Our 5 Year Anniversary

At the end of July Clay and I celebrated 5 years of marriage. Our sweet friends, Rick and Lynette Driggers, agreed to keep our boys so we could enjoy a weekend get away. We celebrated close so we could come back to town for a wedding of some good friends that Saturday. Even though this blog is about Noah and Jude, I thought I'd share a little post about their mom and dad. And this weekend was about them, too. This was the first weekend away from me for Jude and Noah has only been away two other times, so this was a celebration of sorts for them as well.

We brought the boys to the Driggers on Friday morning and headed to Dallas. We ate a cajun lunch at Gators. We weren't too impressed with the food, but enjoyed being together. Our favorite thing was just walking around downtown with no stroller or bags or sippy cups to worry about. It was such a treat!

Next we went to the JFK Museum. I know it sounds like we are totally nerdy, but we live this close and have never been. It's definitely not a kid-friendly place. Few people realize that JFK was shot in Dallas and was shot out of this very building. There is even several Xs on the road the mark where his car was when we was shot. The museum was really interesting and we were glad to get that experience.

That night we took our time getting ready and didn't have any schedule of eating at a particular time or any bedtime to have to adhere to. Our friends, The Sanks, recommended a lovely restaurant called Margarita Grill. It is a delicious Mexican eatery in the middle of Mockingbird Station, a really fun entertainment district of Dallas. We enjoyed some yummy fajitas that we could not finish. We have vowed to take another trip there before we move and share a plate of bacon-wrapped shrimp fajitas!

Our waitress told the manager it was our anniversary and they brought out this yummy chocolate dessert!

Afterwards we went to the movies and enjoyed sleeping in until 9:00 the next morning!!!!

On Saturday we went to see our friends, Mike and Marci, get married. It was a beautiful wedding. We enjoyed the reception without having to chase kids. Our friend, Ginger, was the photographer for the wedding. She snapped this picture of us at the reception.

When we left the reception we went to dinner at Pappadeaux's and ordered a movie in the room. Sunday morning we drove to church to pick up our boys who we missed very much.

We enjoyed our time away, but are so thankful for the family God has given us. Our boys make life so much fun and are huge blessings!