The Houtsma's Celebrate 5 Years of a Great Marriage

On June 1st Jason and I celebrated our 5th year anniversary. It was also the first time the both of us have been away from Bjorn since he was born. It is amazing how quickly you bond to your child...both of us had a hard time not thinking about him and hoping he was being good for his baby sitters.
Sean and Julie (Bjorn's first babysitters -pictured to the left...and some of our most favorite people and friends in the world) offered to watch him for us - which was wonderful. They were the best, so good to Bjorn and so good at helping us feel comfortable leaving him. Julie took him for a walk, they held him and fed him and little Lynna sang songs to him. When we got back Julie said he was "so sweet" and "happy".
Jason and I spent our time getting massages at the Crysalis - which was wonderful. Everytime I get a massage there I think of how wonderful it would be to get a massage once a month...maybe I will do that when we are making a mil a year. It is a great treat though.
After the massages we took Bjorn down to our wedding spot in the woods were we got married. We have made it a tradition to go down there every anniversary...we say our vows to eachother, talk about the past year of our marriage, take communion and thank God for eachother and what we have together. Every year we also pick one word that represents the past year. Over the past 4 years the words have been trust, gratitude, perserverance, and change. This year we chose new beginngings. With all the change that happened last year, this year we experienced the start of several new chapters in our lives - Mosaic community, my new position at the hospital, guitar instruction full time for Jason and of course our child! For Jason he felt like last year was a lot of upheaval and this year a settling into new things and a new phase of life.
After that we traveled up to White Rock B.C. to eat at my favorite restaurant - Cielo. I havent eaten there since before I was pregnant with Bjorn (several of my favorite things to eat there have goat cheese in them - which you arent suppose to eat when pregnant). It was so nice. We got a table on the patio overlooking the bay, it was sunny, warm, perfect. We got some quality time to talk about how we are doing, what suprised us about ourselves with Bjorn in our lives - good and bad. It was a nice time.

Thank you Sean and Julie for watching Bjorn! Thank you Jason for 5 AMAZING years...you are the best partner a girl could ask for!!!