Makin' Plans

When Cody and I got married we both decided to not rush into having kids because we wanted "us" time for a bit. We met fairly young, around 20, and would have loved to run off and gotten married then but we both wanted to do it right. Since we were so young, we dated longer than we wanted to but we decided one of us needed to finish college first. So when we finally got married it was pretty awesome and we decided we would be on the 5 year plan for kiddos. We wanted to come and go as we pleased, go hang out with friends when we wanted and just enjoy each others' company for as long as we could and we had so much more to learn about each other that we couldn't have learned living apart. We have had many weekend getaways together, some more eventful than others!

Our first romantic weekend away as a married couple, other than our honeymoon, we went to the smokey mountains and stayed in a cabin. Let's just say it wasn't the best! It poured all the way up the 90 degree incline to the cabin and once we got there Cody's truck just died and we had NO cell phone service at all! It was super late when we got there, pouring down rain, so we decided to just go to sleep and worry about the truck in the morning. I had nightmares all night seeing stuff and waking Cody up every 10 minutes freaking out about something! haha We laugh about that now! Somehow we managed to get a tow truck up there and somehow he managed to get Cody's truck off the mountain and we ended up staying in a piece of a motel next to the car shop waiting for someone to fix our truck. At the time it didn't seem at all like a great weekend, but on the way home we talked about all the fun we had and what a great time we had. We have half that trip on camera and it's pretty funny to watch.

Our first 4th of July getaway trip was to Lake Oconee when we lived in Georgia. That's the weekend we decided to move back to Texas. We didn't know anybody but had an awesome time trying to find something to do that we ended up upon Zac Brown Band's CD release party right on the lake! This was in 2007 when no one knew who he was and we fell in love with them!

Many weekends hidden away at our honeymoon suite and not wanting to leave the room because our bed was THAT COMFORTABLE!

Many weekends hidden away at a 5 star hotel thanks to priceline when we really couldn't afford our honeymoon suite again, lol

We have had so many wonderful little getaways that it's hard to remember them all. Maybe we could squeeze in a couple more before...........

this little bundle of goodness joins us in December! Even though we threw the 5 year plan in the trash a few years ago and decided to begin trying FOREVER ago, this seems like perfect timing to us!