Celebrating our 7th!

This is my leader and co-adventurer through this crazy life! I sure love this man and am so grateful that God has given him to me! There is no one else I'd rather journey with than him!

And we just celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. After 2 nights of having live-in workers in our home, we were able to have an afternoon off without work going on in our home. Though living in the middle of remodeling, made making a romantic plan more challenging.

E&J agreed to watch Ethan and Elli for the afternoon and evening. We were excited to have some time alone to reconnect, but not even 10 minutes after returning from dropping the kids off, Bibi, Kaleen and Merona (from our homestay) showed up for lunch. Luckily I had spaghetti leftovers to warm up and share. For much of the time, they pestered Austin and I about hiring someone outside of the family to help us around the house.

After they left, we decided to flee the "remodeling mess" and take a drive. Here are some of the pictures from our drive to the border and back.

Familiar sites from Kansas; sunflowers and a combine at work harvesting wheat

We also ventured across the river to see some of the surrounding villages in our valley

Without the kids, truck time is great talk time for us. So it was fun to talk and dream as we explored together. The only thing missing . . . a 79c big pop from Quick Trip.

The day also included watching our wedding video, which was so fun to remember what a great celebration that day was!!! We finally had alert time to watch "Amazing Grace" which was a great film and then splurged with a dessert of blackberry crisp from the berries we brought from the capitol.

Even with the unexpected visitors for our lunch, it was all in all a great day! So here's to year 7!