The Brown Brick Road

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Longest long weekend ever

California pics to come but have to document our 3 day weekend turned 7 day weekend! School was cancelled last Friday because of a thunderstorm that never materialized, they then had Monday off for MLK day, then Tuesday was cancelled because we were covered in ice, and then Wednesday cancelled as well after all that ice melted and refroze! The kids were loving it and I was too. I love having all my babies at home.

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ice

long weekend

long weekend

home

(Yes, our tree is still up. I’m not mad at my procrastination this year as I loved having it up while stuck at home!)

What’s been even nicer is that Robert has been working from home too. No one I’d rather be stuck with in an ice storm – and stuck with for 16 years!

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Happy anniversary Robert. I love you and our busy, crazy, awesome life!

12!

A full dozen years since this day…

So glad I’ve got this guy by my side every day. I love you, Robert. Happy anniversary!!

Bahama Breeze

As I mentioned last month, Robert and I celebrated 10 years of marriage in January! To celebrate he surprised me with a trip to the Bahamas – woohoo! The weather gods tried to keep us from our fun by bringing some ice to Birmingham and Atlanta but we didn’t let that stop us. After too many cancellations by Delta, we ended up driving over to Atlanta Wednesday night in order to be there to catch our flight on Thursday. We were in the Bahamas by lunchtime that day!

bahamas

We stayed at The Ocean Club in Paradise Island and it was beautiful. Truly beautiful – the hotel, the grounds, the art – all of it was just perfect.

ocena club

bahamas

bahamas

bahamas

hotel

bahamas

The weather was slightly on the chilly side so no swimming but plenty of lying in the sun with a good book. We also visited the spa and ate lots of good food. Not much more I could ask for! At times, I even got a little more than I could ask for thanks to our room butlers…

butlers

haha! We did not expect that in our room Saturday afternoon!

We had dinner in Nassau the first night at Cafe Matisse and it was excellent. On the night of our anniversary we ate at Dune at the hotel and it was fantastic.

dune

On Saturday night we took a car over to the Atlantis to explore and check out the fish…

atlantis

fish

and let Robert play craps while I did some really good people watching!

atlantis

We had a great dinner at Nobu too.

Overall the trip was better than we had hoped – relaxing and fun and wonderful! And when you’re traveling alone you get to take lots of selfies! Robert loved that.  🙂

bahamas

bahamas

Meanwhile, back on the home front, GJ and Daddo were so nicely holding down the fort…with a little help from Susan too!

home

home

I’m so grateful for the time away with my favorite husband! 🙂 The sun, the sand, and the time alone were the best way to ring in another decade!

10 years

I love you Robert! Thank you for the wonderful celebration!! Where are we going for 20?!

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X years

Today is our tenth anniversary! Ten years seems like a lifetime and yet it also seems like yesterday we were doing this…

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ten

The traditional tenth anniversary gifts are tin and aluminum…I think I’ll take sand and sunshine instead!  🙂

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A decade is quite an accomplishment and you’ve made it pretty easy on me! So many great things have come out of the last 10 years. I’m so proud of us and the little family we have created. I can’t wait to see what the next 10 hold in store for all of us! I love you, Robert. Happy TEN YEARS!!

All anniversary posts here.

NINE

Here’s to NINE and feeling more than FINE!

nine years

I love you, Robert. Let’s make it 99 more!

Read about our wedding here and here. More anniversary posts here.