Anniversary Celebration - The Real One

Aaron and I finally got away for our anniversary. We spent Thursday night in Salt Lake at the Anniversary Inn. It's a really cool place, they have themed rooms. We stayed in the Lighthouse Room.

The bed was inside the light house and it was round and had a million pillows. Above the bed, in the ceiling of the light house, there was a fish tank. In the middle of the room was a big TV and a little couch thing. And a cute little breakfast table with two chairs. The room came with a bottle of Martinellie's, two pieces of cheesecake, and a breakfast that was to die for. It was a large ham and cheese croissant, a large cinnamon roll, and we each got a cup of yogurt and granola, and juice. It was really good. The huge jetted tub was probably my favorite part, but the shower was a very close second. It was so nice to just get away and relax.

Every year since our honeymoon, we've taken a "postcard" picture of what we do to celebrate our anniversary. Every post card is of our feet in front of whatever we did that year. It's fun to flip through all the years and see the different things we've done. Here's this year's postcard.

Friday morning we decided to go and check out This Is The Place Monument. It's been a long time since either of us had been there. It was a beautiful day, and we had a good time just going around and reading all the plaques.

While reading one of the plaques, I learned that Erastus Snow was one of the first men in the company with Brigham Young to enter the Salt Lake Valley (the other was Orson Pratt). Anyways, it made me wonder if maybe Charles Erastus Swan (Aaron's great grandpa) was named after Erastus Snow. The reason I wonder this, is because Ivan is named Ivan Erastus Swan after Charles Erastus, and if Charles Erastus was named after Erastus Snow, then Ivan is indirectly named after him also. That would be cool. Here's a bit from the plaque.

After This Is The Place, we took our Subway sandwiches and went over to Kelly and Esther's house to have a picnic in they're beautiful backyard, and hang out with them and hold Baby Asher for a bit. It was nice to see them and focus on the conversation instead of on what havoc our kids were reeking.

We left Kelly and Esther's after a couple hours and decided to go check out temple square. It's been awhile since we've been there. We had a great time. We spent most of our time in the South Visitor's Center, looking at the model of the Salt Lake Temple that has the sides cut away so you can see the rooms and everything. It was really cool. We never did get a picture of it though. But we got some good ones outside.

We stopped and ate at Iggy's Sportsgrill on our way to pick up our kids. Neither of us had ever been there before, but it was really good. I was happy to learn they have one in Orem as well.

We got to my parents house right before the boys went to bed, so we got to see them. They were pretty excited to have us back. Lincoln kept saying, "My family! My family!" We spent the night in Hooper and then came home Saturday morning.

Thanks Mom and Kerry for watching the kiddos so we could have a much needed break!