This past Thursday Noah and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary.  This was actually the first anniversary we have had where we did not have some enormous drive to make!

1st – Drove to San Diego (5 hours)
2nd – Drove from Cedar City, UT to Lafayette, CO (the big move day 2 – 12 hours)
3rd – Drove from Diamond Lake, OR to Davis, CA to Oakland, CA (8 hours)

This was also the first anniversary we have spent alone in our house!  Although we moved into our house on our 2nd anniversary my family was here, so it wasn’t celebrated too much.  This year we celebrated by going to a quiet dinner and we still plan to go to the movies but haven’t yet.

Traditionally the gift for the 4th anniversary is fruit or flowers (I got neither).  The modern gift is an appliance.  Noah’s parents bought us a steam cleaner (vacuum), which qualifies for the modern gift.  It was also much appreciated as destructive Lava caused us to rent one from King Soopers twice within 2 weeks!  The gift I purchased for us qualifies, maybe, in the modern category too.  I purchased us a GPS unit.  Despite high gas prices we still like our road trips, plus Noah uses GPS (on his phone) daily for work.  So this purchase will pay for itself very fast!  It’s our new fun toy, of which one of my coworkers (when she saw me playing with it) said, “Nothing says love like a GPS”.  I tend to agree.  🙂

According to traditional gifts, the 5th anniversary is wood.  So, I’m really hoping I get my pretty hickory floors!  If not for next year, the modern gift for the 6th anniversary is also wood.  🙂