the beginning of year four (and the celebrating of the first three)

So we have a lot of catching up to do.  As in, I wrote a post about our anniversary, but then didn't add pictures or post it, so I'll post that now.  And then I have a thanksgiving post.  So looks like you'll see what our thanksgiving was like when it is about Christmas time.  Hopefully, I'll post that tomorrow.  But no promises.  I can be quite the slacker when it comes to digital communication.  Anyway - here's the belated anniversary post:

What a sweet guy, that Aaron is.

For our anniversary - Aaron took me out to two dinners.  One a couple of weekends ago when instead of going outside of the city for a day hike (aaron's knee was inflamed from a run) we went to the Tony Roma's in the city.  Nice treat - especially for Aaron to get to have both steak AND ribs.  I'm not sure he's had either one of those things for a year.

Then last night (November 22nd - I wrote this blog a while ago, don't forget) on our actual anniversary, Aaron surprised me by taking me to a recently opened Italian restaurant in our city.  Apparently it's a chain from Hong Kong - with restaurants in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and the Philippines.  The restaurant was AMAZING.  I had a salad with pears, goat cheese, and candied walnuts on mixed greens.  What??  When did those things come to China?  I also had a margherita pizza, and Aaron had a chicken cooked in a mushroom sauce served over polenta, with asparagus.  To those of you living in the US this restaurant may not be that impressive, though I actually think it would be a nice restaurant in America, as well.  But I realize that you would probably not get as excited as I did when after we finished the basket of bread they gave us, they REFILLED it.  Amazing.  And then they refilled it a second time.  We finally told her we didn't need any more bread, though I think we could have sat there all night and just ate that bread.  Needless to say, a lot of bread was consumed.

Aaron surprised me with a Christmas tree for our anniversary.  Since the beginning of October I have been talking nonstop about wanting to get a fake Christmas tree (since they don't sell the real ones here) and wondering where I could get them.  I would text Aaron every time I found one.  Unbeknownst to me, he had been planning on buying me one this whole time.

Man, what a great husband.  I'm so thankful for him.