Happy Anniversary!

Every year Neal and I switch off planning our anniversary. I was in charge of last year and we went on a cruise! That vacation was unforgettable, I dream about going back. Cruises are our absolute favorite vacation to do together! So for this year, we though FOR SURE we'd have a baby by September 19th so we decided to just wait and celebrate our anniversary in October. Neal has something special planned to surprise me with next month but that still left us with no plans on our actual anniversary.

We woke up and were both surprised to find letters to one another. I wrote one for Neal last week and saved it and he wrote mine over the weekend. We both set them in the kitchen the night before for the other to find in the morning haha Great minds think alike, right? :)

The words that were shared in each of those letters were so special. My sweet husband wrote about our actual sealing day and EVERYTHING that he remembers about it. It was so fun to relive that day through Neal's eyes and find out some special things he was thinking :) His letter made me feel so special and loved. I hope that when we pass from this world that we can go back and relive certain days of our lives, our sealing day would be at the top of my list!

So since we didn't have any specific plans, we decided to steal an idea from our past selves and recreate a date we went on when we were in college together.

It was during Christmas break and all of our friends were still out of town. We were both bored one day so Neal suggested that we go hiking. I told him I could go but I would have to be back at a certain time because I had a date planned that night (Not with Neal, some other guy, aren't I so nice? haha) So Neal agreed he'd have me home on time and off we went!

He took me to this really cool place on your way out to pine valley. The views were beautiful! We ended up just sitting out on the rocks, taking pictures, and talking for hours. I remember that it was in December so it was extra beautiful because of the snow covering the red rocks. I didn't care though, I was just excited to spend the afternoon with Neal :)
After our hike Neal convinced me to go to 25 main with him so he could pick up some dinner. I couldn't pass up a 25 main cupcake so of course I agreed. Sure enough, we sat at the diner and talked for too long. My date was supposed to pick me up soon and I really really didn't want to go. Like... at all. I was brat and ended up texting my dad and made up some lame excuse as to why I couldn't go tonight. I felt bad... but then again I didn't really... I just wanted to be with Neal and not go on a date with some guy that I knew I wouldn't get along with as well as I did with Neal. Neal was always just so much more fun for me to be around. I could be myself, I didn't have to try to be someone else or impress him in anyway. I knew I could just be me and he always accepted me. He was just so easy to be around. So- I canceled my date with a dud and spent the rest of the night with Neal. We didn't do anything exciting after that, in fact, nothing at all really. But I still had a great time with him just like I always did :)

So who would have thought that three years later we would be going on that exact same hike but now married and pregnant with our first child? :)
We did the same hike and hiked up to the same rocks. We brought a picnic and our camera again. It was so quiet up there, I loved it. We really were able to just spend time alone with each other and enjoy each other's company. I loved being able to have Neal all to myself. We had a great time!

Here I am, 40.3 weeks pregnant! haha Grateful that Liam let us celebrate our anniversary before he made his appearance.
"I love you more than you'll ever know"
After the hike we went back to 25 main and had their famous cupcakes :) It was a perfect night, especially for a thrown together anniversary celebration... I loved it.
Happy Anniversary! Here's to us and eternity :)