Happy Anniversary to Us

This week was our 8th anniversary. We haven't celebrated other than just going out to dinner since before Corbin was born. When I looked at Corbin's school calendar and saw that he had 3 days of school off the same week as our anniversary I decided that we should take a trip down to Utah. There were so many reasons to go down. For one thing I love going to Salt Lake in October. It is beautiful. We haven't been down for several months. We could get the grandparents to babysit while we went on an over nighter. I could get apples from their apple tree to make applesauce. We all love going to Nana's house. The list goes on. Hooray for parent teacher conferences. 

We got up really early on Thursday morning and drove down. We made it to Salt Lake by 12:30, a perfect time to meet for lunch at Hires. The kids did awesome on the way down. Piper didn't cry once and she hardly whined. That is the best she has ever done in the car. After lunch we went back to the house and just chatted and hung around until dinner. After that Scott and I left to go check into our hotel room at the Anniversary Inn. We pretty much just enjoyed our time relaxing in the hotel until it was time to check out at noon the next day. I wasn't up to much being 9 months pregnant and all. I especially didn't want to do hardly any walking as it makes me have contractions and I did not want to have this baby while on location. After check out we went to lunch at Red Robin and walked around Ikea (that was a little too much walking) ha. We realized that our hotel room was practically across the street from the apartment complex where we met and we went to the same Red Robin that we went to on our first date. Cutest! 

Later that night we went to witches night at Gardner's Village with everyone. I've never been to Gardner's Village before and it is darling. There are tons of cute mom and pop stores that are most adorable. A lot of people came dressed as witches so it was fun to see all of the costumes. We also went on a scavenger hunt looking for the different witches at the different stores. After that we came home and had dinner followed by scones and gingerbread skeletons. My sister in law Rachel came over and chatted with us for a bit. She is living in Salt Lake doing her student teaching while my brother is in Oklahoma doing an internship (kind of a rough gig). It was fun to talk to her. After she left we all just chatted until bedtime.

On Saturday morning we went to Saturday's Waffles and then all of the ladies headed out to a baby shower. The men folk and children stayed home and worked in Rustin's yard for a long time. Later in the evening we went for a drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon and walked around Silver Lake at Brighton. The drive was beautiful. It was cold and Gabby wasn't up to the weather and I was having a lot of contractions walking so we headed back and  waited in the van for the rest of the group to walk around the lake. Later that night Scott and I went and visited with our friends Phil and Micaela. This morning we went to church, packed, ate lunch, and drove straight home. We didn't have to stop once. My kids are camels and I must be dehydrated because even I didn't need to take a rest stop. Nana loaded us up with all kinds of snacks so we were good to go. The kids did awesome on the way back too. It was a super fun trip as always. I was nervous to go being 36 weeks pregnant. I'm glad I made it back with baby still cooking. I definitely want to have this baby in Boise with my doctor. 

Belly shot: 36 weeks.

We stayed in the Log Cabin room. It was cute. I love log cabins. Scott enjoying his cheese cake which he LOVES!

Cannon grandkid pajama party. So adorable! Look at baby Greta's face!

Gardner Village pics

Corbin's hair! Ha.

This was my favorite witch.

I tired to get a shot with just Scott and me. Ha! These girls of mine.

Kids working. (Love Gabby following behind with a bag of cheetos). Nice!