You're leaving the baby behind...right?!

Last Friday I came home from work to find a sweet little card from my husband with an anniversary surprise: We were headed to Portland (our favorite city) for our 2 year wedding anniversary! An over night trip....by ourselves...without Vienna........ Would I go for it?! He wasn't sure, poor guy. He'd been planning and coordinating the details with my mom for a month and a half, to make sure I'd be comfortable with our little get-a-way. My first reaction was "WOOHOO! FUN!" and then I asked if we could just look for a hotel in Olympia that we could stay at for the night. Like the sweetheart he is, agreed and said I could start looking. But I decided against it. It was ONLY an hour or so away, my mom was going to stay AT our house so Vienna would have all her goods...*sigh* I needed to be strong.

So for all of last week, I talked myself into be really excited. I was looking forward to Saturday ALL week...of course a little piece of me didn't want to leave Vienna behind, but I know that Taylor and I both needed some time to ourselves. All I kept talking about all week was how I was looking forward to sleeping ALL night! :-) haha Taylor kept making fun of me as that isn't necessarily what he had in mind- LOL

My mom arrived yesterday, we gave her the loooooong list of instructions of how to care for a baby overnight (as if she had never had children before) gave our Miss a kiss and headed to Ptown.

Nana & Vienna sleepover!

Headed to Portland!

Secret: Taylor didn't want to leave Vienna behind...he said "When we get back, she'll be walking!" She really has been growing up so fast lately! Rolling over, sitting up, standing, sleeping in her own room....ugh!

I called the hotel earlier in the week and asked to add the romance package to our room. Champagne and chocolates...yummm!

At the hotel lounge picking up our complimentary beer/wine!

When we walked into the lounge to redeem our complimentary beverages, there was a giant group of gals there all dolled up with a bachelorette. In honor of celebrating OUR anniversary and reminiscing about our special day, I suggested we order her a shot. The bartender took it over to her, told her it was from us and she was SO excited! LOL It was cute. When Taylor went to redeem his last coupon for a beer the bartender upgraded the size for free! Woot for Taylor!

Arriving at the Rogue- our favorite (more pics babe?!)

Taster Tray: Juniper PA, Mocha Porter, Chocolate Stout and Irish Lager

Tryin' the Mocha Porter



Sexy!

Chocolate Stout...Yum!



Taylor's new van!



Taylor's pizza and my halibut and chips! So delicious!

Bacon Maple Ale: Taylor wanted to try it but because there are real bits of bacon in it, they can't have it on tap- so he bought a bottle to bring home- sounds disgusting! I loved the pink bottle!

Love Birds

Getting ready to face time with Vienna

I'm so thankful to have facetime! How did parents ever go without it?! I feel so fortunate to have the technologies we have today...We were able to say good night to our sweet face-to-face! Amazing! Unfortunately once we were done, I had a bit of a melt-down and just wanted to go home. Taylor convinced me to stay..but it was tough! Who knew it'd be so difficult to be away from our Sweetums?!

Missing Vienna and PO'd Taylor was taking a picture of me CRYING! HAHA

We rented 21 Jump Street but I fell asleep probably 20 minutes into it. It was absolutely amazing to get such SOUND sleep! It was just what the doctor ordered for this Mama.
     Side note/confession: I was sooooo lazy and sleeping soooooo good that when I woke up in the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep on my side or stomach because of some extreme engorgement: I didn't even care. I just slept on my back and didn't pump (except once when we got to the hotel). Boy oh boy did I regret that at 8am! Just call me Dolly...but Dolly in tears! I found relief after pumping 15 ounces! Ouchie!!

Check-out was at 1pm, but we decided we wanted to be HOME by 1pm so I could feed Vienna instead of Nana giving her a breast milk bottle. We hit up breakfast at the hotel which was a buffet style. We (Taylor) took some of EVERYTHING! It was "free" so why the heck not?! We both had pretty good stomach aches from all the junk we ate over our 24 hour vacation- but what's vacation without junk food!?



Forget continental breakfasts! Bring on the buffet/cafeteria style breakfast of champions!

We were really impressed with the breakfast- for how cheap the room was, we really scored on the amenities!

Our first overnighter without Vienna was so fabulous! We had such a nice time being husband and wife instead of mommy and daddy. We both are in love with being mommy and daddy, but we were reminded of roles as husband and wife and the importance of maintaining those roles.

A big thanks to Nana for taking care of Vienna! We are so grateful!

Happy Anniversary (tomorrow) to my sweet husband! I love you more and more each day and am so thankful you chose ME to be your wife. Thank you for the much needed R&R and for our sweet baby girl. We truly have it all!!!

Friday, August 13th, 2010