Monday, February 23, 2009

Happy 7 yaer Anniversary

Wow I can not believe that it has been 7 years already. Gary and I have had such a wonderful ride, yet at times i has been hard, but VERY WORTH IT. Gary and I met at the Glendora 6th singles ward, and ended up talking all night long... I went home that morning knowing this would be the man I would marry. Sure enough I did, and I SCORED!!! Since Valentines Day is so close to our Anniversary this year we decided to combine the both and GO BIG. So we got a babysitter for overnight and then made our plans. For the first time in 7 years we were going away and funny thing is we did not know what to do. So with the help of my sister we came up with a list of things which were Horse back riding, camping, going to the snow, snowboarding, staying at the Hilton, going on a helicopter ride, to a glass bottom boat ride, and the list goes on and on. What to do, we really could not figure it out. I really wanted to go snowboarding, I have never been and thought it would be fun, but did not want to deal with the crowd. So after all this thinking planning we decided we would do....... NONE OF THEM. Gary ended up making reservations at this Restaurant called Villa Nova down in Newport Beach. It is a fancy Italian restaurant. We had a table for two about 20 feet away from the water overlooking the bay area. It was beautiful, we had a romantic dinner and a wonderful dessert that was so yummy. Then we went on with our night to the Newport Temple and walked around. It was gorgeous. As we were walking we came across this spider and a slug and sat there and watched it for a while untill the spider finally ran away. We walked around and when we were getting to leave e looked over and saw three bunny rabbits on the grass and tried to take pictures of it, but it was too dark. Then after that it was getting late, real late and we thought should we stay down here or go home. No one was there why spend more money, so we went home, and enjoyed our night with no kids to wake us up in the morning or crawl in our bed. The next morning we went out to brunch, and then shopping and then to pick up our children in the late afternoon. We had a wonderful time and I am so grateful for my husband. He is such a wonderful man, and I can not imagine my life without him. I am looking forward to spending ETERNITY with him.
OH WAIT THAT IS NOT ALL. So we got married on Feb. 23 so yes my being pampered and being a princess was not over yet.
Gary came home from work on Monday and to my surprise had a bouquet of flowers(daisy's my favorite) and our favorite desert from Chili's. What a man. I SCORED. It has been an amazing 7 years with lots of memories made and can not wait to make more memories with him. Thanks for such a wonderful weekend honey, you are really my prince.


Gary and I at Villa Nova


Are yummy Soufle(?)



The spider vs The slug


The Newport Temple


The 3 bunny rabbits


Us at the Temple


My beautiful Flowers



The best dessert

6 comments:

fijiangirl said...

Congratulations on 7 years!!!! Most marriages don't even last this long and you made it past the "itch"! Ha Ha... Glad you were able to spend some alone time together.

Bunnell's said...

Linds...what a great hubby! The temple is the best date ever! Miss you guys!

Jon + Carly said...

what a sweet post! I'm so glad you guys had a good time.

The Faris Family said...

hey girl! It was really good talking to you the other day. We should totally do it more often! I am so glad that you guys are happy! If it took you guys going down to Cali for that to happen then I am really happy...even though I miss you tons!!! It stinks to not be able to call you up and say..hey come over for dinner and hang out! Love ya!

Unknown said...

These are the happy moments that make it all worth it. Congrats guys! You both look beautiful!

Brookie said...

happy anniversary!! i am so happy you had a good one:)
miss you:)