our 4th anniversary

while in hilton head, tom and i celebrated our fourth anniversary by going out to dinner alone thanks to some free babysitting by nana! we went to red fish and it was most excellent. this restaurant would typically be waaaaaaaaay out of our budget, but a while back, several families in our church decided to bless each of the pastors and their wives with some date money and tom and i managed to hold on to ours until now. tom enjoyed a huge 16 oz. sirloin while i gorged myself on an equally huge pork chop with brandywine apple chutney, fresh asparagus, and mashed potatoes...yum, yum! after that, we took a short moonlight stroll on the beach (awwwwwww) before heading back to reality and a midnight feeding for asher : no lovey-dovey sentiments for this past year, just a whole bunch of thankfulness that we survived it. it was a very rough year considering we've moved twice (in the same metro area) and tom has served at two different churches (yea PBF!). however, the birth of our second happy, healthy son has been the biggest reason for thanks thus far. we're looking forward to what year #5 has in store!