10 years!! It's really hard to believe... that I haven't killed Geoff yet. Every time someone asks us how long that we've been married Geoff will tell them and then say, "It feels like 5 minutes... (pause so they can say-awh) under water! Gets 'em every time. Real comedian that one! All kidding aside, 10 years is a long time to be married and because we didn't have the chance to celebrate in July (our actual anniversary) I planned a secret getaway for us - with the help of several of my friends! Lolly and PJ offered to watch the kiddos but because they have two little foster kids now I thought it might be too much to have all four of mine. So, the two older girls each got to spend the night with a friend and Lolly and PJ stayed at our house to watch Asher and Andyn. I spent a little over a week researching things to do in Dallas and a couple of surrounding areas and decided on a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater for Friday night. I reserved a hotel room and had plans the next day to go to the temple, a fun place to eat lunch and hit IKEA in Frisco on the way back home. I picked Geoff up at work on Friday afternoon. He had no idea what we were doing. I even packed a bag for him and brought it with me. I told him I had a baby-sitter and we were going on a date. We started driving and once we had been driving about an hour he said "I thought we were just going to catch a movie?" I said "We are... kind of." The dinner theater was at this fabulous resort in Grapevine, TX and we had a great time!!! Before we went into the restaurant there was a gentleman sitting on a bench and he was spray painted gold. If you put money in his pocket he would nod his head and say thank you other than that he didn't budge. The dinner theater was a lot of fun but the food was below par. This was a little disappointing since I paid a lot of money for the tickets! The show was great and the couple we sat with were really sweet and fun! I have posted some pics of the show. One of the characters (snake eyes something) was really a hoot. When I asked him to take a picture of us he turned the camera around and took a picture of himself. He was really funny. As we were leaving Geoff asked me if I wanted him to drive home because it was late and we had a long drive home. I said to him, "Well, that's the other part of my surprise. We're not going home!" It was so fun to see the glee in his eyes! So... fast forward... Saturday we went to the temple only to realize that I had forgotten my temple recommend. We hung out on temple grounds for a while and then went to the bookstore. I told him that there was this really fun looking restaurant that I wanted to take him to where they would actually cut off your tie if you wore one in so we looked it up and drove to it only to be a little frightened as we approached. Across the street was a store that was called Condom Sense (draw your own conclusions). Down the street was a Cabaret. And two of the buildings next to the restaurant looked condemned! It was suppose to just be this fun little steak house!! We left. We just headed to Frisco and decided we would try to find something to eat there. We each had a hot dog from IKEA - real fancy! On our way out to McKinney we stopped at a movie theater and watched The Bourne Ultimatum. Then drove on to McKinney and ate at The Genghis Grill. Super yummy Mongolian style grill. Then we of course had to top it off with some frozen custard from Culver's! We stopped in Sherman because I cannot go there without stopping in at Target and that is when the life force seemed to sucked out of Geoff. What is it with men and shopping? I swear we weren't in there for a whole 3 minutes and before he started to slouch and talk about how tired he was and how bad his feet hurt!! Wimp! Anyway, we had a great time and are eternally grateful to our friends for watching our kids so that we could actually spend some time together. It's really hard when you don't live very close to family. Friends are all you have.
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9/13/2007
Celebrating 10 Years
10 years!! It's really hard to believe... that I haven't killed Geoff yet. Every time someone asks us how long that we've been married Geoff will tell them and then say, "It feels like 5 minutes... (pause so they can say-awh) under water! Gets 'em every time. Real comedian that one! All kidding aside, 10 years is a long time to be married and because we didn't have the chance to celebrate in July (our actual anniversary) I planned a secret getaway for us - with the help of several of my friends! Lolly and PJ offered to watch the kiddos but because they have two little foster kids now I thought it might be too much to have all four of mine. So, the two older girls each got to spend the night with a friend and Lolly and PJ stayed at our house to watch Asher and Andyn. I spent a little over a week researching things to do in Dallas and a couple of surrounding areas and decided on a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater for Friday night. I reserved a hotel room and had plans the next day to go to the temple, a fun place to eat lunch and hit IKEA in Frisco on the way back home. I picked Geoff up at work on Friday afternoon. He had no idea what we were doing. I even packed a bag for him and brought it with me. I told him I had a baby-sitter and we were going on a date. We started driving and once we had been driving about an hour he said "I thought we were just going to catch a movie?" I said "We are... kind of." The dinner theater was at this fabulous resort in Grapevine, TX and we had a great time!!! Before we went into the restaurant there was a gentleman sitting on a bench and he was spray painted gold. If you put money in his pocket he would nod his head and say thank you other than that he didn't budge. The dinner theater was a lot of fun but the food was below par. This was a little disappointing since I paid a lot of money for the tickets! The show was great and the couple we sat with were really sweet and fun! I have posted some pics of the show. One of the characters (snake eyes something) was really a hoot. When I asked him to take a picture of us he turned the camera around and took a picture of himself. He was really funny. As we were leaving Geoff asked me if I wanted him to drive home because it was late and we had a long drive home. I said to him, "Well, that's the other part of my surprise. We're not going home!" It was so fun to see the glee in his eyes! So... fast forward... Saturday we went to the temple only to realize that I had forgotten my temple recommend. We hung out on temple grounds for a while and then went to the bookstore. I told him that there was this really fun looking restaurant that I wanted to take him to where they would actually cut off your tie if you wore one in so we looked it up and drove to it only to be a little frightened as we approached. Across the street was a store that was called Condom Sense (draw your own conclusions). Down the street was a Cabaret. And two of the buildings next to the restaurant looked condemned! It was suppose to just be this fun little steak house!! We left. We just headed to Frisco and decided we would try to find something to eat there. We each had a hot dog from IKEA - real fancy! On our way out to McKinney we stopped at a movie theater and watched The Bourne Ultimatum. Then drove on to McKinney and ate at The Genghis Grill. Super yummy Mongolian style grill. Then we of course had to top it off with some frozen custard from Culver's! We stopped in Sherman because I cannot go there without stopping in at Target and that is when the life force seemed to sucked out of Geoff. What is it with men and shopping? I swear we weren't in there for a whole 3 minutes and before he started to slouch and talk about how tired he was and how bad his feet hurt!! Wimp! Anyway, we had a great time and are eternally grateful to our friends for watching our kids so that we could actually spend some time together. It's really hard when you don't live very close to family. Friends are all you have.
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What's with this fast forward bizness? I want full details...!
What a great surprise!
10 years and there is still spontaneity in your marriage? How does that work? Just kidding! What a lucky man he is :).
I am a lucky man. 10 years of marriage really can change you, and our relationship looks a lot different than it did 10 years ago. And the "three R's" can really interfere with spontanity (the "three R's" are resposibility, routine, and revenge...well, hopefully not so much revenge). But just because the fun and spontanity are slumbering doesn't mean they are dead! All those special feelings I had for Steph were right there below the surface, and it didn't take much for them to come to the surface! Just a little time to ourselves, and a little kindness, and some planning (and also some money, but our weekend was worth every penny!!!). I love you, Steph!
- Geoff
I'm glad you guys got to get away! It's soo hard to get away with the kids and all..!! Glad you got to do it!!
I thought I had posted on this back when you posted it, but I guess not. Congrats for making it this far without having the life force sucked out of geoff when you go to a Target. That is a real accomplishment to go shopping with your...oh...wait. That does happen. Well, congrats anyway!! love ya!
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