On Saturday, Dan and I cleaned out our garage. Earlier in the week, the garage door broke, and we had to call a repair service to come and fix it. You know how sometimes you stop noticing how awful something looks because you see it all the time? That's how I had gotten about our garage, because I was used to kicking cardboard boxes and piles of unshelved tools out of the way to get to and from the car. But when I took the repairman in there, I kind of saw it for how messy it really was, and I was embarrassed to be taking anyone in there, even a total stranger who I will never see again. So that is how Dan ended up getting recruited to help me clean it up on Saturday afternoon. He was thrilled.

We had settled into separate tasks - Dan was putting tools away and I was sweeping, and at some point I looked up to see Dan nonchalantly wearing this on his head:

This is actually a Bumbo Seat that Kate has outgrown, but Dan decided it would make a good garage cleaning hat. He wore it for at least 20 minutes, which was plenty of time for me to go get the camera, for which he smiled AND made a ridiculous face even though he had to know that I was going to post the picture on the Internet. If he has hasn't learned that by now, it's not my fault.

On Saturday, we're celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary. Five years sounds like a long time, and since these last two years have brought us our first house and our first child, I could be feeling like we've reached this new, mature stage in our marriage and are now officially old married people. In a lot of ways that is true, because having a baby does change everything, just like everyone tells you it will, and we have grown up a lot as people and in our relationship with one another since we got married back in April of 2003. But pictures like this remind me that deep down, Dan is still the same goofy guy I married five years ago, and that makes me really happy, because I love that guy.

So now, a vote: Since Dan is standing in front of his Texas A&M flag in this picture, should I email it in for use in the Aggie alumni newsletter as an anniversary prank? And if I do, what should my joke caption be? I am thinking something along the lines of "In his spare time, Daniel Wachdorf, Class of 2002, serves as Omniscient Ruler of the Order of Alien Ambassadors, whose members wear special hats to identify themselves as translators for lost space aliens seeking directions from earthlings."

If only we lived in Roswell.