3 years and counting

Last Monday, April 27, we celebrated our 3rd Anniversary. That's right, we have been married for 3 wonderful years!! It has been the best and most exciting three years of my life. I have done more, traveled more, cried and laughed more, learned more, and loved more in the last three years then I have in my whole life.

We have lived in 3 different states
We have lived in three different homes
We have been on one amazing Alaskan cruise
We have made Two trips to Hawaii
We have made Three ER/hospital visits 
We have made the cutest little boy ever









We had the best Anniversary yet. Matt was full of surprises all day long. My first surprise was this


Oh, Yeah, now I won't be lost anymore. I am the worst when it comes to directions, i just can't seem to figure out where I am without my mountains. My poor friends are always getting calls when I'm lost in scary Detroit to guide me back home safe and sound.  But now I can go wherever I want and I won't get lost:) I have been wanting one of these forever.

Then it was Matt's turn for his surprise and he got.....




I was so excited to give him this, it was the whole package, bag, clubs, gloves and socks. I don't think I have ever seen him so happy with a gift before. He has already gone 3 times this week so I think it was money well spent.

Then it was my turn again.  Matt planned a night out all to ourselves.  He asked the Chase family to watch Ammon.   Little did I know he was going to spend the night there:) We dropped Ammon off and then we went to dinner. We went to Portofino's.  It was so nice!   We sat outside by the river and were able to enjoy the beautiful weather and the calmness of the water. I love summer just for this reason.


After dinner we went out to a movie and saw 17 again. It was such a strange feeling to go out all night and do whatever we wanted without worrying about having to get back home to Ammon.

After the movie we were off to the hotel. To be honest I had no idea why we were doing this. It's not like we are on our honeymoon.  It was past midnight and I couldn't figure out why we were going to spend money to go to some hotel.  I thought we were just going to go to sleep and wake up early to pick up Ammon and send Matt off to work at 8:00 in the morning.  Matt on the way was telling me that we were going to spend the night at super 8.  Again, why are we spending the night when we could sleep in our own beds.  I couldn't really tell if Matt was being serious or not about the super 8.  We were driving around in a area that wasn't very nice which usually means not the nice's hotels.  But then the area started to change, the yards and buildings started to get nicer and so did the streets. And then all of a sudden this appered..... the Dearborn Inn


It was beautiful. It looked like a castle from the outside and the inside was amazing.  My attitude and opinion changed about the whole hotel thing. I started to get excited about staying here.  To have somewhere nice and clean to stay with nothing to worry about was a wonderful feeling. We went to our room and I just couldn't wait to fall asleep and know that a baby wasn't going to wake me up in the morning.  Right before we went to bed Matt gave me my last surprise. He told me that he didn't have work in the morning and we could sleep in all morning and take it easy.  Jared and Margi were going to watch him all morning. Oh I was so excited about all of this. It was just what I needed especially after everything that happened over the last month.

Thank you so much honey for giving me the best Anniversary ever.  I love you!