On January 7th, Cory and I celebrated our 8th anniversary! I love being married and I especially love being married to Cory. I couldn't be happier with the life we have built in the last 8 years. I love Cory more than ever and I have always been so grateful that he chose to love me too.
I told the girls it was our anniversary, so they put together a fancy restaurant for Cory and I to dine at that evening. They worked together on it all afternoon and there is no other place I would have rather eaten on that day. :)
Here is the sign at the front of the restaurant. They asked me to write for them, but they came up with the name and what to say! Too cute!
Here was our romantic table setting.
Our awesome menus.
Lily and Ava picked out our clothes. They said it was important that we look our best for the restaurant. Ava took this picture.
We were greeted at the doorway by our waitress and chef.
Lily, the chef, hard at work in the kitchen. And Ava the waitress, putting her face on her serving tray. We pretended not to see such poor hygiene. ;)
Lily was so cute. She wanted to make sure that I could stay sitting the whole time, so she had me write down a step by step process of how to make taco salad. And she did a magnificent job putting it all together.
I mean, does that not look appetizing? Ava did such a good job serving us our food. :) It was so much fun going to Lily and Ava's Romantic Restaurant. We give it a 5 star rating. :)
After dinner we put the kids to bed and had a few of the young women in the ward come over and baby sit while we went to a movie. It was great! It was a wonderful anniversary. Here are some pictures from a little slide show I put together for Cory to try and capture the last 8 years.
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Now on to 2014! Can't wait to see what this year, and many more have in store for us! I love you, Cory! Thanks for sharing and building a life with me. It's been a good 8 years! We've been very blessed.
P.S. The next morning I went outside and found this note written in sidewalk chalk from Lily. You can't really read it, but the thought was nice. It says things like, happy anniversary and I love you and stuff like that. She is a very sweet girl.
