Nineteen Years

Last week was our 19th Anniversary!

Most times I still feel like that young college student,

twitterpated with that handsome, tall dude.

(Although, my body is beginning to tell me I'm not quite

so young!)

We have come to the point in our lives that we

can leave the boys over night.

For many years, that wasn't the case.

It seemed we always had a baby or young boys that

we couldn't leave.

Those were the days of babysistters,

creative dates or bringing the baby

with us.

The year we moved to PA, we were looking

at homes to buy, job interviewing

and celebrating our Anniversary all in one day.

We also had Timothy with us as he was a baby.

Memories are some of the things that keep

our marriage fun.

Often we'll just sit and chat about our early days

of marriage and the memories we've made.

Life was so new and exciting together!

This past weekend we had to drive Brendan

back out to camp.  The camp director asked

if he could come work again on this week as they

were low on staff workers.

Knowing the camp was "near" Lake Erie

(or we drive by it on our way) and knowing how

much I love swimming in lakes, my fella planned

our Anniversary getaway on the lake.

What fun!  Camping on the lake!  We both enjoy

camping.  Friday morning we left here early.

My fella found the back roads to camp.  It seemed to be in the

middle of no where!  but still fun!

We dropped Brendan off at camp and headed

to our camp site.

We had a rather large site.  Perfect for a family of 10

but the family only had two this time.

The tent was set up, coffee perked on the camp stove

and bathing suits gathered.

After our coffee was gone, we walked to the lake.

The water was choppy like the waves of the ocean

but the water was clean and fresh.

We swam some and headed back to our site.

Yatzee and Rummy were the games of the night by

lantern light.

The next morning was cloudy but warm.

After breakfast we grabbed our towels, suits and the rafts.

On the way to the camp ground the day before, 

we stopped and picked

up a few supplies.

I wanted to find an inner tube.  The store was sold out.

I saw swimming rafts for a dollar and grabbed two.

Childhood memories of hours of fun on the lake

with some rafts quickly flooded my mind.

What fun to make some more memories.

We walked to the lake and blew up our rafts.

Soon we were floating on the water,

side by side talking and laughing

together.

I'd jump off my raft, swim around feeling

like a dolphin and

get back on.

Soon we realized we had drifted way out.

The tiny blue spot on shore that was our beach bag

vanished from sight.

Jet ski drivers began to get their skis

on the water and were zipping by us,  creating waves for us to

float over. 

Soon it was time to be over.

Oh, how I dreaded that.

This, to me, is TOTAL enjoyment!  So peaceful,

so refreshing, so many memories!

We headed our rafts to land,  I gathered some

pretty rocks from the shore and we

packed up our things.

What a fun camping trip!

We plan to go back next year for our twentieth

but for longer stay and with the site filled

with 10 rowdy Philbricks!