1 year down..eternity to go! -part 2-

In addition to the beautiful flowers and the evening at The Roof Eric booked a night stay at the Anniversary Inn. Since our anniversary was on Monday and we both had school/work the next day he booked the stay for the Saturday. Of course you can't just go straight to the hotel so since we were downtown we had to eat at our favorite restaurant- Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana. They have some of the best pizza I've ever had (and that's saying something coming from a picky Italian). All their pizza's are served hot right out of their brick ovens!!

Caprese-I love this stuff. For those of you who were at my wedding, we served the tomato, mozerella, and basil on a skewer thing, this was my inspiration.

Mmmmmm Delish

Oh yeah, did I mention they also have a gelato shop attached to their restaurant...

Their nutella gelato is my favorite!

Had to add this for my Italian family- You know it's legit when they service Baci's!!

At the Anniversary Inn we stayed in the Venice room. I gotta say Eric did gooood. It was an amazing room! (this was our first stay here and we WILL be going back!)

This was our bath tub-huge-and the shower was a waterfall. I am pretty sure I need one in my house one day...

The bed was, of course, a gondola

Oh ya know, just rowing the gondola....we are dorks....so perfect for each other....

They keep a book in the room where everyone who stays in the room can write about their experience so of course we had to read it. I felt like I was reading someones journal and of course, me being the nosy body I am, loved every bit of it! Most the entries were the same old thing..."we've been married for 100 years and we are so in love and we love this room" but there was one that I thought was hilarious so I thought I would share! (sorry it's sideways...dunno how to turn it on blogger and way to lazy to figure it out)

Eric gets an A++ this year for the anniversary. I couldn't have asked for a more fun/relaxing time with a more handsome man!

1 year down..eternity to go! -part 1-

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!! Last Monday was our 1 year anniversary. I can't believe it has already been a year. It's the strangest feeling, I feel like I have known Eric WAY longer than 2 years but it feel like we just got married yesterday. Crazy how time flies! Well on to the festivities. Eric and I have decided to split this anniversary thing by switching off each year (I don't think it's fair that he should have to plan every anniversary...). This year was his year. Of course we had work and school so that was a downer but I got home and figured I would straighten up the house a bit while I waited for Eric to get home from work (I had no idea what he had planned...if he had a plan...). Well 15 min after I get home Eric shows up with these lovely ladies....

and this....

That's right folks! He took me to eat at The Roof Restaurant on the top of the Joseph Smith building. The food was great not to mention the view was BEAUTIFUL! It was fun to get all dressed up and go out for a night. I love dressing up..it's a shame there aren't very many reasons to do so...

Oh yeah, so we got to our table and the hostess brought me this....

-Breathtaking view-

Needless to say we had a great night! It was an amazing anniversary for an amazing year married.

(cheesy? I think so too...)

-Love Him-

Thanksgiving with the Riddle's

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Riddle's! We had it at the Combs' home and Shanna worked so hard and did a wonderful job at making everything look so cute, not to mention the food was DELICIOUS!! We had so much fun eating, talking, and playing games...Oh and let's not forget the Riddle's annual turkey bowl game! Unfortunately I am horrible at taking pictures so I didn't get many other than of the turkey bowl game...I think I am still used to having my mom around who will get plenty of pictures to go around :) ....I'll work on it....

Dale pretty much played QB the whole time...for both teams since there was an uneven number....

Love this picture! Look close at Justin and Aaron in back...I am pretty sure he is grabbing the flag...I could be wrong??? :)

I wasn't planning on playing at all since I was still trying to get over bronchitis but due to an injury I decided to sub in.

About half way through the game Aaron took a dive for Eric's flag, landed on his shoulder funny and ended up going into the emergency room. He was the 6th TBI (turkey bowl injury) that day! At least he knew he wasn't alone right? He had a level 2 AC separation (the joint between your acromion and clavicle) Lucky for him he didn't have to have surgery but unfortunately there isn't a whole lot you can do for those so they sent him home with a sling, a bag of ice, and some good drugs. And to top it all off, he didn't even get Eric's flag :( But needless to say Aaron was a whole lot of fun drugged up the for the rest of the day :)

Aaron's xray

Happy Halloween

We headed to Roosevelt the weekend before Halloween and the family decided to throw together a little Halloween party. I can't remember the last time (if ever) I saw my parents dress up. It was a goooood time! :)

Mr. & Mrs. Dracula (The mama and papa)

Vampire Shan and her pumpkin patch baby Ethan

Mr. Disguise and his wife Mario (Dougie and Ivie)
(Doug made sure he had the best costume-hick farmer on the outside and Captain America when he drops his drawers...not joking. He wouldn't let anyone get a picture of his super hero side, to bad it was hilarious...)

Vampire Ariana (it was a popular theme for the night)

Zombie Lovers (Eric and I)

Farrari the Hippie (she looks like she is all doped up...suspicious?)
Morph Man
(Ammon-Daisy HATED this costume most she screamed as soon as he entered the room)
Eliot the "Good Black Witch"
(she made sure everyone knew she was a black witch, but the good kind not the bad kind)
Eric & I made witches finger cookies! They actually turned out pretty darn good!
Spider Deviled Eggs
After we ate we played a little just dance 3

A weekend with miss Addy

Well a couple of weeks ago we invited my 6 year old niece Addy to come spend a weekend with us in the "big city". We had soooo much fun together! She got here late friday night and left sunday afternoon. We did everything from school shopping to fun parks! She is such a sweet heart and we were so lucky to have her come. Although she was having the time of her life she didn't forget about the those 3 younger siblings she left at home. She kept saying that she hoped they were having fun even though she was gone and couldn't play with them. She even called and insisted on talking to everyone last one of them (even Daisy who is barely a yr old).
To start our weekend we went to Hollywood Connections in West Valley they had everything! We did mini golf, small roller coasters, bumper cars, arcade games, carousel, and got some ice cream on the way out!

What a good daddy that man will be one day (not any day soon though :))

Addy LOOOOOVVEEDD mini golf more than anything she wanted us to take picture after picture!

This is by far my favorite pic! What a character!

School shopping-Addy had the genius idea to put on "crazy sunglasses" and take a picture.

I had promised the Adster that we would take her to a water park but there just wasn't enough hours in the weekend and by the time we finished school shopping it was dark so instead I took her to get her first pedicure! Boy did she love that!

Last but not least sunday before Addy left I pulled out a special pillowcase I had made for her where we wrote down all the fun things we did during the weekend and drew little pictures to go with them. She had a lot of fun documenting our adventures and was so excited to take it home and show her siblings we also printed all the pictures from the weekend and put them in an album for to keep forever! She loved it and we loved having her around!

Up House

For those of you haven't heard there is a house in Herriman, UT that is a replica of the house from the Disney movie Up! From the bright colors to the babies nursery it's ALL there! Eric and i decided since it's just a jump hop and skip away from our house that we would stop by during the parade of homes and see what all the commotion was about.
They don't show the kitchen in the movie so they just did whatever they wanted here...i LOVED the kitchen blue appliances and all!!!