five year anniversary

Justin and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary on August 16, 2013. I took a box of presents to Justin's coworker the day before our anniversary and instructed him to take a present to Justin at 8:05, 9:05, 10:05, etc until 3:05. This was so fun. The first present was a letter I wrote and the last present was a DVD of highlights from our first five years. These were the rest of the presents: 

Justin had plans for me too. He left a letter for my under my phone in the morning. I found another letter on the kitchen counter that talked about how he appreciates what I do as a mom and wife and that I need to pamper myself sometimes and gave me a gift certificate for a spa pedicure. I then found another present on the seat of my car with another letter that talked about my work ethic and how hard I work and he eluded to a comparison of me and our idol Russell Wilson #notimetosleep (which I'm sure only he and I understand, lol) and I opened the paper to find my very own RW jersey. So stoked about this. My final present he gave me in person with a letter about how he thinks I'm beautiful and how I make other people look beautiful too with my photography and the present with that was a set of new lenses for my iPhone. And they are pretty awesome. (I used my new wide angle lens on the bottom right photo of the city.) 

So I think it suffices to say we both made each other happy. 

I thought it would be a great idea to bring the boys along on our night away in SLC at Little America since I breastfeed Colter and might as well bring ez too. I THOUGHT it would be fun. Haha. It wasn't all terrible, though Justin and I both lost our patience with our very energetic three year old at one point. I lost my patience while at the hotel and Ezra felt it appropriate to throw everything in reach across the room while whining to go swimming. Justin lost his patience after Ezra repeatedly ran off in H&M and down the escalators while we were trying to leave. But all in all it was a great Friday night with swimming, Trax riding, City Creek shopping, food court eating, and not much sleep. (The boys fell asleep at 11 pm, hello!). 

In the morning we had breakfast in the coffee shop, swam again, and headed home. Overall, it was nice to spend the weekend with my boys as per usual. 

A present that we both got, however, was from Justin's parents who paid for our reservation before we got to the hotel and left a note wishing us a happy anniversary. It was such a surprise! We got to stay on the 16th floor, room 1603, and had a huge balcony which was very cool. 

Some more pics:

Five years down. Forever to go.