an anniversary

My husband and I got to go camping, just the two of us, this weekend, to celebrate our the fourth anniversary of our wedding. God blessed us, and gave us, all to ourselves, an entire live oak-covered hillside, all green and golden. If you can remember the forest where Boromir died, in the film version of the Lord of the Rings, you'll have an idea of what the mountains we were in looked like. On our trip we saw golden eagles and mountain blue jays, lizards and coyotes (the coyotes both wandering through our camp and loping unobtrusively past it). It was just glorious. Praise God for marriage, for marriage between me and this man in particular, and for parents who are generous enough to babysit their grandchildren for over 24 hours! :) Here's some pictures of our trip: