2 Years Down, Infinity to Go

Scott and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary over 6 days! Anyone who knows me well will know that making big deals out of special events is my most favorite thing ever, and Scott sure did make this anniversary special!

It started the night before our anniversary, Thursday, December 27th. The family I work for gave us some certificates for a 5 course tasting menu at a super nice restaurant as an early Christmas present. I saved it for our anniversary since it was something really special.  We ate amazing food, and Scott's face after taking his first bite was priceless.... I should mention that his first bite was a piece of bread!

Our menu, which did not help us know what to expect next!

Scott getting ready to eat his Seared Barramundi (course 3)

Happiest, full bellied Scott I've ever seen :)

Our delicious dessert (course 5)

The next morning, Scott got out of the shower to his small anniversary surprise. 

And surprise me with these when he came home from work. They're dried, which means I get to enjoy them for a super long time! 

We got a piece of cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory and called it a night so that we could be up in time for our bus to Vancouver the next morning. 

This was our hotel. We were on the 27th floor!

We got to our hotel and were super excited for our awesome room. 

And couldn't get enough of our amazing view, during the day. 

Or at night. 

We got a nice welcoming gift of some delicious chocolates! 

And got to have a cool card key

We went for a walk and found a music store, I found hybrid pianos, and fell in love. I want one so bad! So much better than the nicest digital piano. 

Our walk continued and we found these lights on the front of a hospital. 

We woke up the next morning to this accident, and Scott took ten billion pictures, everyone crawled out safe. 

We couldn't find gas stations anywhere in the city, but we found one out in the water! Good thing we didn't need gas, cause it may have caused some water damage. 

Here are some pictures from our foot-travel sight seeing we did the second day:

The olympic cauldron 

I thought he looked like a lego whale

One of the Fairmont's. The top square was what looked like an amazing 2 story suite. 

North Vancouver 

A steam powered clock. 

The next day (NYE) we decided to rent a car and drove to Stanley Park.

Here are some pictures of my handsome husband from the day. 

And the beautiful places we got to be 

 Saw some totem polls. 

And a bridge Scott was in love with

A hollow tree

 A beach.

And the city 

The night before we had heard an extremely loud noise and were really startled, but no one around us seemed to think anything of it, which really confused us. It sounded like a cannon. So when we found this the next day, it made a lot more sense. 

When it got dark, Scott took me to see the Christmas lights in the park since I had told him I really wanted to do that. 

 They were pretty cool, but it was much smaller than expected. 

Scott also got me some roasted chestnuts since I had been telling him how I love them so much and haven't had them since a winter I was in France when I was super little. The smell brought back so many memories! I loved them, Scott not so much, so I ate almost all of them on my own. 

We got some take out sushi so we could eat in our room with our view that we couldn't get enough of. And my goodness, was it delicious sushi, we could only eat half of it! 

The next day, we went on a final walk and enjoyed the beautiful, clean city of Vancouver one more time. We also thought we should at least get one picture that had both of us in it since it was our anniversary trip.  

We were both ready to go home, even though we had an amazing time and would miss our hotel. What an unforgettable anniversary! 

So, after 2 years, what have I learned from my marriage to this wonderful man?? 

I learned that I can never be too patient or too understanding. Marriage forces you to give the other the benefit of the doubt, to humble yourself, to become more patient than you thought you could be, to try and look at things from the other's perspective. I am very lacking on all of those things, but luckily, marriage also teaches you to be forgiving, and Scott is the most forgiving person I have EVER met.

I learned that you can feel at home, no matter where you are, if your highest commitment is to your spouse and you have them by your side. I have come to understand myself better, and have become a better person because of him. He helps me strive to do what's right, at ALL times. 

I am so thankful that I made the decision to marry Scott 2 years ago. It has been the smartest decision I have ever made. 

Christmas!

We went back to Boise for Christmas. We were supposed to leave Saturday morning, but there was a storm coming in, so when I got off work at 11pm Friday night, Scott was with me already so we took off from there. Scott stayed up and drove through the night! It ended up being a 12 hour journey.

The fog was horrible! This is what I would wake up to almost every time I woke up. It got to be too bad and Scott stopped at a rest stop and we took a few hours to nap in the car. (If you're thinking, that picture doesn't show anything...you're wrong...that's exactly what it looked like from inside the car).

We finally made it to Scott's parent's house and got ready for the day. Did some shopping and got to hang out with his parents and brother. 

We celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve since we would have to leave early Christmas morning to drive home to Seattle so that Scott could get to work on Wednesday. 

Scott's parents spoiled us, and Scott got a surprise I had told him I wasn't going to get him. I was so excited to give it to him! He was one happy boy. 

We went out and looked at Christmas lights. 

Christmas morning we woke up and got the car packed up. I had put together a little bag of small stocking type gifts for us to open every hour or two of the drive. There was another storm so we had to get going early. The roads were pretty bad for the first while. We ended up driving through Portland because the Washington passes were so bad, and we didn't want to have to use the tire chains if we didn't have to. It took us about 11.5 hours, with no nap stops. 

We were ready to get home to our new Wii we got for Christmas.

And of course to our Christmas Gorilla. 

Friends in Seattle

A few weekends ago, some of our friends came to visit! Jevan and Amy came for a night, and we ate at Red Robin then went to the Space Needle, which we obviously have to bring everyone that visits to. It was really cold, so we mostly stayed in the gift store :)

I found this cool postcard that I thought would look neat framed. 

Stuart met us at the Space Needle. 

The next day we went to Pike Place Market, which is where the gum wall is.

And to the Fremont Troll, which is where Stuart almost got left when Scott started to drive away without him in the car. 

We got some good Greek food from a little place in our neighborhood, and then, unfortunately Jevan and Amy had to leave :( 

Scott and I were bad hosts, so we left Stuart all by himself and went to Scott's company Christmas Party where I met lots of people Scott works with and took pictures in a photobooth they had set up. 

There was a live band who thought they were way hott, and a nice dinner and open bar. We, took advantage of the open bar to get some special drinks made for us. Scott asked for "The Best non-Alcoholic Drink", and we were given a concoction of pineapple juice, orange juice, grenadine, sprite, and a cherry. It was pretty good, we each had a couple which made people stop asking us if we were going to get something to drink. Around 10:30 or so, everyone was drunk enough to make it only fun if you're drunk too, so we left and went for a nice drive around West Seattle, where we saw a house with tons of Christmas lights.

It was so great to have friends over and get to re-explore our new city that we are in love with.