anniversary recap

It's been one of those weekends that make me really dread Mondays!

We had a fabulous anniversary. Instead of spending lots of money going to a fancy hotel or anything like we had originally planned on, we stayed home so that I could be uncomfortable in bed...for free! (And, boy, was I ever?!?! Ben sadly commented this morning, "You were moving a lot last night! Uncomfortable, were we?")

We went to Tucano's Brazilian BBQ at the Gateway last night. It was entirely too yummy for words. I loved the raspberry Brazilian lemonade...the warm brown sugar pineapple...the melt-in-your-mouth top sirloin...the salad bar festival with all the fresh veggies one pregnant woman could crave...and the Brazilian cream for dessert. We both left with super full tummies and I think the baby enjoyed it, too, because I felt it moving ALL night!!
I made Ben set up the camera on the tripod before we left to get a shot of us on our 5th anniversary. (Note: I promise we did not plan on wearing matching colors. Really, I swear. I got dressed in one of my only remaining comfortably fitting maternity shirts and Ben put on his for-special-ocassions-only golfing polo shirt and when we met up in the family room ready to go, we both said, "We match!" We decided not to change because, hey, no one would notice, right? (Wrong! The waitress at dinner asked if we had just come from getting our pictures taken!!! Oh well!))

While he had the camera out, I had him take a full-length picture of my belly...just for posterity sakes. I kind of think I look like I'm tipping backwards.

Though we both said "no gifts" this year, Ben came home with the Willow Tree "Cherish" figurine of a pregnant woman. I cried.

I stuck to the "no gifts" but couldn't resist making a cute heart-shaped cake that I decorated in our wedding colors with "5 Years" written in frosting on the top. We were both too full to eat any when we got home, but I've since taken a nice slice or two out of the creation. Yum!
Since we both had made arrangements for church today because we had planned on not being there, we decided to sleep in and hang out in our jammies all day...quite reminiscent of the day after our wedding 5 years ago. We made breakfast/lunch/dinner of crepes and fresh fruit at 5pm and lounged on the couch watching everything from "The Bee Movie" to our DVR Saturday Night Live. I just realized I had a bunch of grading to conquer before tomorrow so, sadly, my carefree, relaxing weekend is now over.

I've got a BIG week this week with our first yearbook deadline (YIKES!) tomorrow. I shall probably be at the school until 9pm tomorrow. Joy.