Anniversaries and Fireplace Dilemmas

Ok you guys...
No sooner had I written that lovely, gushy post and we had a WWIII day yesterday. All about perspective, right? Thankfully God is chipping away at me little by little, and thankfully His graces are new every morning, because I do believe that everyone in this household needed new graces this morning. 
We did have a busy week trying to prepare for the fire marshall to come today. Yikes!
I was nervous....I don't like being judged, haha.
We spent our anniversary (8 years! Woo hoo!) trying to get the house ready. And the biggest project, installing our new fireplace doors, entailed a plan A, B and C. Luckily by plan C we got it to work, because there was no D option. Sheesh....
Plan A (cute optimistic happy face)

Plan B (uh oh, only one option left)

And finally, Plan C (a chorus of angels are singing)

It took our entire anniversary evening, on top of another evening to get this sucker in. But it's done, and it's beautiful, and it's SAFE, so we're happy.

And the hubs didn't forget about me even though we had to work and parent on our anniversary....

Why yes, that is a box of mac and cheese we made for dinner. You can't win 'em all. Even though this wasn't our most romantic of anniversaries, I felt loved and appreciated by my sweet flowers and a diet coke. He knows me. This is real life, and there's no one I would rather do life with.

So, now the inspection is done (nothing to have been nervous about, he was so super nice), the holidays are behind us, and we are one step closer to adding a sweet little one to the family. It's getting real. Cue the excited, anxious, nervous high fives. 

I think we'll take the weekend to rest and regroup, yay!