Catching Up: 3rd Anniversary

I can't believe it, but Ellen and I have been married for 3 years!  Being married to her makes me the happiest man alive, and I always try to show her that.  We always try to do something cool on an anniversary, and this year was no different.  I had the idea to create a "Choose Your Own Anniversary" anniversary, with the theme being famous movies.  I made a little surprise video for Ellen:

She chose painting pottery, which had the potential to be romantic and fun.  What it turned out to be was a maddening waste of money.  Why?  Let's just say neither one of us can paint a straight line.  Which is why I ended up painting a solid brown pencil holder and Ellen painted a white vase with one blue stripe.

We recovered from this catastrophe by having an amazing dinner at Lucques, whose chef was just nominated for an Outstanding Chef  James Beard Award. 

 We thought we'd set up the tripod and take a few pictures, too.  Wow, they turned out great.

We did all of this celebrating on the Saturday before our real anniversary, since on the actual date we would be in Alabama on our tornado relief trip (blog post coming soon).  While there wasn't much time to do any celebrating while we were in Bama, we were actually housed by our old church.  That means that on our anniversary at the exact time we would have been getting married, we got to go into the sanctuary where our ceremony was.  It felt good to be in the same place we were 3 years ago, with the same person, even happier now than we were then.

Marriage is awesome.