Babymooooooning!

We are back at the penny-pinching as we get ready to build on our property, so we decided to do a one-night babymoon and make sure to leave earlier in the day and then not get home til later the next day and it was awesome! Sometimes i think staying the second night makes the one full day we have a little boring and we tend to just go on our phones, etc. but this time we were so intentional <3 of course, I feel like all of our trips have had something go wrong lately- like we have had to kind of fight to make them happen. This time, it was a  whole bunch of snow. we had to leave a little later than we had hoped because we were nervous driving and your mom was encouraging us to wait a week (when the cousins would be spending the night- ya right! That is another vacation in and of itself!) We stopped by the golfito and mulled over remodeling the labor camp and living there someday HAHA we are kind of ridiculous to even consider these types of things. Then we stopped to get gas and were on our way. We stopped in McMinnville and took a pic in front of the Grand Ballroom. And then we found some adorable little restaurant and shared an amazing salad and sandwich and a piece of pie. And played cards before the food came! I felt pretty bad because i had a nasty cough and was hacking pretty good- haha that was another thing that almost made our trip not happen. We worked hard not to get sick this year but i ran out of ningxia and pretty quick got hit with a nasty nasty cold. Anyway, then we drove off to depoe bay but stopped by a goodwill and the outlets first. You found some cool giant hula-hoop things you were excited about for the first tee and i spent a good amount of time at Carters and Gymboree looking for baby boy clothes and deals for size 6/7 for Johanna. I was specifically looking for a newborn outfit, but after buying one we decided it would be better to just do naked/wrapped in a swaddle blanket for baby boy and returned it haha. I did find some adorable matchy matchy dresses for the girls at Gymboree that we can use for the newborn photos and hopefully Christmas <3 You sat in your car and let me shop haha. Then we made our way to the little downtown and thought maybe we saw a pod of whales swimming by, but i am pretty sure i was just really hoping! But there were quite a few little white spouts of water- maybe fish? You tried some smoked salmon you raved about and we found a little restaurant that overlooked the water and you got a beer and we played a game! Then off to dinner at a little thai place and we were the only ones there for a long time. The waiter was mr. chatty and he was all talking about how he is an entrepreneur and owns several businesses and his wife runs the restaurant on the weekends but he does during the week. And his wife and her best friend wanted to open the restaurant and he agreed to finance it as long as he was 100% owner and got to make all the decisions without waiting on a consensus. You were getting so annoyed at him hahaha.  Finally got checked in and it was such an incredible view from our hotel room! But wow so cold. So we watched the sunset from our room and set up Orleans (Or-leons?) and you taught me- it was actually pretty fun. I have a hard time committing to learning new games because they take so long to learn, but this was perfect because there was nothing else to distract :) i left the windows slightly open so we could hear the ocean waves. We went hot tubbing- there was one other couple in the hot tub and it was clearly too small for all 4 of us so when we got in they pretty much had to get out hahah. and i ate ice like no one’s business (pregnancy cravings)! We slept pretty great and i even slept in til 7. Got up and took a bath and listened to a podcast to try to let you sleep in. then we made our hotel room coffee and looked over the ocean! We went for a little walk down to the hotel access beach and grabbed a few rocks for our girlies. And then we went out for breakfast. We totally talked a lot about maybe using the other trailer and letting your sister build on our property because she was more ready than us… now here we are a few weeks later maybe keeping our trailer on our own property hahaha why is it so hard to know what to do?! We left pretty quickly back to the outlets to return the clothes and then back to McMinnville! You and your siblings gifted your parents 2 nights at a hotel and they couldn’t make the date and we were trying to bump it up but your mom was watching the girls and it got stressful for a minute thinking we would have to rush home and miss our 2nd day. But your brother offered to take the girls! So we thought about getting ice cream and both workers were just staring at me so i felt so uncomfortable. Eventually i got a hazelnut milk mocha and it was amazing. And you got a beer at McMenamins and we played Orleans again! And shared some tater tots. And another beer. It was so fun to just enjoy each other. We kept commenting how much fun we were having and how much we enjoy each other’s company. Wow such a great reminder. I love you so much! And i am sorry that life gets so busy and there are always little humans stressing me out and demanding our attention and that we didn’t get years and years of just each other before entering parenthood. But i wouldn’t change it. Every time i get away with you, i am reminded how much fun i have with you and how much i loved dating you. And it is so good! You are so perfect for me! I think we have another 3-4 years of being “in the thick of it” with pregnancy, newborns, needy/messy toddlers, etc. but there is kind of a hazy light at the end of the tunnel finally- our kids won’t always demand so much and we will have the time to connect this way again even at home, not just on vacations! I am so thankful to do life! I wish we could do this every single month. And i think we agreed if we can do just one night to keep it cheap but get most of the day before and after, we should do this 4ish times a year! We will see how that goes with another newborn coming in 5 weeks. But i guess babies are pretty easy to travel with? Haha yeah… right. Anyway, i sure enjoyed our time getting away and just loving on each other. You are so easy to love. You make me so happy. And i can’t wait to do it again <3 <3 we listened to a murder podcast on the way home and then i went to get the girls and back to our wonderful life. *cheers* to a wonderful babymoon! I think the best one yet <3 <3 <3