our anniversary getaway

this weekend we stayed at the little america hotel in slc and went to a fancy dinner at texas de brazil. it was the perfect way to celebrate our 2 year anniversary! 

before dinner we shopped a little at city creek. got some amazing bath bombs at lush and swooned over bedding at anthro. then we stuffed our faces. the food was so good guys. like, i am still dreaming of those fried bananas. 

after dinner we got some cheesecake to go from cheesecake factory and headed back to the hotel. carmel for the husband and key lime for me! {mmm, i wish i had some right now!} after we had dessert we put some chairs on our balcony and enjoyed the cool air while we talked. it was the best, i love those times with the hubs when we can just talk and talk forever. the rest of the night was spent just relaxing and it was the best!

saturday afternoon we went to my dads house to have a little family party with my grandparents who were in town from ca. it was so fun to see cousins, grandparents and my aunts/uncles! we love our family!

did you all have a good weekend? 

how we spent our anniversary day

 

after the husband got home from work we headed to the gateway for dinner at california pizza kitchen. they messed up our pizzas so we got a free one to take home {ssswwwweeeett!} we then indulged in the most amazing key lime pie ever! 

after food we decided to walk it off by strolling the gateway, which was empty. we stopped at the toy/candy store blickenstaff's. the husband loves that store so much! 

we ended our night by watching perks of being a wallflower and going to bed fairly early. holy cow that movie was soo good. i cried. have you seen it? this anniversary day was amazing and i loved it all. 

we are going away for a night this friday to really celebrate. i am so excited!!! 

two years.

it's seems like yesterday i put on that white dress, that is now hanging in our hall closet. 

finding daniel was the best thing that ever happened to me. i love that he works so hard for our family, i love that he has a big heart, i love that he loves children, i love that he knows how to make me laugh all the time, and i love that he loves me for me. 

i cannot believe it's been two years since that day we knelt across the alter in the sacramento lds temple and were sealed together for all eternity. two years down, an eternity to go!

i love you daniel. thank you for being the best husband ever! happy anniversary!

xoxo

 

{see our wedding photos here, our 1st anniversary here, and our 2nd anniversary shoot here.}

what two years has taught us

on the 12th we will celebrate our 2 year wedding anniversary. 2 years?? where is the time going? 

during the 1st year of marriage everything was so new and uncharted. we really had no idea what marriage would be like, we knew it was going to amazing and hard. there were lots of dinner fails, tears, learning, laughs, bicker fests, love, memories and just happiness. the 1st year was easy at times and so hard at others but, i loved it all.

we then jumped into our 2nd year of marriage. during the 2nd year things were more comfortable. we knew each others quirks, and such. we then started to toss around the idea of growing our family sometime during this 2nd year.

that leads into the one huge thing i have learned during this 2nd year of marriage. patience in all things is a must. not just in the whole having a baby thing, but in all things. in a marriage you need to have little patience. trust me, that is something that was hard for me to understand, i am not a patient person. one example of patience in our marriage is;

as bad as i want to add a little one to our family, i know with patience, faith, and trust in our heavenly father the time will come for us to be blessed to be parents. that leads into one last thing, something else i have learned is to be grateful for the time dan and i have together as just us. i will always cherish these times and love that we have had this time to really focus on our marriage.

i love being married to my best friend!