3 years with My Favorite Boy

Cheers for three years friends. 

We have been playing host all week while Jay's family is in town for graduation/spring term starting. But on our anniversary we left Rory in their capable hands and went for an extra long date night! 

My only requests were that we crack out our wedding video and that I get honeycomb ice cream from Rockwell Creamery at some point in the evening. Lucky for me, Jay made all my dreams come true and it was one of my favorite dates we've been on. 

And honestly? We didn't do anything crazy. We bought Jay a new suit, drove around to all the apartments (except the barn, of course) we've lived in since our dating days, and watched our wedding video. We split a salad and french fries to leave room for dessert and turned in early. We just really really like being together. It's a pretty cool thing when you get to spend forever with your favorite person in the whole world. And to know that if you keep working it gets even better.

Jay Winters, you are my person and I love you. Wouldn't choose anyone else if I could. 

I will always be grateful God knew better than I did and gave me you.

So three apartments, a house, a baby, a puppy, and a whole lot of life later- cheers to three years!

(^ the only picture we got of the evening, per the usual)

winters weekends: summer

We live for the weekends around here, that's for sure. 

And date nights are a must. 

If they aren't a must in Jay's mind, I make them one immediately. 

This girl needs her date nights [and yes, two in one weekend is ok with me]

This weekend we opted to split our date night fund into multiple parts. 

So we chose the cheap food

[um, less than $10 for two people? thanks in-n-out], 

and the dollar theater, 

and saved the rest for shaved ice and Costco pizza for lunch today. 

We may be eating our date night dinner in the car on the way to the movies 

because it's hard to find enough time for both when Jay is so busy studying. 

Long story short, there's a lot of that studying thing going on.

It may be going on right now in fact. 

We are down to the last few weeks here people!

Yes for tests that determine a large part of your future!

And heaven help me with this boy and pictures. 

I figure he behaved for both our engagements and our wedding day, 

[which was hard enough] so I'll give him at least a couple years of slack. 

Mostly I think he's hilarious, so I can't be that mad anyways. 

Happy weekend to you and yours.

oh yeah, also- I chopped my hair off!

Happy summer!

weekending...

The two weeks before we got married [with finals and packing and everything else]
we only saw each other for an hour per day, tops.
I remember thinking it was going to be such a dream come summer when I could see Jay all the time.

Um, yes.
That was one of the few things I guessed right about marriage.
This time together has been the best.
Somehow though, date night is still needed.
There's something about getting out of the house,
dressing up, doing your hair [*cough cough*],
and going to a museum, or dinner, or a picnic.
Honestly, the what is less important.

So typically Jay leaves one full day of each weekend open, and we date each other.
We've made a habit lately of going to a different temple each week on date night and it's so fun.
We have gone to Oqurirh Mountain and Timpanogos, and this week we went to Bountiful.
Also, the Norman Rockwell Boy Scout exhibit in Salt Lake- it's so good! [and free. score]
The man was amazing. Holy.

Now I'm in full force moving mode.
We are moving out of our baby apartment!
Our current apartment is smaller than most single-wide trailers,  I looked.
But you know, we watched a documentary on sea gypsies this week,
and they live with four other people in a fishing boat. So no complaints.
Life's good.