Happy Anniversary

Jake and I celebrated our 1-year anniversary this weekend. I can't believe we've been married a year! It seems like it was just yesterday that I was moping up in Utah while my fiance stayed in Arizona. And at the same time I feel like we've been married forever (in a good way). It's hard to remember what life was like before we were married. Jake is the absolute best husband I could ever ask for. He is the most kind, caring, hard working, dedicated person I know. We have so much fun together and he is my best friend. Happy Anniversary Babe! For our anniversary Jake took me to the Buttes Resort. It was really nice and we had a great time. It was so fun being treated like "fancy" people. The workers there were so nice and were always offering their help with whatever we needed. We soaked it up because I'm sure from now on we'll probably only be staying at Motel 6's. Anyway, here's a picture of our hotel room:
This was on our bed. The chocolate covered strawberries were so yummy. There was a bottle of wine, but seeing as how I'm pregnant and we don't drink alcohol anyway they brought us a nice chilled bottle of sparkling cider. Mmmm.
There was a little lookout point that we climbed up to at night and this was the beautiful view we had. The picture doesn't do it justice, but it was beautiful seeing all of the city lights. This is a picture of the hotel's restaurant at the top of the butte. They had the best breakfast buffet there- not like a normal continental breakfast. They had everything you could possibly want. Made fresh, right when you order.
This was the "sky bridge" that connected all the hotel rooms to the lobby and restaurant.

There were beautiful waterfalls everywhere. It was amazing to me how everything was just built right into the butte. Jake loved all the waterfalls and had a good eye for finding them all.

We had a lot of fun at the pool too. It was very nice. There were two huge pools with a little channel connecting the two. Then there were jacuzzis further up on the butte. It was beautiful.

Jake's favorite part of the pool was this little window where you could see people in the pool. Jake said it made him feel like the dolphins in an aquarium. I just have to explain this picture. Probably the most unflattering picture ever taken in my life, but I couldn't help but put it up- Medusa hair and all. It's just so funny! And Jake loved it so much. So excuse the not so pretty picture, but just humor me and say it's funny.
After our stay at the Buttes Jake took me to Massage Envy to get massages. I'd never had a massage before so I was pretty excited. We were there a little early and were waiting until our appointment time. After awhile of waiting Jake just started giggling. I asked him what was so funny and he said he was just thinking about how he was afraid he was going to laugh during the massage. Then he started getting kind of nervous- I guess he didn't like the idea of another woman touching his body (I'm glad he doesn't like that idea :) ). I was trying to calm him and tell him that it was going to be relaxing and help his back, but then SHE walked out. A woman with red frizzy hair, a little on the larger side, and I swear I could hear her cracking her knuckles. "Jacob..." she said in a sultry voice. Jake slowly stood up as the woman shot out her hand for a shake. "Nice to meet you," Jake politely said. "You too," the woman replied. "My name is Tiger Lilly." Bah! Ha ha ha ha! Her name is what? Isn't that the Indian princess's name on Peter Pan? Jake turned around and gave me a look like "help me." All I could do was wave and say "see you in an hour sweetie!" Anyway, needless to say all I could think about during the first 10 minutes of my massage was how Jake had a masseuse named Tiger Lilly! All in all it was a good experience. I really enjoyed my massage and felt so relaxed when it was finished. Jake was so sweet to think of it. Thanks honey!
Then we went to Carrabba's for dinner. Mmmm- it was so delicious! I highly recommend the Chicken Marsala. You can tell from the picture that we were both pretty tuckered out from a fun-filled weekend. Thanks again Jake-o. You're the best!