Happy Tenth

I always knew that if I married Scott life would be full of surprises. And for the last 10 years I have never been disappointed! He has always gone above and beyond more then I could have imagined. He plans months and months in advance for these wonderful events and he never misses a thing.

Last Tuesday we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. I knew he had something planned for the weekend because he kept asking me to leave the weekend open. "Where could we be going?", I thought. "We don't have any money so I wonder if it's even over night somewhere?". All of these thoughts kept going through my mind. I knew Tuesday would be a normal day but the weekend would be great. So we celebrated Tuesday evening by going out with Awesome for some Mexican. Doesn't get better then that.

The next morning was a different story. Scott had left for work and Awesome was crying for a bottle. I got up and dragged myself to the kitchen when I noticed on the flat screen in the kitchen this video with a note from Scott telling me to push play....so I did!

After the video played another video started with him and Awesome on the screen. He explained that I needed to pack our bags and that we were flying out that afternoon to go to California. We were going to Disneyland and Awesome was coming with us. "Shut up, are you freaking serious...how the crap our we doing all of this", I didn't care, I was leaving town and on vacation no less!! California here we come!

Eight hours later and we're on our way to Cali!

The great thing about making a trip even better, having family you love who live in California and who want you to stay...and they'll even come hang out with you at Disneyland, show you around and hang out at the beach with you. Kristen and Glenn, you rock!

Max and Awesome playing

Kristen and Glenn at their home.Kristen whipping up a yummy dinner for us. It was so great to stay with them.The next morning we took a trip to see the Glass (Wayfarer's) Chapel down by the coast.

Later that day we left Awesome with Kristen and the boys and took off for Sony studios. We wanted to make the tour at 2:45 but missed it by ten minutes. Instead we waited for Glenn, who works for Sony animation, to get off work so he could show us around. Now that was cool and made up for our missed tour. Instead we got to see an inside look on what Sony animation is working on for next year. Hotel Transylvania is currently in the works and we got to see story boards, see the characters come to life, and visit with people who have done a lot of cool things for past animated films. I couldn't take a lot of pictures. Everything is very hush, hush. It was way awesome though. By the way, Glenn has won an Emmy and an Academy Award for the animation he's done. He's brilliant. It'll be fun to see more of his work!

Scott and Glenn in Glenn's office

Later that night Scott made up for the Mexican we had on our anniversary and took me out to a really fancy dinner. The restaurant was called the "Coast"...and it did, it sat right on the coast. Thanks again Kristen for watching Awesome.Disneyland here we come. The event we were looking forward to. A couple of Glenn animator friends and their families joined up with us. Glenn's friend Ben works for Pixar and got us all in for free or for a really low price. That is what made this work out so well. It was so awesome to have a group to hang out with. It made everything so easy.If you look closely you can see ScottWe're in the Park people.....Yippy!Our first ride, Space Mountain. Pirates of the Caribbean. This truly is the happiest place on earth. I know I was happy.Awesome's first set of Mickey ears.Awesome was a trooper. We were at the park from 7:00 am till midnight and he was a peach, all the kids were great. Even the grown-ups.

On the train. Awesome loved it.

Here we are at Toon town. Doesn't look like Scott quite fits.Our Rockin group.Scott loves the High School musicals. We had to stop and listen. Scott was so excited he started singing the songs. Glenn, Kristen, Max and JonasScott looked all day for this turkey leg and finally found it. It was pretty darn good.Our last ride of the day, Splash Mountain. I was in the front and got soaked. It was awesome though.Our last full day was spent catching up on sleep and spending time at the beach.

This is Glenn doing some skim boarding.Scott and Glenn doing some body surfing.

This year's anniversary was great. Not only was it a celebration of our wonderful marriage but of our beautiful son, our forever family. Now this is how living should be. I love you Scott. You make my world turn and you do it right!!!

p.s. I was kidding about the whole High School Musical thing. I thought I'd make that clear before Scott freaks out. :)