Surprises

My husband spoils me.  We had planned a trip to Arches on a weekend that happened to coincide with our anniversary weekend, and the actual DAY of our anniversary was on the following Monday.  Yesterday.  When Dale came home from work, he surprised me with:

Then a trip to Home Depot to pick out a new pet for us:


(I get really attached to my plants.  When the last one died I was TRULY distraught.  This one is named Phil II--Short for chloraphyl II.  The first Phil died when I left him outside on a snowy night.)

Then a toast to us back at the park where we had our first date in September 2008, and where Dale proposed back in February 2009.

While we were there, Dale suprized me with ANOTHER gift!  He bought me a soundtrack that makes my heart melt--How to Train Your Dragon--and then used it as the background music for a 16 minute slide show he had made of our adventures together in the last two years.  The whole compilation was really nice.  It had pictures of us exploring Los Angeles and Montana--where our families are--but also pictures from our trips to Las Vegas, Alaska, Wyoming, England, and local sites here in Utah.  We've had a lot of adventures in our two years together.

All of these gifts were tailored specifically to fill comments I'd made in the previous months.  I knew Dale was preparing a series of gift presentations, and when I asked him how he thinks of things to surprise me with, he responded "I listen to things that you say, and I write them down."

I love my husband dearly.