Anniversary Weekend

On Dec. 20th, Mr. J and I celebrated our 6th anniversary! Due to the proximity to Christmas and Miss O's birthday, we have only been able to "get away" on one other anniversary. This year, thanks to my wonderful sis and bro, we had another opportunity to. We didn't want to drive too far, but we did want to get out of Vegas, so we chose a smaller city in southern Utah called St. George. It's north of the base about an hour and a half and there is no bad traffic to drive though (if we would of picked some place south of us, it would have taken a good hour to get all the way through Vegas traffic)! We left around 11 am on Friday

We drove Deanna's car so they could have the van and they had it stocked with snacks and our favorite beverages... chocolate milk and starbucks.

We had lunch at Olive Garden and then did a little Christmas shopping for the kids at the outlets and Target before checking in to our hotel room. We stayed at the Hampton Inn and it was super nice. For some reason, our reservations got bumped up to the King Honeymoon Suite!! They also discounted out original room rate (maybe because we are military?) so we ended up spending 50 dollars less and getting a really nice room. The customer service was great and we would definitely stay there again.

View of our room from the kitchen area.

Our huge bed, and behind the glass to the left was a huge whirlpool tub!

We drove around a bit to see the beautiful snowy mountains. We also enjoyed a delicious dinner at Red Lobster in St. George. We found the people of St. George that we encountered thought it was kind of funny that we would leave Vegas to come there to get away and do some shopping, because they usually go to Vegas to do that.

The red rock mountains with snow on them were very beautiful.

On Saturday, the 20th, we had breakfast at the Cracker Barrel (their pancakes are delicious!) and then went to the Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum where we got to see "over 300 species over a quarter mile indoor mountain." It was actually really interesting and educational.

When we got home that afternoon, I received a special delivery... roses

Here is an ornament on our tree we got on our first Christmas that we were dating in 1999.

We had a great weekend and I am so happy to be married to such a wonderful man. I pray God gives us 10 times this many years together!