Last Saturday, April 14, Brody and I celebrated 5 years of marriage!!  It feels like our wedding day was just yesterday, but at the same time it also feels like we've been together forever.  These last 5 years have been amazing and I can't imagine my life without Brody.  He is such a great husband and we always have so much fun together.  I can't wait to see what the next 5 years (and many more beyond that) will bring.

To celebrate, we spent the entire day in Denver.

We started off by visiting the Red Rocks Amphitheater.  This is the main venue in Denver for all the big bands and musicians and although we didn't get to see anyone perform, it was still a pretty neat place to see.  The venue is completely outdoors and is located in a beautiful location in the mountains.  That morning, there was a cross-fit training group doing a huge work out session on the steps of the amphitheater.  They were doing some pretty intense stuff (like crawling up the whole thing on all fours- backwards) I thought that would be a great place to get a good workout.



After that, we headed to a park for a picnic lunch.  It was such a nice day (at that time) and there were tons of people out and about.

Our next stop was to Hammond's Candy Store for a free tour.  I found this place online, where it sounded a lot more interesting than it really was.  It was still a cute, old fashioned type candy store, and we got some free candy at the end.  Worth it enough for me!

We then went to the Denver Aquarium.  Now, let me preface this by saying that I don't normally go to just any aquarium- most of them are so similar to each other and a lot of them aren't that great.  However, ever since moving to Fort Collins in August, we've heard from countless people that the Denver Aquarium is worth seeing.  After about the 10th person giving it a great review (and getting zero bad reviews), we decided to go.  And boy were they right!  There were so many cool/out-of-the-ordinary things including: sea otters, paranas, sharks, sting rays, a scuba-diver hand feeding some large fish and even a mermaid! (Yeah, they really had a lady dressed as a mermaid swimming through the water. ha!)

Is that top left picture not the weirdest/creepiest thing you've ever seen??? It's the underside of a sting ray.

At the end, we got this surprise
Tigers! Kind of a random thing to see at an aquarium, but still cool.

After the Aquarium, we headed to the 16th street mall to just walk around and check out some shops.  By this time, the gray clouds had started to roll in, which we were expecting (thanks to weather.com) so we stopped by the car to grab our rain jackets, rain boots and umbrella.  I'm so glad that the weather held off until the end of the day, but we had come prepared just in case, determined not to let bad weather ruin our day.  However.  Rain boots are only comfortable for so long.  And we did a lot of walking up and down 16th street, so in the end, I decided it would be less painful to just walk barefoot than wear my rain boots any longer, so that's what I did!

We ended the day with dinner at Macaroni Grill (this might be a new tradition, since we ate there last year as well- their bread is to die for!)


It was a fabulous, fun-filled day!!

Spring Break
Back in March, Brody had a whole week off school.  I still had to work, so we didn't do anything fun, but Brody however, did something amazing during spring break.... he cooked dinner for me.  Every night!  And they were amazing dinners too- like chicken fettuccine alfredo with homemade bruscetta!  It was awesome.


General Conference
We spent most of the day on Sunday at our friends parents house (who live here in Fort Collins).  We watched both the morning and afternoon sessions there, and in between, his mom made an amazing meal and we had fun checking out all the animals on their ranch.  I love General Conference weekend and this one did not disappoint.

Easter
For Easter, me and Nicole planned and made the most delicious dinner.  (I forgot to get a picture, but trust me, it was amazing!)  We also dyed eggs with Coy and Suzie the night before.  It's been a while since I've done that, but it was a lot of fun.  I very much enjoyed eating Cadbury Eggs all week (my favorite) and focusing on the resurrection of our Savior.

We went rock climbing this last Saturday- outside!  I've only been once in the last 2 years, so I was very excited.  There's a great spot right by Horsetooth Reservoir (which reminds me a lot of Pineview in Ogden Valley).  We brought Sal and the 3 of us had a great time.







We've never really done a lot for April Fool's, but this year, we were introduced to a great new tradition.  On Sunday night (April 1st), our friends invited us over for dinner... only it wasn't a normal dinner.  We were given a menu and got to pick what we wanted and the order we wanted it.  But, each item was different than what it was listed as, so some people got dessert first and appetizers last, others got an entree but no fork and so forth.  We also wore mustaches, just to add some more fun! 


It was a great night and I think we'll continue the tradition.