5 year Anniversary/Easter Weekend!

We've been married five years!  Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday but most of the time it feels like it's been forever.  Jesus and I just fit.  We need each other.  I need him to push me out of my comfort zone, to make me take chances and to give me someone to rely on besides myself.  I need  him to teach me how to take a joke and understand sarcasm without being offended.   Jesus needs me to calm him down, to teach him that even if he grew up being loud culturally, he still needs to be sweet.  He needs me to let him know that not every leap of faith is worth taking.  He needs me to make him laugh after a stressful day of work. (We do that for each other).  He needs me to help take care of our babies that keep us both exhausted but full of joy.  Jesus and I are so opposite in so many ways but we're also so complimentary.  I can't explain how well he fits into my life and how I can be myself around him.  I mean the self I am around my family, that's who I can be around Jesus!  Everyone's a little bit crazy but Jesus is just the person to handle my crazy when it comes out.  As well as my anxieties and short comings.  I don't think I've ever met someone as forgiving as my husband.  Well...my mom...so maybe that's a reason I love Jesus so much because he forgives like she does.  I could go on but let's cut to the five year celebration!

We knew we wanted to do "something."  Like more than just go to dinner something.  So we bought seasons passes to Six Flags Over Texas which is just thirty minutes from where we live! Our first use was to celebrate our anniversary kid-free.  Two thirty-somethings riding the roller coasters.  What a fun day!  And scary...and sickening...but hey, we did it!

This ride is cray cray!  While going upside down those two loops, there's no shoulder harness, just a seatbelt and lap bar.  How can you upside down like that?!  Somehow the gravity pushes you down so much that it had me hunched over and I couldn't even push myself back up while in the loop!  That centrifugal force had me!  It gets better. Jesus went on the ride with virtual reality glasses so he could not see what was coming next except for the mimicking actions inside his glasses. He was a fighter pilot, shooting things and falling from buildings.  So intense and one of the first of its' kind!  My motion sickness was on its' last leg so I rode glasses free and that was still intense.

 

Mr. Freeze is another intense coaster that shoots you up the roller coaster track backwards at high speeds around a loop  and turns until you go backwards straight up a 180 degree angle, all to come rolling back down (but now forwards) the 180 degree hill and over the turns and loop one more time.

The next day was Easter and we celebrated with Jesus' cousins in McKinney.  Ligia made an amazing traditional dinner with ham and pineapple, cheesy sour cream potatoes and mini bundt cakes from "Nothing bundt cakes" bakery!  That place is surprising delicious.  After dinner, we sent the kids through the yard for the Easter egg hunt.  My family and sister-in-law's family, have always done an Easter egg hunt and I really missed not being with them this year. So to get to do it still, especially with my own little kids, made my day!