Five Years!!!

Wow, the past 5 years have flown! I can't believe Justin and I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary this week! It really hasn't seemed like it's been that long (which isn't really very long, but still...)

Since it was our 5 year (huge milestone!) I wanted it to be more of a big deal than some of our others. Even in the past we always reserve time without the kids for just us, but some years it's camping or a stay-cation. This year was so fun and we definitely enjoyed the short time together without the kids.

Monday night we took the kids down to their Grandma and Grandpa Ropelato's house. We knew they'd have fun there, especially playing with Ivy and Zaden each day! It was weird going to bed without checking on the kids first and even waking up on our own without Mya standing right there saying she wants breakfast. We slept in a little then went out for breakfast at Village Inn. I love going out to breakfast. It's just a small luxury to me that I don't get very often, but absolutely love it when I go. After breakfast, we hit a couple of stores and headed home to pack. After packing we stopped for dinner at Texas Roadhouse and then headed out for our relaxing night up at the Alaskan Inn.

We absolutely loved the Alaskan Inn. We stayed in the Totem room and I loved it. It seemed more of a normal room which was what I was looking for (not too decked out in their theme) and it had a King...definitely a requirement when I was looking at the rooms. We loved it. You could definitely tell you were in Utah! When you go in the room, it has an ice bucket with sparkling cider and the coffee maker had hot chocolate packets with it. The entire night was just relaxing and we woke up to breakfast delivered to us. We for sure want to go there again some other time.

When it was time to check out, we headed up to Logan....but decided to try the back roads/short cut from Huntsville. It cuts right through the mountains and is mostly dirt road, but it was a nice change and was cool driving through the mountains. We went to the temple, then went to lunch, then headed home.
I had Justin drive through Brigham City on the way home so we could check out the temple being built. It will be awesome when it's finished. Once home, we went and bought Justin a tree (one of his Father's Day gifts we just hadn't gone to pick out yet), then picked up the kids.

Since this was the day that was our actual anniversary, I made a nice dinner. I went to Don's Meats and got some LasVegas steaks, made garlic mashed potatoes, sauteed vegetables and then made a cake for dessert. It was seriously the best couple of days together!

Justin got me gorgeous flowers! I loved them. Have you heard of Love-Actually? I went there for my idea (wish I could say it was my original idea, but it's not) and ended up giving Justin the 5 senses gift. I love Justin so much and am so blessed to have him and him choose me forever! Love you lover!

4 Years!

Yesterday was our 4 year anniversary. It was such a fun weekend! In the past, we've always gone somewhere for our anniversary. First year was Logan, 2 year was Clear Creek, 3 year was Bear Lake, and this year was a stay-cation. We took Mya and Parker to Justin's parent's Sunday night for them to sleep over and we'd come get them Monday evening. It was so nice. We didn't know what to do, it was so quiet. We watched an entire movie Sunday night without any interruptions. Monday we woke up without being woken up by "MOOOMMMMM!" or Parker needing to be fed. We went to breakfast, went to the movies (saw Salt), went mini-golfing, did a little shopping and got ice cream. After that, we decided to drive down to Cabela's and we ended up having a late lunch down there. I loved that one-on-one time I got with Justin. For our anniversary the next day, I packed up the kids and we surprised Justin with lunch from Big Jim's (somewhere he really likes but hardly goes there anymore). Then after he was off work, we went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse and ended with a little shopping. It was seriously so nice and so needed!

I'm going to brag and say that I think I have such a great husband and a great marriage! There's so much good to say about Justin. I seriously love being married to him. I love that he honors his priesthood and has such a strong testimony in the church. I love how devoted he is to our family. He is such a great dad to Mya and Parker and Mya just adores him. Last night she saw my flowers Justin gave me for our anniversary and she said that it was her anniversary. I told her she won't have an anniversary until she's married. Then she told me that when she's married, she'll have an anniversary and her dad will buy her flowers. So cute!!! Justin is so good to me. He takes such good care of us and he's always making me laugh and making light of a situation. He amazes me with his witty comments sometimes...I'm not sure how he comes up with them so quick that sometimes, I won't have a come back. We have such a fun and good relationship. He's such a good example to me. He's always thinking of others and he brings a smile to everyone's face! I just love him a ton!