Fourth Anniversary!!

It's that time again - time to dote and love on my husband. Just like my birthday, it seemed like our anniversary snuck up on us, without all the normal months of planning. We decided we would do a trip every other year, and gifts every other year. This year was a trip year, but we als took a big trip to Florida, so that had to count. Meaning, we didn't do a trip OR gifts on our actual anniversary. As the day rolled near, we had vague plans to spend some time in Park City and eat at the Melting Pot, but 2 days before, Amie and I got a nasty stomach flu. Jeff kept saying "You'd better not be sick on our anniversary!" I was still a bit subdued, but feeling just better enough. Lo and behold, as you guessed, Aug. 30th rolls around and Jeff started taking his turn with the stomach flu.

We tried to set out with our plans and headed up the canyon. We stopped in at the Olympic park and checked out the skiing museum, which was actually fun. We went from there just to meander around historic Park City. We really enjoyed looking in the art galleries and some shops. We had a late lunch (due to large breakfast) at Good Thymes, which I am sure was really good... but, we both discovered we were not up to it, so we spent a whole lot of money and took our food to go. We knew we needed low-key so we scoped out a movie theater which just happened to be showing The Help starting right then. We stopped in to see the movie (It was great!) and knew we didn't have anything left in us, so we went to pick up the kiddos. Jeff spent the rest of the day in bed.

We were both feeling better by Thursday, so we were able to get a pity babysitting from Jeff's sister and went to have our anticipated dinner at the Melting Pot. It was delicious, but rough. We hadn't been eating much in the days before that and we got so full so fast! Took home some food from there, too.

I mentioned our anniversary must be doomed - this year getting violently ill, last year my grandfather passed away, and the year before that our cruise couldn't go to Cabo because of a hurricane! Next year, we'll be sure to put in lots of planning, and take lots of vitamins...

We've come well to the point where now when I say "4 years" it doesn't seem nearly long enough. It feels like we have been together forever, and in a good way. :) I taught the lesson in Young Women's today about dating and got the chance to reflect back a lot on dating, and it just makes me even more grateful for such an amazing partner in all of life's adventures. I can not wait for dozens more!