Our 2 Year Anniversary!!

Wow. I can't believe that Rick and I have been married for two whole years! On one hand it seems like we've been married forever but on the other hand it seems like the past two years have just flown by! Probably because a whole lot has happened in these two years. Getting married during the first week of school was crazy! But we waited so that Dawson could be there since he didn't get off his mission until the very, very end of August. So the first week of school it was!

Rick and I sat in class Wednesday night together, the night before we got married! Who does that? Haha. And after sitting through 2.5 hours of class together, we decided to drop the class anyway! Why? Because the teacher was expecting us to read a whole book and right a report by the next week! And that is definitely not what we wanted to be doing on our honeymoon...so we dropped the class and were happy we did! 

September 2, 2010 

This was the day that I married the love of my life! I'm so happy to be married to him!

 I always tease him about how I had had a crush on him for forever and that during our freshman year at BYU, after recently asking me out on a date, he called me again, and I was so excited that maybe he was going to ask me out again!! But my heart was crushed when had called and asked for my roommates number!!! I don't think I'll ever let him forget that:) It's too funny.

We also think it's kind of funny how I helped one of my friends ask Rick out to a dance in High School. She wanted to go to the Christmas 'girls ask guys' dance and had recently moved to the area and asked if I knew of any good guys she could take. I told her about Rick and how he was just such a good guy and that I had known him forever and that she should just ask him. Secretly, I was so so sooooo jealous that she was going with him because I really wanted to go with him, however, I was too stubborn and didn't want to have to ask a guy out on my first date after turning sixteen. So she asked him. I got scheduled to work that night at Pier 49 Pizza. And where do you think their dance group went for dinner?! Pier 49 Pizza. And yes, my little jealousy spout erupted all over again. Rick claims that when he saw me that night, serving their dance group their pizza, that he thought that I was really pretty. I guess as pretty as you can get after standing next to an oven and cooking pizza all night! Ha:) We laugh about it now...

...And just for the record, the next year for that same Christmas dance, I asked out Rick Stone!! That was our first date ever and it was perfect!! I kept our dance tickets in my journal and wrote all about how I liked Rick Stone so much and had such a huge crush on him. Little did I know that we would someday end up getting married!! 

It's crazy to look back at our freshman year at college and how we had our Child Development class together....and no, we didn't plan it that way, it was total coincidence. And when I found out that I was going to have a class with Rick Stone at BYU I was super excited! We sat by each other every day and went to devotionals together on Tuesdays after class. We had so much fun together! 

Little did I know that I'd get to have another class with him after his mission! We wrote during his mission and towards the end we started talking about how we would both still be at BYU and he suggested that we should take another class together! My heart was jumping for joy because I still had a major crush for this guy. We decided to sign up for our religion class together. We took New Testament. Again, who knew that we would be married while taking that class during that fall semester?!

It's so fun to just sit here and type all the things that we talk about and reminisce about all the time. I could go on forever and ever but I have to stop sooner or later, so I guess I'll just talk about how we spent our 2 year anniversary!

We kind of just celebrated all weekend long. Our actual anniversary was on Sunday this year, so we decided to just celebrate it on Monday. Especially because I wanted to make Rick breakfast but it turned out to be fast Sunday so I couldn't even to that! Haha...so we just did all the celebrating on Monday.

Anyway, it was a busy but very fun weekend so I'll just start with Friday night. Rick was scheduled to work at the Payson hospital so Kimbri and I planned on spending the evening in Spanish Fork so that my mom and I could go to Joann's Fabric and get some towel material so that I could make Stacie some burp cloths before my mom left for Nebraska for the birth of Dawson and Stacie's baby. Rick ended up getting off super early because the ER was super slow. After finishing up the burp cloths, we made a last minute decision to go see the new Spider Man movie in the Spanish Fork theaters. We had a buy one get one free so it was only like $1.75 for both of us to get tickets! Kimbri was asleep up in my parents room and they let us just leave her there while we went to the movies together! So that turned out to be a fun, unexpected date that we got to go on. After the movies we had a buy one get one free frozen yogurt coupon so we went to Yogurt Bliss after the movies and enjoyed a frozen treat together in the parking lot by Macey's grocery store. 

