Year Four - Fruit and Flowers

During our fourth year of marriage, Eric began his current job at Ann.e Arund.el Cou.nty Govern.men.t. He began his job with the county and two days after he started there, we had our first child. K entered our lives with screaming, yelling, and a big BANG and she didn’t stop the screaming and yelling for a few weeks. It was a rough period of time for us, but we made it.

On July 3rd, 2003 we celebrated four years of marriage by taking our little 8 month old daughter to Outback Steak house with us for dinner. Then we watched another James Bond movie after she went to bed.

Interestingly enough, my parents were out of town, so my cousin who had been living with them decided to live with us for 2 weeks. She was there with two friends on the night of our anniversary, but they were out quite late so we didn’t even see them. (Remember that Trisha?)

When my parents returned, they kept our little one for the night while we went downtown. We had dinner and caught a comedy act at The Improv. The comedian was hilarious! We laughed all night! Afterwards, we stayed at our own house. It felt great to be there without a child in the house to wake us in the morning.

The traditional gifts for year four are fruit and flowers. Eric bought me this beautiful set of Japanese floral dishes and a honeysuckle body wash. I still love these dishes!!!


I bought him a Hawaiian print shirt (because he had never owned one!!!) and made homemade Sangria to drink while we watched our movie that night. (Sangria has lots of fruit in it…hence the connection to fruit and flowers)