Five Wonderful Years!

Brian & I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary on Friday and we are absolutely in awe of our lives together in this short time. Most importantly - our two beautiful children that we have. Anyway, we decided to spend the evening in cooking and enjoying all that was important to us (each other, the kids & Zig). We did splurge though - we got 2 huge live lobsters from Joe Patti's Seafood in Pensacola. They were so big that one was 3 lbs and the other was 2.5 lbs - needless to say, we gorged ourselves! It was so yummy! OK... here is a glimpse into preparations in the kitchen for the evening.

Thomas was also "wowed" by their size!

"Don't get to close to me with those Daddy!!!!!"
He goes by "Jumbo Claw"! Gheez... his one claw alone must have weighed in at a 1lb!

Almost ready for dinner! Not only did I get to enjoy a glass of wine with my husband for the first time in months, we also had the lobsters, fresh asparagus, salad and cream o'crab soup! Yummy!

Our romantic dinner!

But then... the mess! Brian is an amazing cook (he does most of the coooking in our house), but oh lordy can he make a mess of the kitchen (I'm always on clean up duty).

I'm actually 1/2 way done cleaning the kitchen at this point - and it is still MESSY! Man... it was so worth it.