4 years down...the rest of eternity to look forward to!

Well on August 4th it was mine and Chris' 4 year anniversary. That night Chris surprised me with my favorite flowers, lilly's. The picture doesn't do them justice they are absolutley beautiful. I was in charge of the anniversary activities this year. We dropped Lydia off at my parents on Friday at about 2:00 and headed down town. If you know Chris and I you know that we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hole in the wall restaurants. Sometimes we find the best restaurants and other times we come home sick. We kept hearind about the "Red Iguana" we had both been dying to go there so our first stop was lunch. It was the BOMB, you know it's going to be good when it is packed on a Friday at 3:00. Seriously it was so so good.
Next we went to Gateway and saw G.I. Joe, now if I can save anyone some money and 2 1/2 hours that you will never get back DO NOT SEE THAT MOVIE! We were both pissed the first 3 minutes, and if we weren't in the middle of the row we would've walked out for sure. It sucked. After that horrible movie we went and checked into our hotel. I have always wanted to stay at the Hotel Monaco. It was so cute and very classy. Our room was awesome minus our view of the vallet parking. It is so weird how just staying the night away can make such a difference.
Once we got all checked in we decided to hop on tracks and ride for a bit. We got off at Gateway and walked through some of the stores, I met a bagpipper that I had to get my picture with. Then it was too the roof. We went there for our 1st anniversary and it was such an amazing experience, and I say experience because it isn't just dinner it is so much more. We had reservations for 8:30 and our table was directly in front of the temple. It is seriously a spiritual experience. The piano, the temple, I seriously got teary eyed looking down at the excited brides walking the temple grounds and thinking that was us 4 years ago. We ate to our hearts content and you will see from the picture that I PIGGED out on the desserts. We were laughing so hard because they had special dessert plates and I bypassed those and got a full on dinner plate and literally I got One of EVERYTHING. The waitress was laughing at me that's how bad it was.
After dinner we walked back to the hotel and stopped at the lounge for a hot cocoa, we were both so full it was awesome. Then the next morning I slept in for the first time in 8 months, it was awesome. Then we had to try another dive that we have heard amazing things about. So we went to the "Blue Plate Diner" for breakfast. It did not dissapoint, the omlet was absolutely delectable, and Chris' breakfast burrito looked amazing. Then we headed to my Parents to pick Liddy. We had such a fun little mini vacay. And a super huge thank you to my parents who watched Lydia. She didn't want to leave, they definitely spoil that child.

My beautiful flowers!
The Red Iguana, I wasn't kidding when I said it is a hole in the wall.
I will be the first to say never judge a book by it's cover it was amazing.

I would reccomend this hotel to anyone it was so nice, and great service. But I would take trax down instead of having to do the vallet parking.

I loved the bright colors, and seriously wanted to take the wall paper home.

Our little sitting room

The cool bag piper!

The perfect time to eat at the roof...just as the sun is setting!

4 years together and just as in Love as the day we got married.

Dessert anyone...mind you it was a buffet, so yes I did go back for more (ha ha ha!)

Nothing beats eating with a view of the temple...especially when you can make requests to the pianist like "Annie's Song" and she knew it.

So 4 years has flown by and who are we kidding I seriously Love Chris SO SO SO much. It is so amazing to think back on all the things that we have shared and been through together. I love him he is my best friend, my soul mate, and I can't wait for what the rest of eternity has in store for us!