Our Anniversary

Last night was pretty fun and kind of funny so I thought I'd share. It was Justen and my anniversary. We've been married 8 years now. The sad part is we forgot. Nanny called at 4:30 and reminded us. Opps, but it's ok we're going out of town this weekend and already have plans and reservations made. But the funny part came when Justen tried to explain to Garrison what an anniversary was. He said it's the day we celebrate when mom and dad got married. Well, he made one big mistake, he said the word the word, celebrate. Garrison got really excited and proclaimed, "Celebrate! That means we go out to a restaurant! Lets go!" He is totally obsessed with eating at restaurants lately. Last night he decided the hamburger stroganoff we were eating was "fancy food" and that we were at a restaurant. Then when he cleared his plate (and scraped it in the trash) he told us that he was the bus boy at Mommy's restaurant. We didn't have the heart to tell him that we were going out alone this weekend (he knows we're going but we didn't discuss the going out to eat part). So we took him to burger king and used some coupons, I was proud of my coupon accomplishment. For $7 we got a meal to share with an extra burger for me, a happy meal for him, and three mini ice cream cones for dessert. What can I say, I love cheap! And Garrison got to play at the play land. It was a win-win. And after we went freezer shopping, and to home depot to pick some stuff up for the shed Justen is building. It was a really fun night.
Now as for what we have planned for our anniversary, we're both pretty excited. We realized a couple of weeks ago that we have not been anywhere that wasn't for work without Garrison since he was born. We haven't so much as gone to dinner or a movie in 2 1/2 years alone. We decided it was time to get out. So we're going down to Salt Lake for the weekend. We're excited to go see the SLC temple, we've never been to that one. We're excited to go see whatever new movie is showing in the Joseph Smith building. And we're going to go eat at two of my favorite restaurants, Ruby River and Olive Garden. YUM! And Justen really wants to take one of the horse drawn carriage rides around temple square, neither of us have ever done that so it should be fun. Oh, and a big thanks to Grandma, Nanny and Morgan who have it all worked out to take care of Garrison for the weekend so we can go! It's a long overdue vacation for us.