8 Year Anniversary

Happy 8 Years to my David. 

I can hardly believe that it's been eight years since that beautiful day in June when my life changed infinitely for the better. 

Eight years is a long time. It's as long as my entire high school and college years combined. We're no longer anywhere near the newly-wed stage, which sometimes surprises me because I feel like we just barely got married. (That thought is quickly laughed away as I look at our three children running around in our beautiful house. "Oh, right - three kids. We're obviously not newlyweds.") 

My mom came down and stayed for the weekend so that she could watch the kids while we went out. We got a double-date-night and we went out on Friday AND Saturday. Some years we've talked and felt like we really wanted to go somewhere nice or do something big to celebrate. But this year, we agreed that we just wanted to do something simple and fun and just enjoy being together. (Not to mention taking the money that we would have spent on a nice restaurant and putting it to just buying whatever food we wanted all weekend long.) It was perfect. 

Friday night we went to the Waffle-Love location in Draper and got the yummiest waffles ever. I'm not sure why, but in the picture below, our waffles are mixed up. I got the Fried Ice Cream/Caramel one, and David got the Strawberry Banana one. I only mention it because I usually get the fruit things and David usually gets the caramel things, but we we both maintain that the waffle we got was the best one. (Seriously, my mouth is watering just looking at that Caramel Ice Cream right there.) Caleb was our faithful little third wheel. He wins best-baby award, for sure. 

We stopped at Best Buy and bought a Google Wi-Fi router (yay! *update* we ended up taking it back because it didn't actually help our internet speed, boo!), and then decided to stop at Home Depot because it was in the same parking lot as Best Buy and we're thinking about getting some trees for our backyard. Did you know that there are such things as variety trees? As in - a tree that can grow multiple kinds of apples? Or, get this, a tree that can grow peaches, plums, nectarines, AND apricots??? All on the same tree. I didn't believe it, but we looked it up on our phones (what did people do before Google?) and it's totally legit. Walking around looking at things with David is my favorite thing ever and exactly what I needed. 

Saturday night we hit up the South Jordan Summer Fest and walked around the booths at the fair. We grabbed some breadsticks from Village Baker and ate them outside in the grass. We ended the night by picking up some candy and waiting just long enough for our kids to fall asleep at home (thank you mom!) before bringing our wonderful but sleepy baby home, putting him to bed, then eating candy, pizza, and italian ices while watching our current binge-TV show, Scorpion. 

David had to work today on our actual anniversary, but we're planning to grab our favorite take-out (Arby's for him and Panda for me) and watch a cute Hallmark Movie tonight. Our celebrations might be simple, but they are perfect for us this year. 

I'm so glad to celebrate us. I can't believe how lucky I am to be married this this amazing man. He's the best in every way, and sometimes I feel guilty for being the one that gets to be with him. In honor of this celebration, I thought I'd jot down a few things that I love about our relationship: 

-Loving to do just anything together, whether it's working in the yard or date night on the town. 

-David sings silly songs to the kids, and to me. He did this when we were dating and I loved it, but over the past several years I've started joining in and singing silly songs together.

-Sending random texts back and forth during the day, just so the other person knows they are being missed. 

-Having so many of the same feelings/views on things. We have a standing rule that if at any point either one of us decides that we don't want to watch a TV show that we've started, we just turn it off and find something else - no questions asked. This is just an example of how supportive and comfortable our relationship is. It makes it so much easier that we have such similar ideas on things. 

-David always eats everything/anything that I make for dinner and never ever complains. Even when we both know that it's not his favorite meal - or when it's a new meal I'm trying and it turns out poorly. He always eats at least one serving and thanks me for taking the time to make dinner. (He also always pretends to like the vegetables so that the kids will eat them, too.) In turn, if he's hungry later at night after the kids go to bed - it's always fine for him to heat up some pizza bites or some other food to supplement. Neither of us gets our feelings hurt or has any issues. I'm grateful for this.

-David constantly makes me feel like I'm the most important thing to him and that he'd rather be with me than anywhere else. He works so hard, but at the end of the day - he's always happy to come home and be with our family. 

Happy 8 Years David! I hope that in 30 years we'll look back at this blog post and think "We really were just newlyweds at 8 years" - but that we will look back at this time fondly and that we will still love each other just as much!