5 years.

We celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary a few days ago. We didn't want to spend a lot and a friend of ours offered to babysit all day AND night! We ended up not being able to leave them all night (I couldn't do it! I missed my babies) but it was an amazing day.

We first hiked to Bird Island Beach.

Doesn't he look so good in a backpack?

Repelling down

Caves

Bird Island behind us

The tide was too high to swim across to the island and the water was kind of rough so we just snorkeled around the beach. It was a lot of fun. We laughed about how wussy the waves felt when we were underneath them but when we'd catch a wave from above it'd send us flying! Suuuper fun. :-) We saw a new kind of fish that we haven't seen yet as well. 

Twisty Trees. It's so strange--these trees all grow into each other like a big web.

Coconut trees sprouting on their own.

Hot.

Bird Island Profile

After we got home and showered we went to a movie and actually liked it! (we're tough critics) For dinner we went to the 360 building. At the top they have a restaurant where the floor revolves (like the Space Needle). At first it made me really dizzy but after I got used to it it was fun to see the island from so high. 

8 stories up.

We spoiled ourselves.

I mentioned on the phone to the reservation line that it was our anniversary and they brought this ice cream cake out before we left. Love great service. :-)

Day to Night View

This is what I made Tim for his gift. We had always talked about doing something big for year 5. Traditionally wood gifts are given for this year and with our last name being Wood we thought about doing several things: building a wooden dining table together, getting wooden rings, etc. etc. But we didn't really want to do any of those here because it'd be a pain to send most of them home. Instead I made this embroidery of a tree stump. There are 5 lines for each year we've been married and the kids names are on the years they were born. I actually didn't quite finish (the kids misplaced my thread) but I'm quite proud of it. I didn't know how to embroider before and had to learn each stitch from how-tos online so I feel that a boo yah is in order. :-)

Tim bought me a super rad swimsuit and carved our initials in a beetle nut tree in our yard. I thought it was so sweet. I love walking outside everyday and seeing it. Seriously how could you NOT love this man?

I love you baby.