Saturday nigh we went to The Piano Guys concert. The Piano Guys are Jon Schmidt, the pianist, and Steven Sharp Nelson, the cellist. One of Rick's mission companions, Ee Chien, and Rick had always talked about on their mission that they wanted to go to a Jon Schmidt concert when they got off their missions. Well, the first year they were off their missions we were on our honeymoon during the Thanksgiving Point Jon Schmidt concert and the second year we had a newborn and it just didn't work out. So a couple of months ago Ee Chien got a hold of Rick and asked if we wanted to go this year and we said yes. So we made it a double date. Ee Chien invited a girl from Barcelona, Spain, named Ima, and we all went out to eat at Pier 49 Pizza in Provo and then headed up to Thanksgiving Point for the concert. At Pier 49 Pizza we ordered the dinner for 2 for $16.99. It was really yummy! We got half and half, one side was the Nob Hill (garlic alfredo chicken) and the other side was the Embarcadero (pesto chicken). It also came with a honeybutter and cinnamon dessert pizza and cheesy breadsticks. YUM! Then we headed off to the concert. And it rained like crazy. We looked online and they said the only way it would be cancelled is if there was a thunder storm and to bring ponchos, blankets, etc...

Oh boy. I ended up bringing a huge blanket that Rick and I can easily both wrap up in. Ee Chien said that he would throw a blanket in the back of his car too. Well, his blanket resembled a little baby blanket, or I guess maybe a little bit bigger. Parking was crazy! The lady helping usher said that they sold 4,000 seats to this concert and it was sold out! Because Ee Chien had pre ordered the tickets online for all of us, he ended up getting the reserved seating. And I was so glad he did. Instead of sitting on the grass we got sweet seats, that were actual seats right in the middle of the amphitheater. We couldn't find four seats together in the reserved seating area so Ee Chien and Ima were one row behind us and a few seats down.  So we couldn't spread our big blanket over them. I think they got pretty wet. It didn't rain the whole time but when it did, it poured! But it was still a way fun concert! And Sundee babysat Kimbri for us so a huge thank you to her!! Here are a couple photos I snapped. They turned out a little blurry because it was dark and rainy but here they are:

Jon Schmidt

Steven Sharp Nelson

The Piano Guys doing their rendition of:
"What Makes You Beautiful" - By One Direction

On Sunday, we slept in because Kimbri was nice and slept in. It was a typical Sunday morning. Rick showered while I watched Kimbri, I showered while Rick watched Kimbri and then we gave Kimbri a bath. We got ready for church and took off to the Locust Lane church building. 1pm-4pm church is a little bit hard since Kimbri usually takes a second nap sometime during those hours but it's SO hard for her to fall asleep at church. Occasionally she'll fall asleep on the way but not often. So after sacrament meeting Rick and Kimbri went to Sunday School and Priesthood together. I'm the primary pianist so Rick takes Kimbri with him to class every week so I can do my calling.  I thought for sure she would fall asleep. Since she slept in that morning she didn't need a morning nap so I thought she would be nice and worn out for Rick during the last two hours of church and fall asleep. When church got out I asked if she slept any and I was shocked to here that she did not sleep at all! 

On our way home, it was just soooo hilarious to me to watch Kimbri. She was sucking on her binking, staring into space and I could tell that she was oh so tired. She had to be! I so badly wish I had my camera with me because it was the funniest thing in the world! I wanted to keep her awake until we got home so that we could change her and then put her in her baby car seat, the rear-facing one, so that she could fall asleep and we could just carry her inside when we got to my parents house for dinner. 

Anyway, to make a long story short, she was super drowsy and was finally about to go to sleep but I wanted to keep her awake for the 4-ish minute drive home so I kept saying her name and talking to her but she just couldn't fight it any longer. Her head was bobbing up and down and her eyes were slowly shutting, then peaking back open and then slowly shutting again. It was so hilarious! 

