Three Years.

In advance, I apologize for the lack of detail, pictures, and quite possibly grammar. As I type this, Claire is supposedly napping, and Aoife is pulling at my hair, clothes, keyboard, and otherwise squirming, and all I'm really thinking about is this wonderful, blessed Diet Coke sitting next to me, and when Aoife will also go down for a nap so I can empty the storage unit and organize everything and figure out what we'll be selling at the yard sale this weekend, and what we'll pack. I appreciate your patience with my current (Permanent) scatter brained state. 

It's amazing how quickly time flies. This last week we celebrated our 3rd anniversary. Not only did we get to celebrate three wonderful years together, this was our first anniversary that I wasn't pregnant!!

On our wedding day between the actual wedding and reception, Ross and I went to Olive Garden for some soup and salad, and then did a corn maze. It's been a fun tradition ever since, and each year we've added a little tag-along.

Our anniversary fell on a Wednesday this year. Wednesdays are typically family nights where Ross' siblings that are here in Utah come for dinner and games. Or study parties, since the three of them are taking a class together this semester. Ross' brother and sister graciously babysat for us so we could go out. Our original plan was foiled, so we ended up going to J-Dawgs, walking around a party store, going to our favorite park, and finally sipping on milkshakes at Sonic.

The next morning, Ross surprised me with a rose and a Redbox in the car. (I'm the driver in the family.) He also came home early so we could enjoy Cornbelly's as a family. It's been my favorite tradition/family outing since we've been in Utah. I will especially miss Cornbelly's and hope we can find something similar in Wisconsin.

First we did the corn maze, with Claire as our leader. Unfortunately she was more interested in finding rocks on the ground. We did hay rides, played in the Pumpkin Princess Playland, shared a sno-cone, went down a huge slide with potato sacks, picked out a pumpkin, went on all kinds of rides, watched the pig races, and I was finally able to ride the mechanical bull. Like I said, this was our first non-pregnant anniversary. It's been a dream of mine. No really. And it every bit exceeded my standards. It was SO FUN!!! I had a REALLY good ride and stayed on for a long time. The gentleman controlling the bull had to result to making the bull spin in a circle really fast to get me off. And I loved every second. We ended up staying there for a little over three hours, and could have spent even more time there, had it not been for bedtime.

And Friday came. The day we were waiting for! Ross' siblings, again, so graciously watched the girls for us. This time overnight. We began our weekend getaway with a trip to Scheels, the new sports store around the point of the mountain. It was HUGE. And amazing. They even have a ferris wheel in the middle of the store. We could have spent forever in there. Ross ended up getting a new pair of shoes, which he desperately needed. It's a really cool store.

Then we drove to Salt Lake where we would spend the rest of the weekend. We checked into the Anniversary Inn. We picked the Sun Valley Suite, which was a cozy cabin, with a 2 person jetted tub and waterfall shower. I was so much in awe of the room, we didn't do much for a while. We watched movies, enjoyed sitting in rocking chairs on the front porch, and eating cheese cake. It was a blast.

The next morning, we went to the Salt Lake temple to do a live session. It was an incredible way to start off the morning. That was another thing on my Utah bucket list. The session was amazing, and I learned a lot more from it being live. We changed in the car and then explored City Creek. We could have spent all day there. We were there for a long time, and didn't even see everything. I got a few new clothes, but it was just fun to be able to spend time with Ross without kiddos and just talk. After we took a trip up to the outlets at Park City.

After another shopping session, we drove back to good old Provo to the dollar theater. We hadn't seen Brave yet, and saw that the movie was at that theater! It was AMAZING!!! We arrived pretty early for the movie, so we sat in the car talking and enjoying cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, which was delicious by the way.

We even got home only a little after 8, and got to go to bed early. It was an amazing weekend and a great way to celebrate the last 3 years. With a big adventure ahead of us and so much going on, it was a nice break, but we're glad to be back and looking forward to many more adventures to come.