Our 5th Anniversary!!

This post is super late but it's not completely my fault...our internet provider is not very good AT ALL so our internet service is very unreliable. One minute we have access to the internet, the next we do not. It's getting to be pretty frustrating but there's not anything we can do about it so we'll just have to live with it. I think we can do that. ;)

Dave and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on the 12th! My parents came over to watch the kids so we could go out. We decided to try a new restaurant and go see a movie.


We went to Brio for dinner, it was a very nice restaurant and the food was yummy! Neither of us eat seafood, me because I've never really tried and it and it just doesn't seem appetizing to me (well it didn't, I'm getting more open to it now), and Dave because he ate it some growing up and wasn't a big fan so he just convinced himself that he didn't like any of it. Well, we both decided to try something that we normally wouldn't order. I ordered beef medallions with shrimp scampi:



I loved the tournedos (beef) but I wasn't a fan of the shrimp at all. The texture was just gross to me. The orzo and veggies were really good, though! And Dave liked the shrimp!

Dave ordered the shrimp and lobster fettuccine. He loved it. I took a bite of his and I really liked the lobster. I'll definitely be trying more of that in the future.


Last year on our anniversary Ashlynn was only 4 days old and still in the NICU so we didn't celebrate our anniversary at all. I was staying in an extra room at the hospital because I didn't want to leave without Ashlynn and they told me on had to leave on that day so I was super sad. I think they ended up letting me stay until the 13th...but enough of that! We didn't exchange gifts or anything last year because there was so much going on so Dave wanted to make up for that. He follows the list of traditional and modern anniversary gifts that you are supposed to get by year so he didn't want to skip the 4th year. And I decided I have to write in the blog what he gets me every year because we both forgot what he got me for our 2nd anniversary. :( For the 2nd year it's either cotton or china and we know it wasn't china so he must have gotten me a shirt or something. I wish we could remember!!

Anyway, the 4th anniversary gift is supposed to be (according to the list) linen or appliances so he got me this apron.


I LOVE it, it's so cute!!!

And the 5th anniversary gift is supposed to be wood or silverware. So he surprised me with this wooden plaque. ♥


I love, love, LOVE it!! We saw them at the San Diego fair last year and wanted to get one but we were on our way out and didn't want to wait for it right then so we decided we would just look for one online. I think I looked around a little bit online a day or two after we went to the fair but just forgot about it after that. I love the one he picked out because it has palm trees and mountains on it! A little bit of San Diego and a little bit of Salt Lake mixed together. Since that is where we've all lived as a family it really means a lot to me. And it has the year that we were married on it. ♥

He also got me beautiful flowers but I forgot to take a picture of them. :( The only picture that I sort of got of them was at Ashlynn's birthday party (I'll post pics from her party tomorrow). You can see part of them in the lower right hand corner of this picture.


They were beautiful and I loved them!

I got him tickets to the Zac Brown Band concert that was playing later in the month. I'll post pics from the concert in a few days. We had a blast!

I love you, babe!!!