Working Wives & Bachelorettes: Has It Been Five Year's Already?

This past Friday, my hubby and I celebrated our five year wedding anniversary and it was one of the best days that we’ve had together in a long time. I really wanted to make the day special for him. Not only because it was our five year wedding anniversary (which I feel like these days, that’s a real accomplishment) but because things have been a little crazy for us over the last month. So this seemed like the perfect time to celebrate and I just wanted to celebrate us.
Here’s what we did…

First, my hubby woke up surrounded by five heart-shaped balloons and each balloon had one reason why I loved him attached to it. He just laughed and smiled because he knows that I love balloons just because I feel like you can’t help but laugh and smile when you see a balloon…right? Next we exchanged gifts. The gift he gave me was a really big deal. He gave me my engagement ring back which has been at the jewelers for the last seven months trying to be fixed…don’t ask. The important thing was that it was finished and back on my finger. My gift to him was a two-parter. I always like to give one “traditional” gift and for five years, the traditional gift is wood. So I went out and found a log and cleaned it up. I carved our initials in it with a heart around it just like you would in a tree. I then dug out a hole in the top to place a votive candle in it that was used at our wedding. It’s totally cheesy and corny but cheesy and corny is just who I am sometimes. The second part of my gift was a little adventure. We went to a new place that just opened called Copper Kettle Brewing Company. It’s located in Greenfield on Greenfield Avenue and we actually got to brew our own beer. It was such a neat experience and we had a blast. It really taught us so much about the beer making process and for two people that love beer as much as we do…this couldn’t have been a more perfect thing for us to do. We then get to go back in 14 days to bottle and label our beer so now we’re trying to come up with a clever name for our anniversary beer. Following the brewery, we went out for a nice dinner and then to a local bar to hang out and have a few drinks. We laughed and had great conversations. I felt so lucky and for the first time in a long time…I just felt like a normal couple, doing normal couple things. A lot of the time I just feel like our bar runs our life and that’s all we do and all we talk about.

So that was our anniversary day together. It was fun, relaxing and perfect and if you are looking for a really fun thing to do, definitely check out Copper Kettle Brewing Company. They don’t have a website yet but you can find them on Facebook or through their bar website which is Hough’s. And if you have any ideas on what we could name our brew, leave it in the comments section! Thanks for letting me share.