Nine Year Anniversary

Last Friday was Josh and I's nine year anniversary.  This means we'll be married in less than a year now (hello, exercise, I've been trying to ignore you)!  This was definitely one of the best anniversaries ever.  Josh came home with roses and a potted flower plant (because you're supposed to give pottery for a nine year anniversary).  He also got me some more surprises that are on the way, in the mail.  I got him a pretty cool X-Men shirt, Superman boxers, and Carcassonne (which is a board game and also a place in France).  I set up my lights and we took some pictures in the living room.  We decided we're going to take pictures on every anniversary and keep them in an album so we can see how we change over the years.  I think it will be especially cool for our kids to see.  That way they will know we weren't always old and lame.  After that, I got treated to an hour massage which was amazing!  Then, we went to Romeo's for an early dinner.  We had never been there before, but we had always talked about going.  It was so nice and, since we went early, there were very few people there and it almost felt like we had the whole restaurant to ourselves.  We got the most amazing spinach and artichoke dip with some toasted bread slices.  For my meal, I had spinach manicotti and Josh had this awesome pizza with like five yummy cheeses.  I also had two mexican martinis which were equally delicious.  After eating, we rented a movie and hung out at home.

Then, the next day I had taken off work, so we decided to do some more fun stuff.  First, we went to breakfast at Maria's Taco Express.  It was very delicious and inexpensive.  After that, we went to the Jester King brewery.  It was so awesome!  It's way out 290 and in the middle of the country.  When you get there, you pay $10 and get a souvenir pint glass which you get to fill with beer three times.  Then, they do a tour of the brewery which was hosted by one of the founding brothers (which I thought was pretty freakin' cool).  It was really interesting to learn the process and everyone there was really laid back and relaxed.  After the tour, we enjoyed our beers and sat around for awhile before we headed back to town. When we got back into Austin, we went to Joe's birthday party at Plucker's which was followed by a trip to Pinballz which is an awesome arcade we hadn't been to before.  They have at least 100 pinball machines along with every other type of arcade cabinet you can think of.  We had a wonderful time.

Here is a photo from our little anniversary photo shoot.  I sure do love this guy.  <3