Today...

[Smarra17]

Today is my 9 year anniversary and both Frank and I forgot...it just goes to show you what once was so important really isn't anymore. Don't get me wrong I love my husband and love being married but the celebrations are not that important anymore...besides we are going to be in Las Vegas in 5 days! Whohoo we can celebrate there.

[blackjack]

Congrats Sammi. My nine year was in August. We went out to dinner I think - no big deal here either. I figure next year we'll look at a weekend away or maybe a 4 night cruise.

:beer:

[DaveP]

Congratulations!

My ninth was in September. What did we do? Got to a casino!! (too bad it was only Foxwoods, and not Vegas)

[RamBill]

9 years...wow! Congratulations! By our ninth year we were down to having hallway sex - whenever we passed each other in the hallway we'd say F you to each other and then I'd go have a cigarette....... :haha:

[blackjack]

9 years...wow! Congratulations! By our ninth year we were down to having hallway sex - whenever we passed each other in the hallway we'd say F you to each other and then I'd go have a cigarette....... :haha:

Hallway sex huh... I guess I'm getting it more than I thought :evillaugh . Whatever happened to makeup sex? Now I apologize, she accepts or rejects it, and we fall asleep on the couch. I'm missing out on the makeup sex...

:D

[Smarra17]

Sex? I thought when you had kids the sex left until they turned 21 or were on vecation...at least that is what I have been told...wait I will be in Vegas for a week :wink2: . Maybe it gets easier when they reach 3?

[sin]

Congrats! Hubby and I celebrated #15 last month. We went out to dinner which is something we hadn't done for our anniversay since the second one! I figure as long as you get near the actual date, life is good!

[howzie]

Our ninth was in june, one month after we moved here.
My wife was very ill and confined to bed.
I played video games.

[Smarra17]

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes. There are a lot of 9 year anniversaries here. I guess great minds think alike. What was everyone's wedding song? Mine was Joshua Kadison's "Beautiful in my eyes". Seems like a long time ago now. I was young blond and in love now I am older, brunette and hopefully wiser but still in love.

[HoyaHeel]

We just had our 5th anniversary two weeks ago--and we actually went out for dinner, highly unusual for us--living in the boonies, we don't have a lot of options, we have to drive out of town. So usually we just save it for Vegas....

For wedding songs--hubby and I walked down the aisle to the theme from This Old House (actually a Fats Domino song) and our first dance was Feels Like Home (Bonnie Raitt version).

Sammi--I know you & Frank will live it up in Vegas so no worries about forgetting the anniversary.....But you might wanna see about having the date engraved in your rings, just in case;)

[Jimbucc]

I wish I could go back to 9. 29 coming up for me on the 13th of November. Vegas is calling. :drooling:

[Dougie]

Wow Sammi. I bet most here don't know who Jashua Kadison is. Good choice on the tune.

[Smarra17]

Hoya I don't think the dates in the ring would help Frank...he hates jewelry in any shape or form. Never wears it and there is nothing I can do about it. All that beautiful jewelry that he has over the years and I can never get him to even look at it.

Thanks Dougie the words to that song really hit home for us. It was the perfect song and still is. I still love it. I don't know if Frank remembers what we danced too but to me it is one of the best memories I have of our reception.

[HoyaHeel]

Sammi--how does he feel about tatoos??:wink2:

[Smarra17]

I will ask him again when we get to Vegas but I don't think that would fly...Maybe after a big win at the craps table?

[HoyaHeel]

This is how I see it--if it were really important that he and/or both of you remember the actual day you were married, one of you would have made comments ahead of time. I figured that out (even though hubby & I both have our wedding dates in our rings, sometimes it slips our minds) But if I expect anything, I have to give reminder "hints". This year, our fifth, the traditional gift is "wood". So I took a bunch of old casino players cards and made hubby a shadow box with them hanging in it he can put in our Vegas-themed game room. I also made dinner reservations and told him he could take me out as his gift:wink2: Everyone was happy....

Personally, I'd rather take winnings from a great night at the craps table and spend them in a spa or a nice restaurant, but then, I'm a pansy about pain and can't stand needles....Go figure, tatoos have never appealed to me:wiggle:

[Vegas Tonya]

Wow, many of you haven't reached the 10 year mark yet. Hubby and I celebrated our 13th in September (15 years together). We went to dinner and gambled a bit. The way to have a happy marriage in my book is seperate vacations at least once a year. ;)

Congrats to everyone that is celebrating!

[HoyaHeel]

Wow, many of you haven't reached the 10 year mark yet. Yep, we're babies;) Hubby and I were talking about our parents' anniversaries (I have several sets of parents--him, fortunately only one) We've got his parents at ~39-40 years (so we have a decade to save up for a really nice 50th present:wiggle: ) my father at 25 next year, then another dad at 13 this year (yippee--his longest marriage) then my mom will be at 5 in March--she got married right after I did.....I told my hubby before we got married that one of my goals was to reach a 50th anniversary, so he better take care of himself and live that long!!!

[Bobby]

then my mom will be at 5 in March--she got married right after I did.....

Sorry Hoya, but this sounds like a Jerry Springer show qoute.:D

BTW we are working on our 25th year of Bliss. I got lucky when I picked my mate.

[HoyaHeel]

Bobby--would it help if I said it was her 3rd marriage and she was 49 at the time?? She did get married in Vegas, gotta give her that!!!!

[Bobby]

No, no. No offense. It just sounded funny when I read it.;)

[HoyaHeel]

Nah, I wasn't offended. My family "tree" still confounds my mother-in-law and I've been explaining it to her for 8 years now. Before our rehearsal dinner, she wanted a list of my family that were coming (we did a pig pickin'--what fun!!) and their relationship to me. So I gave her one--somewhat tongue in cheek for some of the relationships--and she actually used MY descriptions on people's name tags. I was somewhat mortified until I had a few drinks!!! Thank goodness everyone in my family has a good sense of humor and most people get along, despite multiple divorces & remarriages....

[Bobby]

NOW that's sounds like it was a good wedding reception. I like people who can take a good ribbing.

[Vegas Tonya]

Yep, we're babies too ;).....Got married when I was 16 :wink2: So see, I am still 29. :wink2:

[sunni]

You guys are all babies....We just celebrated our 31....yup 31 years ....holy moly...did so in Atlantic City casino..

I personally think Mr. Pimp should share whatever the hell he is smoking today:wink2:

[biggestbooner]

30 for me next Valentine's Day. We are gonna do it right. 5 nights in the Bellagio with a lakeview room (we couldn't afford a honeymoon and I had just gotten my job here). And I'll bet we all think that WE have the best mate!! And that's just the way it should be. Congrats to all.