9th Anniversary

Wow - 9 years!  It just doesn't seem possible that Aaron and I married 9 years ago - it has zoomed by!  I feel so blessed to have married such a wonderful guy to have made and get to keep making so many great memories with!  Our road has been blessed with a lot of adventure - with the greatest adventure being learning to love each other better and more Christ like.   We fail, forgive and learn together and praise God that He helps us through this process! 

This year we left Autumn with my parents (the first time we've left her overnight in 2 years) and headed to Snowmass for a night.  It was relaxing and great to just hang out together.  We did a short hike and walked around the two Gondola bases - it is a cute, really new ski town.  After a really nice dinner at Venga Venga Mexican Grill, we drove over to where we backed packed for our third anniversary, got ice cream and then watched the Olympics.  On the way up to Snowmass we had fun recounting all our anniversaries and then at dinner we made a list of all the cool places we have gotten to see.  Counting our blessings and spoiledness! 

Anniversaries:
1st - date to Denver to science museum, Imax on coral reefs and then dinner at the Macaroni Grill
2nd - weekend in Manitu Springs
3rd - Backpacking near Snowmass, hiking to saddle between Snowmass and Capital Peaks
4th - Ferry to Vancouver Island with our bikes and night at a B&B
5th - Weekend in Puna, Big Island
6th - Weekend at a rustic cabin on Big Thompson River near Estes Park - I was 36 weeks pregnant
7th - my 10 year HS reunion, we celebrated with dinner when we got to Vegas at the beginning of our National Parks road trip
8th - Night at Waikoloa Village
9th - Night in Snowmass

Places we've been and things we've done together that are most memorable since being engaged -

New Zealand - skydiving and overnight kayak trip in Abel Tasman
New Hampshire work camp
Playa del Carmen, Mexico Honeymoon
Buying a house
Belize Workcamp 2 summers
New Zealand Christmas
Tara's undergrad and grad graduations
Genesis Team experience for Aaron
Starting travel OT assigments
Olympia - San Juan Islands, Olympic Mountains, Mt Rainer NP, St. Helens, Victoria
Long weekend in Malibu
Baltimore - DC, Science Center, New York weekend
Kona - Hawaiian island travel
Having Autumn
Portland Missions conference
National Parks Road trip - Zion, Death Valley, Tahoe, Lassen, Redwoods, Rainer, Yellowstone
Taking Autumn to Hawaii and Maui
Aaron starting his business
Living with the Watson's in Pullman
Farm family stay in Pullman
Getting to see Chad Christie and Eric each summer since Eric was born
Thailand/Myanmar - Phi Phi islands, Maya beach, Ao Nang, Riley Beach, Bagan
Moving back to Kona
Tara's triathlon
Family visiting - Aulani and Kauai