We got home, quickly changed her and put her in her other car seat and she was out! She slept all the way to Spanish Fork and during dinner. We ate an incredible meal that my dad made because my mom is out of town in Nebraska right now. Most everything on our plates for dinner was from the garden. He made corn on the cob, a fresh garden vegetable stir fry, fried rice to go with it, a cucumber and tomato vinnegar dish, and cantaloupe that he grew in the backyard. It was so delicious! Kimbri woke up right as everyone was finishing up so she ate a little and then we had a fun rest of the evening hanging out on the deck outside and just having a relaxing time. My dad made peanut butter oatmeal cookies later on in the evening and they were a hit! Especially with Kimbri, but she seems to love everything, except tomatoes:)

Kimbri stayed up super late that night and I think she ended up falling asleep on our way back to Provo. Because she stayed up so late she slept in until 10:20am!!!! Wow! I couldn't believe the time when I woke up. What a good nights rest that was! Rick is better than me and got up after getting enough sleep but Kimbri and I had a great time sleeping in!! :)

I made french toast and Rick made some orange juice to go along with breakfast. We stuffed ourselves with a delicious breakfast and just lounged around with Kimbri for a while. It was way nice to just be together as a family, playing on the floor with Kimbri, talking and just being together. It was a great way to start out the day for our anniversary celebration! 

Surprisingly, Kimbri went back to sleep only two hours after waking up, even after a super long night of sleep. So Rick and I indulged and watched a couple episodes of Psych. Kimbri slept for about 2 hours! She must be going through a growth spurt or something. I can't believe how fast our little girl is growing up! 

Anyway, after Kimbri woke up we got ready to go out for our date. We drove Kimbri down to Salem to spend the evening with the Stone's. Another huge thank you to Sundee for babysitting Kimbri so we could go out and celebrate our anniversary!! 

We had planned on going bowling, a favorite activity of ours. We had taken a survey online to get a free game of bowling at Fat Cats. Also, online it said that their .99 per game bowling went through September 3. Perfect! We could do like 3 games of bowling each and rent shoes for only $7 ish.  Well, the lady rings us up and enters our names into the bowling alley and says that it's regular pricing on holidays and that we couldn't use our coupon for a free game on holidays either! What?! So much for that idea. No way were we going to pay nearly $20 for bowling. So we sadly left and decided we'd have to go another time. We did find out that they extended the .99 bowling thing til the end of September so we just had to raincheck that activity. 

We decided to just go out to dinner at Brick Oven. They told us about this special that they were trying out called the Brick Oven Sampler. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet type thing. It comes with garlic bread and garlic sticks, the salad bar, 10 different types of pizza along with dessert pizza! There's a designated waiter that comes around and delivers each type of pizza. Those who have the sampler deal eat on bright green plates so that the waiter knows who to deliver pizza to. We were sold on that idea. I loved the salad bar there and ended up having two plates of salad. Rick had some fruit from the salad bar and I think he tried all the different kinds of pizza. I tried a few different kinds too but my favorite was the garlic chicken! Since it was a Monday night we both got FREE root beer too! 

We were so stuffed by the time we left there. I think I felt extra stuffed since I have a baby inside me too! But either way, we were very, very full and it was a delicious dinner and fun to get to go out for dinner together!

After eating, since our bowling activity got messed up we decided to use or Seven Peaks passes to go up to Trafalga in Orem and do a round of miniature golf. We did the indoor track because it was too hot for me to be outside. There was hardly anyone else there so it was kind of fun to just take our time and have fun together. The final scores = Rick 50 and Alina 47.

Originally we had thought that we would maybe go out for ice cream too, for our anniversary but because we ended up doing an all you can eat deal we were both so stuffed that ice cream just did not sound good at all! So we just headed back to Salem to pick up Kimbri. We sat and visited while Kimbri slept and then headed back home to Provo around 10pm. It was a great night and was so fun to celebrate our first 2 years of marriage! I'm so glad that we have eternity to go!! 

I love you, Rick!