming school year - changes we wanted to make, things like that. I wrote fast and furious our ideas in a notebook. I think we've got some good ideas. {I'll share more on that as the school year unfolds}.
We waited for Anna to come home from school {her job this summer} to have lunch with Abigail and we headed out for the whole afternoon.
First we ate lunch here (this us us back on our anniversary years ago) and loved our yummy sandwiches. There were the most amazing looking desserts too but wanted to wait a bit.
Collinsville is a quaint New England town with several wonderful antique stores that we love meandering through. I was looking for something for our porch and found it! {oops, no picture of that - wish I took one} and we carted that thing home. {I'll share of a picture of it on our porch as soon as I get it all decorated}.
We headed back to order desserts. I was so happy with the cake I had. It tasted just like our wedding cake and it was delicious!
We took our time on the way home {the girls wanted us to stay out all day so they could talk and hang out together - love that about sisters} and listened to a fun / sappy/ emotional / silly play list I put together for our anniversary. It was all the songs we've loved over the years, our wedding song, and even newer songs that we just love.
It was home for a cozy night at home. We watched our long wedding video with the girls. It had been years since we'd seen it (usually away traveling this week) and it was fun to see it!
We had a cozy night in eating dinner with the girls.
I think wedding anniversary's are just the sweetest day in the whole year.
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