Weekend Getaway

Earlier this month we spent a long weekend away with Erik's family in St. George. We didn't have very good weather and oddly enough, we didn't even do a single thing with the entire family due to children being on different sleep schedules, unexpected illnesses and various work schedules. But despite all of that, it was still a wonderful weekend.

It's funny how having a child changes your perspective on things. To begin, we had an amazing hotel room! It was actually more like our own little house. We had our own garage and a huge water feature in our backyard. But now that Claire is in our lives, I look at hotel rooms a little differently. The first things to enter my mind were: "will the pack 'n play fit in the bathroom?", "how are we going to block all of the light coming in from the skylight so she'll sleep longer?", and "do we have enough pillows to make a barrier around the fireplace?" It wasn't until afterwards that I thought of how cool the room actually was with the floor to ceiling windows, spacious backyard and fantastic automatic lighting. Wasn't our backyard amazing?!

After adjusting to the fact that Claire didn't sleep well the first night, we all had a blast. I always love getting to sleep in a huge king size bed and by the look on her face in the picture above, Claire had fun on it as well.

For Erik,  the weekend was nothing but golf. Not only did he golf a few times, but it was the weekend of the Masters Tournament so when he wasn't on the course himself, he was watching the pros on TV. Yeah....boring! :)

I am so grateful that the weather wasn't absolutely terrible although I'm a little confused honey. You were wearing shorts so was it warm? Or was it cold because you are wearing a beanie as well? I'm consufed. :) That's Erik's wardrobe for you. HA! It did rain a little bit, but he was still able to have fun golfing. From the pictures, the course looked beautiful!

While Erik was golfing, I tried to take a few pictures of Claire in our backyard, but with wet grass and it being very chilly, she wasn't having any of it. For this picture, she finally cracked a smile, but she refused to put her right leg on the ground. How funny is that?!

 

When Erik and his parents weren't golfing, we spent as much time together as possible. Claire hung out with her cousins, Soren and Emma, and had a blast with her Farmor and Farfar. One of Claire's favorite moments on our trip was when we went out to dinner and she got a balloon. We tied it on her wrist and she LOVED having it in constant reach.

         

Saturday morning I let Claire miss her morning nap so she could have her first swimming pool experience. She wasn't too happy about it at first, but after some cuddling and a switch to the hot tub, she warmed up to it. I guess maybe she's going to be a temperature snob just like her mother.

    

Before we knew it, it was time to leave. I anticipated a horrible drive home being that it was the middle of the day, but Claire was a trooper. I don't think she cried once! She slept, ate snacks, read books and played with her toys. Aww...our little angel! 



I hope we can take another vacation soon! Family time is the best!