5th Anniversary!

It's hard to believe that Dustin and I have been married for 5 years! It seems like yesterday that we were engaged and trying to find our first jobs, yet at the same time, we've been through so much since we've been together. We have graduated college, bought 2 cars, moved 4 times, bought a house, got a dog, had Rachel, Dustin has gotten "promoted" to head band director, and I have almost completed my masters degree- all in 5 years.

To celebrate, we took a little vacation to Virginia Beach... I know, we both grew up next to the beach, but we had never done any of the "touristy" stuff. So we dropped Rachel and Zoe off at Mom and Dad Nieter's for a few days and stayed at the beach. (We took our bikes but didn't want to take them in the hotel, so we did go back and pick up/drop off the bikes and sneak a couple minutes in with Rachel)

We spent a couple mornings at the beach... it was really hot though, so we didn't stay too long. One evening we went on a dolphin cruise. The weather was perfect in the evening off shore a little ways. We saw a lot of dolphins, but they were pretty difficult to catch on camera.

If you look really closely, you can see a fin in the water. That was about all we managed to capture of the dolphins!

Here we are on the boat... it was a little windy!

We took another afternoon and went to MotorWorld and did some go kart racing and mini golf. I thought I had gotten a better picture of Dustin, but it didn't take :-( Oh well, he's in the green car, way ahead of me!

Sister Hazel had a concert here in Roanoke a few weeks ago, but we weren't able to go. Dustin was excited when we found out that there was a free concert while we were there. It was a great concert and despite the heat that night, we really enjoyed it!

I had been on the Spirit of Norfolk a couple times in high school, and really enjoyed it, and I wanted to take Dustin on it. We took an afternoon lunch cruise on our anniversary day! There was a buffet at the beginning of the cruise, then we were able to walk around while they gave some history and other facts about the area.

We traveled down to the end of the shipyard then back. There were 2 aircraft carriers in port.

Aren't we a cute couple!