5th wedding anniversary

Shel and I celebrated our first milestone wedding anniversary (5 years) on Aug 6-7. Five years is a long time, but we've had a great ride! So many memories...

> getting through the wedding was a challenge in itself due to the two ceremonies and very different cultures we had to meld together

> buying a house and finally starting a life together under the same roof

> postponing our honeymoon due to hurricane Gustav in Sept 04!! I was not at all a happy camper when we had to cancel the trip the day we were supposed to fly out to Florida for our cruise... but luckily we got to finally make the trip in Feb 05

> working at the same company... I loved our lunches together

> making the big move to Austin... yee haw!

> taking our trips to fun places like Scotland, Wales, England, Spain, Mexico, Argentina and most recently to Italy. You are the best travel partner!

> Starting a family... can't wait to meet our little girl :)

> and the list could go on and on...

Shel, life with you over the last 5 years has been wonderful... here's to many many more! In September we'll have known each other for 12 years...can't believe we've known each other for over a decade! Love you hun :)

Our celebrations were low key... On Aug 6th, we went to dinner at The Belmont and dessert was waiting for us back at home... the giant cookie cake...yum!



On Aug 7th, Shel took the day off of work and we had a lazy morning sleeping in and then drove to Llano to the famous Cooper's bbq place. It was good, but wouldn't take a special trip out for that again... Rudy's has spoiled us. We stopped off to see Lake Buchanan on our way back, but with the low lake levels, it was a sad sight. We got back home that afternoon, tired and hot... just in time for a nap (for Nikki anyway).


That evening we spent some time prepping for our future with kids by babysitting for Nicole and Mike. More on that later...

And that's our anniversary in a nutshell :)