A Weekend Away...

       Corey and I (like so many others) were married over Christmas Break while we were going to college.  Of course when you're planning your wedding you don't think about the date that will be your anniversary for forever!  At least I didn't.  Suffice it to say, we almost never celebrate our anniversary beyond a kiss, a note...nothing too big.  We're usually at Corey's parents cabin...with his whole family. It's one of my favorite family traditions and I wouldn't change it.  So we usually say "we'll celebrate in the summer" or something similar to that, but we never do. 

     This year I was determined that we would celebrate our anniversary and it was awesome!  It began with this....

Thirteen roses for our thirteen years together from a very sweet husband of mine!

     My parents came over and we were off for the weekend.  A big shout out to my parents who always make us feel like we're doing them a favor by leaving our kids with them...THANKS MOM AND DAD!!

     We started off with dinner.  Corey had gone to this cool pizza place about a month ago and was excited to take me there.  It's called the Rusted Sun Pizza & it was scrumptious!  It's very small and you  can watch the guys there throwing dough and making your dinner. If you plan on going be sure to get a buffalo chicken calzone with blue cheese crumbles...we loved it! 

   Then we headed over to the Brad Paisley concert.  Can I just say...I love country music!  He had great openers too.  Scottie McCreery was first off and wowed all the teenage girls around us.  He has a great voice and was very fun to listen to.  Then "The Band Perry" came out.  They're one of my favorites and put on  a great show!  Corey was laughing at me singing every word to their songs and loving it all so much.  And then there was Brad.  Wow!  Everything was so BIG!  He put on an amazing show!  Every song he sang was it's own production with lights, animation, video, etc.  He went through at least six guitars, one of which he signed and gave away to a lucky person near the stage.  Corey's little brother had told us what a great guitar player he is and he really is! 

     Scottie McCreery and The Band Perry came out and sang a song each with him which was really fun.  Then he started to sing "Remind Me," his duet with Carrie Underwood and the crowd went wild when we could see her walk on stage.  The rest of the night Corey was trying to convince me that she wasn't really there, that it was some sort of illusion or recording.  I thought he was crazy until I googled it....totally a hologram!  Seriously looked real....amazing. 

     We'd planned on staying our first night at the cabin, but Corey got a hotel close by, a very thoughtful surprise.  On Saturday we just hung out together, did a little shopping and a little eating.  That afternoon we checked into the Grand America Hotel.  It's a very beautiful and very fancy hotel!  I took pictures of our room because it was so pretty!  Here is our suite....

 

The bathroom was my favorite!  You can't really tell but the tub is super deep.....we're gonna consider that on our bathroom remodel this spring!

Corey's actually sleeping in the bed in this picture.  It's funny how I dream about sleeping in almost daily and then when I get a chance to I'm up and ready to go at seven-thirty...oh well.

 The courtyard view outside of our hotel balcony

City and County Building

The courtyard by day...

     After we checked in we changed into our work-out clothes for a run.  We ran around the city and county building, the library and ended up at a place called Euro-treasures.  I'm so sad we didn't have the camera or even a phone because it was such a fun, crazy & interesting place.  It's a warehouse of antique....stuff.  They have tons of chairs, tables, desks, night stands along with a stuffed lion, half a rhinoceros (I thought of you Harrises!), an elephant foot and more.  We probably spent an hour just looking. 

The only picture I got of us together on our weekend was right after our run.

    For dinner that night we went to Sugarhouse BBQ.  It was really great!  Another place we'd recommend if you like Barbecue.  They've been rated best barbecue in Utah for the past thirteen years!  Pretty impressive. 

Then we got some junk food and headed back to the hotel to watch the Jazz vs. Jimmer game. 

    The finale to our fabulous weekend was the yummy and fancy breakfast buffet at the Grand.  It included smoked salmon, blintzes with berry sauce, fresh fruit, croissants, brie, etc.  In other words...yum.   

     Happy Anniversary Babe!  I had a great time celebrating with you this weekend!  Maybe we could do it again...you know, next year!