Lucky Seven

It seems crazy, but on Friday Bryan and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. It feels like just yesterday that we met on the drive to our interviews at Miami in 2002 and then had our beach wedding in 2004, although we certainly have accomplished a lot in 7 years! 2 beautiful kids, our 2nd house, a law degree, the cutest dog ever, and 2 great jobs later - we definitely have been blessed! To celebrate, we headed to Frederick to enjoy dinner at the chef's table at Volt. We made reservations in summer of 2010 after seeing the chef on Top Chef (he placed second behind his brother) and being told that December 30th (and everything before the following October!) was not available. So this past Friday we sat down to the most interesting, and expensive meal of our lives!



21 courses later we were ready to head home! Some of our favorite courses from the tasting menu?

Sashimi of kampachi, blood orange, ginger, nasturtium, sea beans


Halibut, butternut squash risotto, laughing bird farm shrimp, sea spear


Lobster, cauliflower, smoked golden raisin, vadouvan


Pimeland farm beef strip loin, hedgehog mushrooms, kohlrabi, cheddar, curly kale


Delicata squash, pear, walnut


We tried some things we've never had before and almost everything was great (beets are never good in our books, even when you make them in to a macaroon)! It was a lot of fun and we were glad we did it, although our wallets were a little sad! After our 3 hour dinner we headed home. As much as we wanted to stay out for the night, I was pretty sure my parents didn't want to be up with Kellen 3 times. Nor did I think setting an alarm three times to pump would be super romantic or relaxing! But getting away for 5 hours was nice and we really appreciate my parents watching the little ones and getting them to bed! They even put up with my screaming son as they defrosted more milk since the 6.5 ounces of milk I left was apparently no where near enough for my little piglet!

Here's to the beginning of another great year together!