Cotton Anniversary

As most of you know, Cody and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary last week. We had previously decided, for gifts for each other on our anniversaries, we would exchange traditional gifts according to the number of years we have been married. This year is our "cotton" anniversary.

I took the cotton theme very literally, since Cody is from West Texas. (His grandmother on his dad's side picked cotton, and his grandfather on his mother's side used to run a cotton gin.) I thought since his family has so much history involving cotton, and he is so proud to be a West Texan, I would try to find some artwork that involved the two. After a few days of searching the web, I came across a photographer whose daughter is a sophomore at Texas Tech, so he has just recently begun photographing West Texas. On his website, I came across this picture. (Ty, you would appreciate it... it was taken just outside of Snyder!) It drew my attention, due to the combination of the old and new windmills. I love the colors in the clouds, and the vegetation (i.e. cotton) in picture. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was what I wanted to get Cody. I thought it would be perfect for him to hang in his office.

I was anxious to give Cody his present. I knew I liked the picture, but I didn't know if he would like it as much as I did. I was also excited because I felt I had gotten something completely unexpected, and my gift was definitely going to outshine his in the creativity department. :)

I was wrong! Cody won! Cody completely out shined my present and got something unexpected and way more exciting than my picture. For my present he handed me a cotton dinner napkin, and a card. The card read, "we are going to Chicago for the weekend. We have reservations to go to dinner Saturday night at Gibson's Steakhouse." (hence the dinner napkin.)

We had such a great time on our weekend getaway! The weather was absolutely perfect! It was a 88 degrees with a cool breeze blowing in from the lake! :)

Here are a few pictures from our trip:

We stayed at the Intercontinental Chicago, on Michigan Avenue.

The Magnificent Mile.

We went to Taste of Chicago. (The food was delicious! Our favorite was the Chicago Pizza.)

We walked through Millienium Park.

Buckingham Fountain.

We went to the Field Musuem. Real Pirates was the featured exibit, so we had to take a few Texas Tech pictures for Coach Leach.

Gibson's Steakhouse

Thanks again, Cody! The trip was perfect!