Happy Anniversary

I never thought I could love someone as much as I love Stephen! He is my everything and more. We were lucky enough to celebrate our one year anniversary twice. It was absolutely perfect! On our actual anniversary we woke up to an empty apartment (because we had moved all our things to our new apartment) with hardly any food in it, stressfully made it to church, came home from church and made mac and cheese and leftover pizza, then Stephen left to go study for finals. It wasn't exactly what I had in mind for a perfect one year anniversary. Thankfully one of our good friends Tai invited us over for dinner. We hung out with their adorable kids and Stephen won a paper airplane contest. It was so fun being able to spend the afternoon with them. Then we headed home and watched our wedding video together. I am so glad we had one made. Pictures are amazing to look back on but having an actual video of our wedding is incredible. Our anniversary could have been more exciting but in a way it was perfect.
Once we made it home to Utah we celebrated our anniversary again. This time we tried to copy our wedding day and our first day married as closely as we could. When we got married our Sealer told us he hoped we would come back to the temple every year on our anniversary and to still be doing Sealings on our 50th anniversary. We were able to do Sealings in the Salt Lake Temple our first weekend home. It was such a special experience. I love being able to listen to what was said when we were married a year ago and remember all of the wonderful blessings. I hope on our 50th anniversary we are still able to go do them.
After going to the Temple we had dinner at the cheesecake factory. It has become one of our favorite places to eat in Salt Lake. We spent the night where we spent our first night married at the inn on the hill bed and breakfast. They left out some sparkling cider for us and I had a small cake made to look like our wedding cake so we could traditionally have some of our wedding cake on our first anniversary. I felt like having a fresh cake was a much better option then freezing real wedding cake for a year. It was delicious. We had such a good time at the inn on the hill. They even brought us breakfast in bed the next morning. While eating we watched country music videos in bed. It was a lot of fun. One of the videos we watched was "I don't dance" by Lee Brice. I had never heard it before but now whenever I listen to it I think back on our anniversary and how much I love being married to Stephen.
We went for a walk around the capital after checking out of the hotel but kept it pretty short because it was a bit chilly. Later we went to the Kura Door for a couples message where we went a year earlier on our first day married. It was an amazing anniversary weekend! I am so lucky to have Stephen in my life. We are absolutely perfect for each other. I can't wait to celebrate 50 more years together.

Dominica Anniversary!

Utah Anniversary! 

View from our room at Inn on the Hill

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