6 Years

Yesterday was mine and Jed's anniversary and we had a such a great time celebrating!  Jed got home from work and we headed out.  He surprised me by taking me to this shop in Orlando that sells flavored popcorn!  I love popcorn I have it almost every night before bed so I was pretty impressed by Jed's thoughtfulness.  I didnt even know a place like this exsisted until last night.  I picked out 3 different flavors to take home for later and we headed to dinner at Olive Garden.  After dinner Jed had one more surprise in mind but it involved more food so we needed a quick break so we wandered around Target for a while.  Once we were finally feeling like we werent stuffed we headed to Downtown Orlando for this:

The most delicious cakes I've ever tasted!  Other than when I spilled my coffee all over the table and my purse, it was a great night.  You might ask, "So what did Jed get for your anniversary?"  Thats a good question, I'll show you.

Jed likes to smoke a cigar or a pipe from time to time but hasnt had a pipe for a few years.  I picked this out for him and a couple of different flavors of tobacco. 

As soon as we got home last night he went out back and tested out his new pipe.  It smelled so good! 
At dinner as we were discussing our future we realized a couple of things that blew us away, first in another six years we'll have a 10 year old, an 8 year old and a 6 year old, HOLY COW!  Second if we kept having kids at the rate we have been then by our twelfth anniversary we would have 6 kids and I'd probably be pregnant with #7!  Again, HOLY COW!  Thats not our plan, I'm pretty content with the three I have right now but, it was just one of those things thats funny to think about.  Anyway, we're both really excited for the next 6 years as we work together to do whatever it is that God has planned for us! 
On a totally different note, yesterday during the day Evan pulled out his picture book and opened it to the animal page.  He went from animal to animal asking me what each one ate.  I was pretty honest with him, Camels, elephants, and zebras eat plants and grass while lion's, bears and snakes eat other animals like camels, elephants and zebras.  He was amazed.  Since we have black bears around our area (that sometimes wander around neighborhoods) and have found snakes in our backyard I explained to him that he needs to stay away from certain animals b/c they're dangerous.  After a few minutes of pondering what I told him this was our conversation.
Evan:  "Mom, dont worry, daddy will take care of the lion, I will take care of the alligator, Seth will take care of the bear and baby Kane will take care of the snake.  You and aunt Becky stay here."
Me: "What are you talking about Evan?" 
Evan: "Daddy is a boy, I'm a boy, Seth is a boy and Kane is a boy so we'll go take care of the animals....  dont worry we'll use tools."  (He started making a throwing gesture while grunting)   You're a girl and aunt Becky is a girl so you stay here.
Me: "Are you going to protect us?"
Evan: "Yes, we're going to go kill the bad animals with tools."
He spent the next 20-30 minutes planning and acting out what he would do.

Evan and his book of "good" and "bad" animals.