Celebrating 7 Years!!

This past weekend, TJ and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. My parents were willing to take our children for the entire weekend, so we packed our weekend full of fun things we don't get to do much anymore now that we are parents. I met Mom at Chuck E Cheese on Friday morning to swap the kids. They had a blast. They ran through 30 tokens faster than they ever had before and hardly had any tickets to show for it. They kept using their tokens for rides instead of games, but they loved them. Mady's favorite was this little fire truck and Trip's favorite was the roller coaster. They even got to see Chuck E himself because he was making an appearance for someone's birthday. TJ and I met at home later that afternoon and began our weekend alone!!! We started off with dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant and then went to a movie. Saturday we went back to our reception site...Turner Field...and watched the Braves beat the Tigers (barely)! We stayed the night in Buckhead and went out to eat and bar hopped a little. Not too much though, because the next day we went to Six Flags. This is the part of the weekend where TJ and I realized that we are now officially too old for somethings that we used to do before kids...like riding lots of roller coasters in one day. After we rode the first roller coaster, my neck and back started hurting and by the third one, TJ started looking a little pale and was trying not to get sick. After a short break and some more low-key rides, we rallied and rode two more big ones. It was lots of fun, but I think we'll wait to do that again until Trip and Mady are ready to ride too. And, hopefully by then, they can ride without us. On our way up to pick the kids up at my parents' house on Monday, we had the most exciting part of our weekend, a part we did not plan on. We ended up behind some poor old man who tried to kill himself and lots of other cars on the road. We still aren't 100% sure what was wrong with him, but we think he was in some kind of diabetic shock. After swerving all over the road for several miles, the crazy ride finally ended with him plowing into a ravine he could not get out of. We, along with some of Georgia's finest rednecks, waited for the ambulance to arrive before continuing on to pick up our kids. I still can't believe we all made it through the experience alive. As TJ put it, "now we will never forget our 7th anniversary!" And, I will never forget the day I married my best friend. Our life the last 7 years has been almost as crazy as that ride on Monday morning, lots of ups and downs, but through it all I've grown to love him more each day! Happy Anniversary TJ!