Just Charming.

Our anniversary weekend was most excellent.  It started off Saturday morning with coffee and yard work, two of my favorite things :)  While Vince and I worked in various areas of the yard, Bella went from the front to back yard doing her thing while Switzerland the watch cat followed her around.  Around noon, we took a break for lunch, and we all got cleaned up.  Vince and I did a bit more work before taking Bella to her grandparent's house for a sleepover.  We dropped Bella off, but not before having a celebratory mojito with Jamma on the back deck.  Bella put on a short tap performance while we sipped our drinks and enjoyed the beautiful weather.  Once home, we had a couple of Jaeger shots each to get the party started!  Although, all the yard work from earlier had caught up, and we decided to take a short nap before heading out to dinner... I woke up at 3 a.m. so looks like we were not going to make it to dinner.  That's right, we fell asleep at 7 p.m. on our anniversary and had one of the best nights sleep in a long time.  worth.it.

So when we woke up Sunday morning, we had some coffee, and then went to walk around our yard to discuss our next plans of attack.  We ended up digging up most of the Hostas from the front yard and moving them to the backyard for a natural border between our grass and natural area.  I also started the fire that we had set up the night before and it burned all day long.  Pap Pap and Jamma brought Bella home around 10:30 and she jumped right in to help with the yard work.  While Vince was digging holes for the hostas in the backyard, Bella was digging through the dirt in the wheelbarrow hunting for worms.  When she would find one, she would carefully pick it up and put it in her red bucket full of moist dirt that she was calling the worm motel :)  By the end of the day, she had found more than 20 worms, and being the gardening connoisseur that she is, released them into our vegetable garden just under the Catnip plant.  She had a blast hunting for worms, and is ready to do it some more this weekend <3  Once finished, we all got cleaned up and decided to have a late lunch at the Flying Biscuit.  Afterwards, we went to see Rio in 3D and it wasn't bad.  Very colorful, great musical numbers and pretty funny, plus Bella really liked it and I guess that's really what matters.  After dinner and bedtime, Vince and I watched another old James Bond movie before calling it a night.

It was a beautifully perfect anniversary.  A lovely way to celebrate a very special day <3