Six Years

Yesterday marked six years that Jason and I have "officially" been together. On July 11, 2006 we had that awkward high school conversation (post high school) of what to call "us." We had been dating for months before that…just did not give the official title. I told him (jokingly) that I can't believe I have put up with him this long, but the truth is I can't believe he has put up with me haha.

To celebrate, I got this awesome idea off pinterest and tweaked it a little.

 The original idea was nerf guns, but then we would have to search for those silly little bullets and they were way more expensive than the water guns (walmart 2 pack $12).

For my Christmas Jason gave me this cute little picnic set, so I decided that we would have our watergun fight at the park and have a picnic afterwards.

Jason had camp from 7-9am and then an eye appointment at 10:30. I knew he would be home at about 9:20 and would leave for his appointment around 10:15, so I woke up at 8:30 and started planning. I thought that I would go to the store when he left for his appointment to pick up sandwich stuff and fruit for our picnic, but once I thought about how long it would take to drive to the store, shop, drive home, chop fruit, make sandwiches, pack it all up and get to the park before Jason got home would be very difficult. I decided to pick up Frittella instead because their eggplant parmesan was calling my name and I knew that Jason would never argue with lasagna.

I was expecting that Jason would leave the eye doctor at about 11:15 and be home around 11:30, but he called at 10:45 and said he was on his way home. I was not ready because Frittella does not open until 11, so I sent him to get drinks and a dessert and told him to take his time.

I put our Frittella in the picnic kit to keep it warm and hid it at the park for after our watergun war.

When I was hiding our picnic basket there was a man walking his dog that was looking at me like I was a wackjob…which I probably looked like one leaving a big blue bag on a park bench and carrying a watergun.

I saw Jason pulling in, so I sprinted around the trail to hide. It took him a while to come around the trail to where I was hiding, so I almost came out to look for him. I saw him coming so I waiting until he was a little ways from me and jumped out and shot him. Hindsight is 20/20…I, because I lack patience, jumped out while he was facing me rather than waiting until he passed and his back was toward me…we chased eachother around until our guns were out of water, then headed to the picnic basket.

I told Jason that I had planned to fill up water bottles to refill our guns, but we were already pretty out of breath and hungry, so it was the perfect amount!

Jason picked up McAlister's sweet tea and cookies for us to have with our lunch.

It did not take us long at all to completely demolish our lunch.

Unfortunately we did not use too much of the picnic kit, just the napkins and silverware. Maybe next time I will be better prepared to make our picnic...