5 Years Together!!!

We celebrated 5 years of marriage this past week!!! We have both commented on how it feels like we've been together forever, and we can't imagine life without "us". For our anniversary, my sweet husband planned a two-night getaway to a nice hotel up in the mountains and it was wonderful!!! He knows me soooo well, and knew that at almost 6 months pregnant, it was time to get his hot (literally) mama out of the city and into some cooler temps!

For all of you fellow Kansans, it was like getting to flee the summer heat of Kansas for Colorado! (only we have a LOT more humidity here, and only A/C in certain rooms of the house, excluding THE KITCHEN and bathrooms, and public transportation doesn't have A/C, plus we do a good bit of walking . . . sorry, end of whining). Anyway my man planned to take me away from all of that to a really nice hotel up in the ski-resort area of our country. We actually accidentally skied down a run to this resort last winter, only to find out that it is a private lift back up, only for hotel guests (which is kind of an inconvenient time to learn such information, after you have skied down what i nicknamed "the hill of death"). After a short break and an expensive bottle of water that we shared four ways at the lodge, the lift guy was nice enough to let us ride the lift back out of the area to the public areas for the ordinary folks.

So . . . matt took me to that resort for our anniversary get-away! As we drove out of the city up and up and up, the temperature dropped steadily until it was about 20 degrees cooler up on the mountain!!! We drove around with our windows down and i even wore a sweater one evening as we strolled around the hotel grounds!! For this constantly sweaty and overheating woman, it was a DREAM!!! There were a few times I got a little nervous because I couldn't seem to catch my breath (the air sure is thinner up there), but it was totally worth it!

When we arrived in our room we were initially disappointed b/c our room was pretty small with a very uninspiring view (and let me just say that during the summer, because of all of the tourists from all over the MEast and the world, hotel rooms are CRAZY expensive EVERYWHERE around here, so matt had forked out some cash for this little room that was practically in the basement) and matt was real disappointed and felt we were being WAY overcharged for the room. BUT, it all turned for the better when we realized that our room rate included not just a huge (and delicious) breakfast buffet, but also a second meal, either lunch or dinner, for each night that we stayed! We only had to eat out one meal the whole time we were there and the shower had AMAZING water pressure, there was a great pool that matt swam in twice (he LOVES to swim) and I swam with him once. We laid around and watched TV and read and it was a wonderful way to celebrate our anniversary.

Right after we got back into town we had a Dr's appointment and got to see our little Maya swimming and dancing around, healthy as a horse, so it was a great end to our weekend away, looking at what our marriage has produced and generally being in awe at all that it has meant to us (and hopefully to others) these past 5 years!!!