Happy Anniversary To Us!

Thursday August 9, 2007 was our 10th anniversary. Vince sent me some beautiful roses at work. They stayed alive and opened up for about two weeks!Where does the time go? We had always wanted to go on a big trip for our 10th and renew our vows in church. Well the big trip had to go by the wayside, the only big trip we'll be going on anytime soon, soon being the operative word, is China! And that's the only one we want to go on right now! We decided to spend our weekend by ourselves so we went to Ross Bridge Resort and Spa in Hoover, which if you haven't been you need to go. It was so great! We totally felt like we were out of town on vacation somewhere. We lay by the pool all day, I had a massage, it was fabulous. We out to dinner and had seafood at the Cajun Steamer in Hoover, it was wonderful. Just to get to relax and escape reality for a day was so healing!
The front of the hotel, which I didn't get a picture of, looks like a big castle. It's a Renaissance Hotel and was so nice. And for you golfers, it's where the Regions Classic (used to be the Bruno's Memorial Classic) is played every May now.
There was even a guy by the pool playing guitar and singing, it truly was a vacation. If you look at our blog alot you've seen the previous entry where we making hidious faces with Madison. Well this is how it got started. After dinner out that night we came back to our hotel and realized we hadn't had anyone take a picture of us on our anniversary weekend, so we decide to take some ourselves. The other ones are like the one with Madison, just totally goofy. You can tell we are a match made in heaven. Who else makes stupid faces into the camera on their anniversary? God always knows what he is doing!
We had planned on renewing our vows that Sunday after Mass. Well, when we got to church the air conditioning was not working, so we postponed it until the next Sunday. Well, it was still broken so we finally renewed them this past Sunday. (Madison is our photographer here!)It may seem hokey to some of you, but I became Catholic after we got married and although we had a priest at our wedding, I really wanted to renew our vows in the Catholic church and we got to do it in our church home with our priest Father Bill Lucas, which made it really special. As Vince said, we say "I love you" so much that sometimes it seems more habit than anything, even though we mean it, sometimes I want you to know how much I really mean it. It was very sweet. I tried to post a picture from our wedding on here too, but when I scanned it the picture was too small. I might try again later. Hope everyone is having a great start to their school year!