May Celebrations!

Our first celebration in the month of May was of course Mother's Day.  What an emotional day (especially for a pregnant woman).  I love having a day to reflect on the women that have made such an impact in my life.  Also, being a mother on Mother's Day just add's to all the emotions! I LOVE being a mom with all of my heart and couldn't be more thankful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with such an amazing gift.  

 

Jayson and Paislee spoiled me rotten on Mother's Day.  I must share one gift they gave me because I am SERIOUSLY excited about it and every expectant mother or mommy with a little one NEEDS this.  It is the Adelaide nursing nightgown. The second I saw this night gown I lusted over it. haha the material is simply divine! It really is the most comfortable, light weight nightgown I have ever felt.  I know I will be living in this thing for months after this baby is born. It has nursing pad inserts and I can't imagine a more comfortable thing to wear those first weeks when you are recovering after having a baby.  Seriously AMAZING! You need one...

Our next celebration this month was Jayson and I's 4 year anniversary! What!? 4 years already!? Holy smokers that boggles my mind.  We take turns each year planning what we'll do and this year was my year to plan.  I love planning surprises for Jayson and I'm glad everything worked out so well. He managed to sneak in a surprise for me when he came home from work with these beauts...You sly dog you!

 We started the night off with a yummy dinner at one of our fav's, Rodizio Grill. Jayson was pleasently surprised!

After dinner we had some extra time to kill so we walked around Trolly Square and then had a "Yatzee off" in the car.  "Yatzee off" is what we call it when we both pull out our phones and play Yatzee.  We get seriously competitive and secretly want to punch each other when the other yells "YATZEE!!!!" Happy to say I got like 4 Yatzee's and he got 0...haha Boo yeah grandma!

 After killing a little bit of time we went and had a couples 90 minute massage at Massage Envy.  I had a girl who specializes in pre-natal massages and let me tell you... It was amazing! It is crazy how hard pregnancy can be on your body and getting to have someone massage you for 90 minutes was seriously heaven.
Can you tell how relaxed we were afterwards from this picture?

After the massage we went to Armstrong Mansion and stayed in the Februrary room.  My girlfriends and I lived next to the mansion our first year of college and ever since then I have been DYING to stay in this room.  It is such a cute room, with a spiral staircase that leads to a jacuzzi tub which is located right at the point of the mansion. 

The room has such cute charm to it.  It lived up to all my expectations :) The romance package added alot too! haha I couldn't help but think of Marianne (one of my bffs) who used to work there when we lived next door and would tell us about setting up these romance packages for couples :) haha good memories!

The night was perfect and we ended it by cuddling up to "We Bought a Zoo" and eating Reese's, sour patch kids and Junior mints.  The next morning we ate breakfast which was SO yummy.  Seriously, best bed and breakfast meal i've ever had at a bed and breakfast.  We then packed up and we went to City Creek for some shopping and to let Jayson see it since he had never been before.

The perfect end to our date was going to pick Paislee up at Lanny's house and spending a couple hours there swimming and enjoying the weather. 

It was so nice having Jayson all to myself for a whole day/night! I know it might be awhile till we have a little gettaway like this with just the two of us with a newborn coming so it couldn't have been more perfect timing.

I feel so blessed that I get to be married to Jayson forever.  I always fantasized growing up what my future husband would be like and all the amazing qualities he would have.  I am so lucky I found him (technically my mom and sister found him haha) because he exceeds everything I ever hoped for in a partner and marriage.   I feel so blessed to have such a great marriage and to have had a great marriage the last four years.  While at dinner we couldn't help but talk about how we know our marriage is as good as it is because of the gospel and being members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Having the gospel principals as the main focus in our family and relationship I know without a doubt in my mind is why we are so happily married.  I've heard from many how hard marriage is, but honestly marriage for us has been easy and I know it is because of those principals of the gospel and the covenants we made when we were sealed forever in the Salt Lake Temple May 15, 2008.

Jayson is perfect for me and I am perfect for him. Match made in heaven!