I would imagine that most people will say that they had a memorable first anniversary. I can understand why. Just by virtue of the fact that it is the first anniversary, it is memorable. Josh and I celebrated our one year anniversary last month (Nov. 20) and it was one of the most memorable weekends EVER!
My birthday is near our anniversary and his birthday is near Valentine's day. We each think our birthday's are a big deal. Therefore, I take care of the anniversary and he is in charge of V-Day. That means, this anniversary... It was up to me to make it fabulous!
The weekend actually started several weeks ago by starting a string of misleading hints. I kinda think I'm awesome, not gonna lie. Some time ago I started dropping hints about not having enough money to do anything extravagant and asking questions like, "You'll be okay if it simple, right?" and "Do you mind if I don't get you anything and we just do something fun here?" or "It might be kinda lame, but I hope you like it." I am so sneaky!
The celebration started on Friday (even though our anniversary is was on Sat). I kicked him out of the house saying that I had to "prepare" things. I didn't really do a lot at home, but get myself ready and pack for the night. I told him though that he could not come back into the apartment because I didn't want to spoil things. Hehehehe.
I called him at 2:3o and told him to come home and I would meet him in the parking lot, thus began phase I. We jumped in the car and we were off! I wouldn't tell him where we were going and took a round-a-bout way of getting there. We finally arrived at our first destination: GINZA! We both very much love sushi, so I thought, what better way to celebrate than with one of our favorites! (It sure did help that it was half price sushi roles!) We ate until we were full! Josh also got an appetizer. Here is a video... I think it is NASTY, but Josh loves them... weird.
After we finished eating and were sufficiently stuffed, we got back in the car for phase II. We had some time before phase II could officially begin, so we went back to the Aves and drove around looking at our favorite houses there. We also drove by some of our favorite spots in the aves. We went by the park on M and 6th were we used to go to read with each other. We drove through the cemetery where we used to go running or walking together, past our old apartments, and to the spot where he first told me he loved me. (Are you ready to puke yet??)
As it got closer to 5, I blind folded Josh and tried as best I could to confuse him without making him car sick. Once I pulled into the parking lot, I let him take his blind fold off. The parking lot was an unmarked parking garage that helped conceal the surprise that much longer. I popped the trunk and asked him to help me get what was inside. He looked so confused! It was GREAT! We walked out of the parking garage to a sign that said, "Anniversary Inn." We checked in and... yada yada yada, we were really tired the next day. ;)
We packed up and began phase III. I packed our church clothes and we got dressed and checked out at noon. We headed to Bountiful and ended up here:
We were married in the Bountiful Temple on November 20, 2009 and returned one year later to celebrate our marriage and one wonderfullysuccessful year!! It was such a wonderfully touching experience. I am so grateful to have a husband that loves me and loves the Lord. We are a blessed family and I look forward to the day we can add to it! (This is NOT an announcement, so don't even ask...)
After the temple we were both starving, so we went to another one of our favorites... Neilson's Frozen Custard. Ummmmm... custard. :) It was awesome. My sister Mari was working and bought us our custard as an anniversary gift! BONUS! We were both pretty tired from all the celebrating we had been doing and decided we would make it a quite night at home on Saturday. However, before taking off we thought we would stop by my parents house to see Cali (my adorable niece) since we were in the area. We weren't there very long, but while we were, it started to snow! When we left the roads looked like this:
It was sort of scary because I didn't have the snow tires on my car yet. I was just a little nervous, but I wasn't too worried. I was stupid not to worry. The product of my complacency? Please see the following:
My lovely car of 10 years was destroyed! We hit a patch of ice and it was all over. Neither of us thought it would be that bad since we were going so slow when we hit the telephone pole, but we were wrong. Thanks to a wonderful friend (Shout out to the Brooks!) we were able to get the car to JP's Auto and Collision. I knew we could trust JP and his assessment of the car. Unfortunately, not even he could save my baby. RIP Honey!
Although the night ended with a bang (hahaha! pun intended), it was a wonderful anniversary. I think I am so lucky and blessed to have such a great husband in my life. He takes great care of me. He watches over me and knows my soul. I am forever grateful that he was brought into my life.
