Happy Anniversary!!!

Ramiro and I are celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary today! How in the world has it been 11 years? Where has the time gone? I can remember hearing couples talk about being married ten or more years and thinking, "Man, they've been married FOREVER!" Suddenly, ten years seems like a baby step! My parents, on the other hand, have been married for 45 years!! Can you imagine? I've decided that 45 years will officially be my new "forever"....only 34 years to go!

Let me start by saying that Ramiro and I aren't big "gifters", and we typically don't buy each other a lot of presents. Just being together has always been enough, considering deployments have kept us apart on more anniversaries than not. So it was no surprise to either one of us when we decided to keep it simple and not do gifts this year. After all, my surgery squashed our original plan to spend the day in Venice. And let's be honest, what's more romantic than a day in Venice to celebrate an anniversary....am I right? (Don't worry, we'll still make that trip!) Well, regardless of our spoken intentions, we both ended up getting a little something for each other. The funny part is that we got each other the exact same gift....a fragrance. And not just any fragrance....the EXACT same fragrance! We both chose euphoria: by Calvin Klein. (euphoria original for him and euphoria blossom for me....very nice fragrances if you're looking for one.) We sat and laughed as we looked at the boxes....what are the chances? There were literally hundreds of fragrances to choose from, and we chose the exact same one. Hmmm, maybe it's a sign. Forty five years? Looks like the odds are in our favor. :)