Tuesday February 21st marked 8 years of marriage for me and my hubby. Wow! I can’t believe it has been that long.  Each year we have gone on a trip for our anniversary. This year was no exception, and it was the first trip together without Luke. My parents where able to come in and stay with him at our house the whole time we were gone. It was such a blessing.

We went to Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was great! We didn’t have an agenda, we did a lot of relaxing and just did stuff when we felt like it. :)

We went antiquing and thrifting. We didn’t really buy since we carried on our luggage and didn’t have much room to spare. I did buy an old match holder, and David bought a vintage TIME magazine.

We walked around and saw some cool old buildings and doors. :) I have a thing for beautiful doors and often snap pictures and hang them in my house.

We of course made a stop in Anthropologie! I bought a super cute olive green and coral striped sweater. I am sure you will see it in the future. I also really want to do this in the picture above. My husband is not a fan of Chalkboards, so while I can get away with them in the play area or my work area, they are nixed in the main area of the house. So I think this roll of paper would be a good option to write fun stuff on.

We tried to eat at only places that where either unique to Albuquerque or places we don’t have in Chicagoland. We visited Holy Cow Burgers, Route 66 Malt Shop, The Burrito Co., Italiano Cucina Bravo, to name a few that where yummy.

We checked out some fun western wears in Old Town Albuquerque. I loved these blankets.

I didn’t buy it! But I would have bought Luke something with his name on it except everything I liked was gone. Oh well!

David was trying on lots of fun stuff. Although I think he could pull this off. We also tried on Minnetoka moccasins, super comfy.  :)

David made me do it! :) I made him too, but forgot to send that one to myself from his phone.

My Parents kept us updated on Luke’s fun at home. He had a blast!

My February 20th Coffee Date in Santa Fe. :) For my sister Heidi!

My new shoes from David for our anniversary. We keep the gifts simple if we do anything since we take our trips every year. I got him (still actually have to pick them out ;) a pair of gloves with the tech fingertips to text and use his phone in.

David considered taking a second wife. ;) lol!

We took the tram 2.7 miles to the top of Sandia Mountain where it was a -7 degree windchill. It was COLD.

Freezing!

But beautiful! It is so easy for me to see God in all this beauty.

We went out to a nice dinner our last night there. It was nice to get slightly dressed up and be adults. We need to do that more often.

We came home on our actual Anniversary since we had been away from Luke for 4 nights already. It was so good to see him. I couldn’t stop squeezing and kissing him. :)

It was such a blessing to get away and celebrate 8 years of marriage to an amazing man! Thank you David for being, loving, kind, selfless, funny, a wonderful provider, my best friend, and the love of my life!

 

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