We are 3!

Yesterday the old man and I celebrated 3 years of marriage.  We are so wise and know all the things by now.  Not really.  I actually feel like the older I get, the less I know.  Maybe thats just me.

What I do know is that we are a simple pair.  We love each other, we love our daughter, and we love the small things.  Pizza in bed.  Movie nights.  Cookies. Taco Bell.  With the powers of social media, I feel like I get caught up in a lot of “we should be doing things”  “we should go on trips”  “ADVENTURE FOREVER!”.  The truth is.  We are busy.  We have a very small budget, and a baby girl, and jobs, and family, and life.  As much as I would love to get outta town for a week with mah dude…we dont always have the funds, or the sitter, or the time…really.  So as I sit on my couch watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S for the bajillionth time and scroll through my instagram feed of all my beautiful friends vacationing or people I dont know with my dream jobs eating off of their hand made rustic table feeding their perfectly dressed child food from their rooftop garden…its hard to feel like this little life I have is special.

Well…it is.  Yesterday we celebrated our anniversary in true Lemster fashion.  Low key.  We started the day with a trip down to Winchell’s and ate us some donuts.  Penny got to try her first ever, as a sort of tester run for her birthday on Saturday.  We thought a donut would be a good first birthday treat.  We went to the mall and got some birthday gear and then took her buns to grandmas.  We ate salads and a boat load of chips and salsa at our favorite restaurant in claremont and then wandered around town.  We ended up in Rhino and decided to add to our little record collection.  Its so fun marrying someone with different music tastes.  It makes our music so much more well rounded and when we find music that we are both fans of its like the perfect cherry on top.  We’ve decided to start working on our Jackson family collection which is something we both agreed needed to be done.  I will always love me some Michael, but I do have to say one of the things on my list of dream jobs as a 10 year old was Janet Jackson back up dancer.  I’m not ashamed to say that dream is still alive and kickin.

I wish I had more photos of our day, but I was actually enjoying it too much to think about it.  We sat and talked while we ate about the last three years and what our future holds.  Where we would like to be and what we would be doing.  It’s nice to get out of the house and to sit across from the spouse of yours and just talk about everything you want to talk about.  Thats one of my favorite thing about mine and bretts relationship.  From day one conversation over meals has been one of our strong points.  We are simple people, but our hearts are pretty extravagant, and I love to hear from his often.  So.  In a nut shell.  I didnt have to fly to bora bora to have the best anniversary ever.  We just drove 20 minutes and spent a day holding hands and eating good food.  I’m okay with that.

Happy 3 years honey bear.  You are sorta my favorite.