Sunflowers have special meaning for Adam and I because during Adam’s proposal (which was an all day event) Adam would have a friend or co-worker come to my work dressed as a postman. This happened almost every hour for the entire day. And each time the postman came he or she would bring me a gift and a bouquet of sunflowers – so that by the end of the day my cubical was overflowing in sunflowers. Since then they have been one of my favorite flowers and we always let them grow wild someplace in our yard because they remind us of the love that we share.
So for our anniversary this year I decided I wanted to fill the cab of Adam’s truck completely in Sunflowers. And so that is exactly what I did. Last night as I was making Adam a card and writing him a love note Branson kept talking to me and asking me bazillions of questions. I finally stopped Brans and asked him if he could give me a few minutes so that I could finish up what I was doing and then I would listen to him. He then asked what I was doing and I told him It was a secret but that I was making a card for Adam – because it was our anniversary the next day. Branson was really excited I had let him in on the secret and promised not to tell Adam.
Since he was so good at sharing in my excitement, I also decided to show Brans what other mischief I’d been up to and lead him out to Adam’s truck to see the cab filled with sunflowers. He was really impressed and seemed even more excited for our big day. He even told me he would be a extra good the next day because it was our anniversary.
In addition to filling Adam’s cab with flowers I also got Adam a new and REAL wedding ring. Adam had broken his finger shortly before we were married and because his finger was so swollen we decided to wait to buy Adam his ring. However, shortly after we were married we discovered that Adam is HORRIBLE at keeping track of wedding rings and loses them frequently. So we just kept buying him cheapy ones and using those. I think in our 10 years together Adam has gone through 6 or 7. It is now something that we laugh at.
However, Adam had kept his current cheapy ring (purchased in China Town during our trip to New York several years ago) so I thought it was time to get Ad a REAL ring. An expensive ring and so when I saw a killer deal on rings on a deals blog I follow – I jumped on it and got Adam a NICE ring. I gave the ring to Ad on our 10 year anniversary cruise to Alaska back in July – but within a week or two of being home it came up lost. All I could do was laugh!
So I once again bought not one ring but TWO rings from the same store when they had another sale going on and now Adam should be set for awhile. I never thought I’d have to buy wedding rings in bulk but that just seems to be our lot in life. Bless our hearts. Below are some pics of the cab filled with sunflowers.
So back to the story about Branson. Well apparently Branson was so excited about our anniversary celebrations that he couldn’t stand to be away because at about 11:30 this morning (after Branson had been at school several hours), I got a call from him saying he had a fever and didn’t feel well. However, when I went to pick him up at school and felt his head he had a normal temperature and looked completely fine. He was even eating his lunch in the front office – which he NEVER does when he’s sick. He always loses his appetite when he doesn’t feel well and usually looks the part. So I pressed him more about his illness and his story changed that he actually had a headache – not a fever – even though he told me his teacher had sent him to the office because she felt his forehead and it was hot. I could sense something was amiss in his story though but decided to take him home anyway and watch him closely. On the way home it because clear to me though that Brans was NOT sick. He was his normal happy, loud, cheerful, talkative, teasing self and showed zero signs of a headache or any ailment for that matter.
So I asked him to sit down with me on the porch. I told him that I could tell that he wasn’t sick – and that I wanted him to tell me the truth about why he had called home. I asked if something had happened at school, if someone was mean to him, etc. But all seemed to be in order.
And then the truth came out. The reason Branson had faked sick??? Because he wanted to spend our anniversary WITH us. He didn’t want to miss out on us giving each other presents or seeing Adam’s reaction to getting my flowers or other fun anniversary things we’d do. Can you believe that?!
It TOTALLY cracked Adam and I up. So needless to say, Branson didn’t get in trouble because he told the truth in the end, but we did have a good talk about appropriate and inappropriate reasons for missing school.
In the end – we did allow Brans to come to our anniversary lunch with us at Arctic Circle – where we celebrated with our favorite Huckleberry shakes. We figured if Branson had gone to so much trouble to be with us – it must really mean a lot to him. So came with us he did. Sure will make a great story someday! And it sure made Adam and I feel special that Brans wanted to share our special day with us so much. How blessed we are to have these little ones in our lives. THEY are our GREATEST accomplishment of our last 10 years together.
We continued our anniversary celebrations later that evening by going and getting Pizza at Fat Jacks (our favorite local pizza place) and then took the kids to the Paysonn park to play soccer and catch. We saw our good friends the Hopkins while we were there and enjoyed catching up with them. Then we headed home to get kids ready for bed and homework done before our last big adventure of the night. GOING to a MOVIE. .We took the kids to the 7:30 showing of BRAVE which they loved. I really enjoyed it as well and it was fun to stay up late with the kids and do something spontaneous as a family.
So between our official 10 year anniversary trip to Alaska, Adam getting a new ring and getting his cab filled with flowers and a full day of fun…I’d say our anniversary was a success. I sure am lucky to have my Adam in my life and still feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be married to him.
I sure do love you Adam Clint Egbert! Thanks for a wonderful 10 years and for being such an amazing husband and father. Like the sunflower – you light up my life and brighten my days! I can’t wait to see what the rest of eternity has in store for us! Life is a road and I wanna keep going. Love is a river I want to keep flowing. Life is a road and a WONDERFUL journey. So glad I have you by my side for the journey babe!
I sure do love you!
Sarah Bearaboochie