Fifteen Down

So fifteen! Fifteen years ago (yesterday) I married the greatest snocone maker in the world, without even knowing then about his mad sno-kone making skilz. (He didn't know about my amazing sprinkler system designing talents either--we were both holding back).

We planned to go back to Tahiti for our 10th anniversary, but we bought a house. Then we planned to go back to Tahiti for our 15th anniversary. And instead we bought a house. And paid tuition. And fed our children who think that food is necessary.

So we stayed home, and had a pretty great anniversary which really encapsulated our life together.

I started writing a long narrative of this day, but guess what? It's interesting only to us. I will tell you that it involved 200 water balloons, 500 sno-kones, a hell of a lot of rain, a swim practice, a dive practice, forts in the living room, shrimp scampi, amazing sea scallops, and a little Wii and "So You Think You Can Dance." And it was good.

Kolby surprised me with a new wedding band he designed. I've been wanting a plain band because my diamond always puts holes in the rubber gloves at the hospital. I love the ring he designed--I'm finding it tough to get a good photo, but here's a glimpse:

It's hard to tell in the photo, but there's an inset design of yellow gold in the white gold and the design has a little symbol for us and for each of the girls. Kolby was sweating bullets about it, but I love it. I screwed up on my part--told him the wrong size--so we'll need to get it adjusted. But he did good (even if I did ruin the surprise by reporting the Discover Card as stolen.)

I do have to tell you this one story. So as we sat down to the amazing dinner Kolby made last night, Kolby made a toast to us--something along the lines of "Here's to a great 15 years---and here's hoping for another three more." It took exactly 1 second for Madeline to belly laugh.