Weekend Wrapup...

As you saw in my most recent post, Darren and I have been married for 10 years now! Here's a little recap of our weekend, starting with our "anniversary trip" through this evening...

This is the fraternity house where we met. At the time (1996), it was the Alpha Kappa Lambda house. Now it is called Farmhouse.

This is us standing on the front steps of the house...where we spent most of the evening we first met. Thanks to Katie for reminding me that I actually met him while he was sitting in a second floor window at the top of a flight of stairs! We rang the doorbell and asked a bewildered-looking frat-boy to take this picture. They probably wondered what a couple of old people were doing standing on their doorstep!
Then we headed down Dickson Street to Jose's for lunch! This sign was on our table, and aside from it being cool that there is a sweet tea vodka...it reminded me of our Sweet Caroline!

Lunch! Blackened chicken nachos...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Here is the church where we were married...St. Raphael's Catholic Church. Except 10 years ago on March 13 there was over a FOOT of snow on the ground! So much for a nice spring wedding! Guess it wasn't technically spring, huh?
Here's a funny story...This is a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne that my dad gave us on our wedding day. He said it was expensive (about $100) and told us to save it for a special occasion. Well, 10 years passed, and we just hadn't drank it yet. So we swung by my parents house to get it. When my step-dad brought it to the car, Darren decided to look up on his Blackberry how much it was valued at today. (It's a 1990 vintage.) The site he looked at had it valued anywhere from $300-$700!!!! We decided we couldn't drink it...yet! We are waiting another 10 years to see what it gets up to!Here's where we had dinner. I ♥ Ruth's Chris! This is the 4th one we've been to.
Always perfection!

Here is my gift! Darren didn't actually get me a gift ON our anniversary. We went shopping the next morning and this is what we came away with! It's a green quartz. Now, I know that's not a super rare gem...but I love it because it's a nice cross between the blue of an aquamarine (March's birthstone...our wedding month) and the light green of a peridot (Caroline's birthstone). It is surrounded by white sapphires (my birthstone).
I absolutely love it...whether he picked it out or not! :)
Last night we went to Grammy and Pops' to pick up girly. Here she is with her little cousin, Hunter, from California. Their daddies were hoping for a little Pack-n-Play cagefight. Not so much!
This may be my favorite moment from this whole weekend, though...
Here's our Caddy-girl in her new "Jenny Jump Up"!
She doesn't really jump in it yet, but she definitely enjoys just hanging around.
We'll have to work in the jumping later!