Fifteen Years!

I'm playing catch up but Ben and I celebrated 15 years of marriage in August. That is a LONG time! Most days I am surprised we have lasted this long. We are BOTH strong willed, always right, opinionated, stubborn, and have to have the last word...so we don't exactly make it easy on each other. I feel like 15 years is a huge milestone. At this point, we have friends whose marriages have not survived and we are grateful that we have stuck it out. Hopefully, we won't do too much damage to Ethan and Caden ;-)

Our plan was for the two of us to take an all inclusive resort vacation on some island somewhere but in the end we decided to do something that the whole family could enjoy so we went to Disney, had the pool redone, and finished the basement...which definitely cost more than our vacation would have but we can all enjoy it for years to come. Ultimately, we went downtown for a night away. In one of our early years of marriage, we stayed at Peachtree Plaza on one of the upper floors that had a panoramic view of the city. We celebrated our anniversary there and had dinner at the Sundial, which is a rotating restaurant on the 72nd floor at the top of the cylindrical hotel.

The view from our room was amazing. We could see the CNN building, the huge downtown Ferris wheel, Centennial Olympic Park, Phillips Arena, the Georgia Dome, and everything in between.

The night view was just as spectacular.

From the Sundial, you could see the whole city since it continually rotated 360 degrees every hour.

Loved watching the sunset

It made it difficult to come back home the next day but I am so glad we were able to get a night away to celebrate us :-)

Here's to the next fifteen