A Perfect Second Anniversary Weekend

We did it! On December 16 we made it to the TWO YEAR mark in our marriage. These last two years have been extremely eventful, and extremely wonderful. All marriages have ups and downs, which we definitely have experienced, but what matters is coming out of them with more knowledge and experience than we had before. We have a long ways to go in our marriage, and hope that we can enjoy every mile-marker as much as we have this one.

Todd picked me up from work on Friday and we headed down to Salt Lake City. Fortunately, we beat the traffic of all those heading to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert, the John Schmidt Christmas Concert, and other various events being held. We checked in to the Little America Hotel, then decided to walk over to the Grand America Hotel to see their lights and play their window game. Although the game was really meant for little kids (you go window to window trying to find a star in each display), but we loved it! Their lights there are very beautiful as well. They are all white, but use various sized bulbs to give it a "twinkling" look.

We still had time before dinner started, so we walked over to the Trax station and took it to Temple Square. Todd bought us some nummy hot cocoa (not to hot, not to cold!) and we walked around and looked at the lights for a little bit. We were attempting to take a picture of ourselves under the tree where Todd proposed to me, and cute girl asked if she could help us out. We figured it was for the best, as our self-portriat skills were a little lacking :)

Our attempt at a self-portrait :)

Todd proposed to me under that tree on 9-9-09 :)

So beautiful!

After walking around a bit longer we headed back to Trax and took it to our dinner destination... Ruth's Chirs Steakhouse. It was AMAZING. The atmosphere was perfect, the services was wonderful, and the food was beyond perfect. They even put rose petals on our table for our Anniversary. I can't even count how many times we were told Happy Anniversary! We enjoyed our time there very much.

After dinner we headed back to our hotel to rest for about half an hour before taking off again to see Sherlock Holmes at the Gateway. The movie was great! Todd and I both absolutely loved it. By the time the movie finished it was after 12:30 am...WAY past my bedtime :) The only downside to all of this was that my cold slowly got worse as the hours went on, so by the time we went to bed I could hardly breathe out of my nose. Good times! But the rest of our experience made it way worth it.