On June 5 my husband and I celebrated 14 years of marriage. It's hard to believe that we have been married that long! God blessed me with a wonderful, godly husband, and I'm so grateful that he likes me, too!

We celebrated by going out of town together for 2 nights. We stayed in a little bed and breakfast modeled after an English cottage-the owners are British, and even served tea in the afternoon. It was so fun to be together in such a beautiful setting...

The first night we went out to dinner at a very upscale restaurant recommended to us by the b&b owners. It is a California style restaurant, where the menu rotates regularly based on the availability of fresh, local ingredients. The food and service were wonderful-very chi-chi- as my friend would say. The next morning we had a delicious breakfast, and then went and visited a local winery (there are many to choose from). My husband tasted, and I smelled, and we had a great lunch. In fact, we did a lot of delicious eating on this trip.

Since we have been married, my husband has always gotten me two anniversary gifts each year. He bases his gifts on the suggested themes for contemporary and traditional anniversaries (like paper is a traditional gift for the first anniversary). I always love seeing how he makes the themes tangible....he invests tons of time into discovering something I would enjoy that matches the theme. This year the contemporary theme was gold, and the traditional theme was ivory. For gold, he chose me a beautiful necklace with two hearts interlaced for the charm. One heart is yellow gold, and the other is white gold. Ivory was a much more difficult theme...new ivory is illegal (it is from animal tusks), and much of the antique ivory available is made into little figurines that he thought were ugly. In his researching, he came across a product called Tagua, from South America. Tagua is a nut which is harvested, laid out in the sun to dry and harden for six months, and then is carved. It looks just like ivory, and is even marketed as the vegetable ivory. He chose a simple heart necklace out of tagua for me. In all his searching for ivory, before he discovered tagua, he was typing in different google searches for ways he could fill that theme. He typed in movies with ivory, and came up with A Room With A View, which was directed by James Ivory. This movie is one of my all time favorites, so when I opened up my "ivory package" not only was the necklace there, but the movie, too. It was delightful to be together just the two of us!