Valentines Weekend

Dave heard of a good deal called "The Cache Valley Getaway Package" and checked into it. What it entailed is an overnight stay in a hotel (several to choose from) two dinner vouchers for various restaurants (your choice) and breakfast in the morning.

We were sure it was meant to be some sort of romance getaway, but we thought it would be fun to take the kids and let them swim at the hotel and just get out of the house. My sister also lives in Logan, so we were able to visit her for a little bit Friday night.
Dave booked the hotel two weeks prior to going. We had been getting Landon stoked for it a few days before we were to leave. Thursday morning both my kids came down with fevers. We were all pretty bummed thinking we needed to cancel. Miraculously, both kids seemed to be just fine Friday morning, so we were excited to still be going.

I took the kids to the mall Friday morning to let them each pick out a new stuffed animal for a Vday present. Both my kids loved stuffed animals. While we were headed out to our car we passed a lady at Mrs. Fields cookies who was decorating those giant heart cookies. Landon's mouth was salivating. But Landon, he's a thinker. His way of getting one of those giant cookies for himself was to suggest getting it for Daddy for Valentines Day. Dave and I had promised we would not get anything for each other, but I figured this would be fine. Landon was soooo excited! He even asked the lady to add sprinkles (which she did not have out, but she went and found some anyway).

When we got to the hotel both my kids were on super-hyper mode. We set up the pack-n-play for Dawson who immediately had to get inside. He was so excited to be in there he just kept on squealing. Landon was super excited to have his very own giant bed. He didn't want to leave the hotel room at all. He just wanted to stay on his bed. I feel pretty bad for whoever had to sleep below us, or on either side. Let's just say our kids took turns waking up every 20 minutes throughout the night. They definitely take after me, I DESPISE sleeping in hotels and never sleep well.


After the excitement from the hotel room died down just a little we took the kids swimming then to dinner. Landon used to love swimming and was never afraid of "the deep" but then again, taking after his mom, he is now afraid and did a great job staying right by the steps and clinging on for life. We will be putting him in swimming lessons for sure, we don't want his fear of water to turn as bad as mine! :) Dawson loved every second of swimming! It was cute to watch him float on his own.




We had several options to chose for dinner, both our kids were tired and getting cranky at this point, so we decided to go with a more kid friendly place. Ruby Tuesdays. Never been there before and honestly, dont think I'll ever go back :) The food wasn't terrible, but not great either. We had fun going out to dinner as a fam, which doesn't happen too often for us.
Landon engaging Dave with a very humorous story.
The food Landon didn't touch. Seriously, how does he stay alive with what he DOESN'T eat?
After swimming and dinner we went to visit Becky, my sis. We didn't bring the camera, but it was fun to see her new place, and visit with her and her hubby. My kids love Becky and Mike!

Saturday morning we woke to a blizzard outside. We were going to do lots of shopping and factory visits, but felt we should hurry home before the snow got worse. We hurry and headed over to Gossner, got some cheese curds and two cases of flavored milk. We also got ice cream cones. I had to get a black licorice ice cream cone, for the sake of childhood memories (YUM!)
Then we drove home in the blizzard, scary.

On Saturday (Vday) my mom said she would watch our kids so Dave and I could go to a movie and out to dinner. We don't get sitters much, so we were excited. But knowing me, I started getting a headache that quickly turned migraine, HUGE BUMMER! I took some pain killer, went upstairs and took a nice hot bath, then laid down for a while, luckily it went away.. but it was still too late to hit up a movie. Instead we put our kids down at 7:30 and had a nice quiet evening with just the two of us.
My mom offered to take our kids Monday afternoon instead, since Dave had work off. We went with my sis and her husband and saw "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Really long show, but really good.
We had a fun weekend! If anyone is interested in the Cache Valley getaway, they are doing it until April. If you want details, let me know! :) The restaurant we went to had a GREAT morning breakfast buffet! (included in the stay).