Yesterday, Marcel and I spent the day celebrating 2 wonderful years of marriage! The day started perfectly was we both slept until 9am. The rest of the day was spent redeeming coupon after coupon ;) We didn't exchange gifts this year because we had already boughten ourselves a new bedset, which was needed very badly. Plus it fit in with the 2nd year = cotton anniversary. We've followed that tradition both years now and I hope we continue it in the future.
We started at Jared's to get our rings cleaned. What better thing could you do on an anniversary than to add a little sparkle to your ring :)
We then headed to TGI Friday's to redeem a free appetizer coupon. Next on the agenda was clothes shopping for MaryBeth with some money she earned for completing online surveys. 2 pairs of jeans and 1 pair of shorts for $7.00 (the 2 jeans came to a grand total of $1.21!). That's the best type of shopping: when you get new stuff cheaper than you could buy at Goodwill. We went right down the road to Macaroni Grill for our free dessert. We had a coupon emailed to us since it was our anniversary, how sweet of them!
Then we were off to Wahooz! for a round of mini golf that we got BOGO. It wasn't until the 10th hole that I told Marcel I was out to win, which turned out to be a big mistake. I had been beating him until that point, and then he ended up winning.
We headed home to watch 1 of our redbox rentals, The Other Woman, which was a very sad movie. After that we headed to our local TGI Friday's and ordered a basket of fries and redeemed our last coupon of the day for another free dessert. We both highly recommend their new Oreo dessert, but only if you have a coupon because it is a huge rip-off if you have to pay the regular price of $5.59. It wasn't until this stop in our day that Marcel asked if I had taken a before picture of all the coupons we were going to redeem. I LOVE that he is more than happy to have our day revolve around what coupons we have. It was also here that we decided we're going to strive to spend $10 per year of marriage on our anniversary activities each year. We'll see how that goes, but we were under our $20 budget for this year!
We finished the next with another redbox, Unstoppable, which was really good and kept me on the edge of my seat. But as I've posted before I could watch Denzel Washington all day long, as long as I'm cuddled up to my own good looking black man :)
We spent time in bed before drifting off to sleep talking about this upcoming year. The things we hope to accomplish, both individually and together, things we are looking forward to and, in order to keep strengthening our marriage, the areas we think we can be improving on.
All in all, it was a very low-key day, but turned out perfectly for us. After the busyness of Marcel finishing up student teaching, school, etc, it was nice to have one complete day with no distractions or interruptions. We're so lucky to have each other!
