The GOOD

Yesterday we celebrated our 4th anniversary. We got married on April 20th, 2002, and it was the best day (weekend, actually) of our lives, until Amelie was born.





God spoils us. We don't know why... Our first three anniversary dinners were free for one reason or another. This year tops them all:

We started the day at OCB for lunch (the only thing we paid for) with Chris' dad and step-mom. It was a good filling lunch. After that, we came back to Burnsville for our chiropractor appointment and to pack our bags for the rest of the night. During the last year, Chris won/earned some gift certificates that shaped our plans for our entire celebration. The first was a free night's stay at the St Paul Hotel. When we got there, they overheard that it was our anniversary, so they upgraded us to a better room - the Ambassador Suite. It was a double room, with a full living room (perfect for Amelie to nap in one room while we hang out in the other). Here are some pics of it (they don't do it justice):






It was Amelie's first time in a hotel. We set the bar high for her... if we ever take her to a Motel 6, she'll think we hate her.



Chris' mom came to the hotel to hold Amelie and walk her around the hotel while we ate dinner in our room (we decided against going to the restaurant and getting a sitter). Our dinner was from Kincaid's, complements of another gift certificate. Long story short: our dinners weren't right, so we called Kincaid's and told them. They delivered the replacement food to our room, and even threw in a bottle of champagne to make up for messing up the order. For dessert we had a super-duper German chocolate cake that we got from Cafe Latte (covered by a gift certificate). Ooo, did Amelie want some of that!


Later, our friend Cerah came over to hold Amelie some more while we hung out alone for a bit. Amelie gave us the wonderful gift of 6 hours in a row of sleep. Thank you, baby.

In the morning, we ordered room service breakfast (thanks to yet another gift certificate). It was great, I won't bore you with the details. Upon checkout, we were expecting to pay $1 for our phonecall, but they took care of it for us. How nice.

So God really hooked us up this year, and we just can't figure out why He's so good to us.