13 YEARS!

Totally feelin the love this weekend. We celebrated our 13th anniversary Saturday. This is a pic from our engagement:



Steve asked me to marry him at his family Christmas Eve party. Everyone got one gift to open and mine was a gift inside a gift inside a gift etc. until I got a little white box with a ring inside it.

When I look at this picture of us I just remember how I felt in that moment. I was absolutely on cloud nine and so happy that Steve and I were going to be together forever.

And, yes, those were my favorite pants - my DENIM OVERALLS. And it was Christmas Eve so what else would I wear with them but my CHRISTMAS WREATH TURTLENECK? hahahaha And one of my other favorites in this picture is the butt cut. Steve sported it throughout the 6 months we dated and our 6 month engagement.

Here's how we celebrated 13 Loooooooong happy years... :)

Little Cottonwood Trail





AH OH - T A C O!! (notice Steve's front wheel...)



And here is how the rest of the ride went for Steve.



After the TACO wreck, the rest of our biking plans for the day were nixed and Barbs was still taking Wyatt til the next morning... so we went to dinner at Market Street and got a lovely table outside by the river (very picturesque!). Steve had crab legs, steak & prime rib! (I ordered for his benefit since I'm neither a seafood or steak girl.) Then we went to a movie and after to Red Robin for Mud Pie. The Mud Pie totally reminds us of "the early years" b/c we used to get them ALL THE TIME when we were first married - but it had been a looooooong time.

So I've been thinking and its crazy how awesome this anniversary was for me. Is it just a case of low expectations? (My mantra lately has been - "High expectations are such troublemakers.") I don't know but the simple things like sharing one of our favorite hobbies together (mountain biking), getting an awesome meal together and reminiscing about all the good things that we've been through over 13 years together and especially having Steve to myself (alone) for over 24 hours that totally hit the spot for me this year. I love Steve. Life has been quite the ride for us so far.

Speaking of the early years...



And (hopefully) this will be us in the later years... :) don't ya just love these two? :)