We've been trying to save as many of our vacation days as we can to use when Melanie arrives in November. Well, we made it to the middle of July and finally decided to take at least one day to celebrate our aniversary (good excuse). July 23rd marked two years together! Time really does fly by. It seems like just yesterday we were all wearing fancy clothes, sweating like crazy under the pavillion on the hottest day of the year. What a great day that was!
For our anniversary, Elaine and Steve said we could go down to stay at their beach house. We left Thursday night after work and got there pretty late, but it was worth it to wake up at the beach. The weather was pretty good to us. It was a little overcast on Friday, but breezy. Saturday was beautiful. We went to the beach to work on our burns both days. Saturday night, we took an idea from Drew and Amy (who were also celebrating their anniversary that weekend), and went to Baytowne Wharf for dinner. Baytowne Wharf is a little resort community with shops and restaurants that's within Sandestin Golf and Beach resort. It was so much fun! We just wish we had gone over there earlier, so we would have more time to visit the shops.
We walked around for a little while and took some pictures while the light was still good. Then, we went to Poppy's Seafood Factory for dinner. They had live music and two huge decks with a great view of the bay. Mark had the King Crab Legs, and I had the Red Snapper with Shrimp and Crab Meat...yum! An hour later, when Mark finished his crab legs, we tried to walk off our dinner a little around the wharf. We then decided to get a little crazy and head back to Destin for some miniature golf at Big Kahuna's. I guess we were itching to sweat some more, in honor of our anniversary! It turns out that this is one of the things that I'm actually able to beat Mark at! I took him down in an eighteen hole sweaty grudge match.
On Sunday, we pretty much just packed up and went home, with a stop by Silver Sands Factory Outlet mall on our way out. What trip to Florida wouldn't be complete without some outlet mall shopping? Besides, isn't the second year anniversary gift cotton anyway? It was a short weekend, but we seemed to pack a lot in. We knew we had to enjoy it, because this will probably be our last vacation for a long time without kids. It will all be very different from here on out!
Regarding our baby news...I had a doctor's appointment last week. I got to hear the heartbeat again, which was pretty cool. They also gave me my paperwork for the hospital, so we could look that over and get it ready. We'll be delivering at Northside Hospital, which delivers more babies annually than any other hospital in the nation. Hopefully, that means they'll know what they're doing when our time comes! I finally started feeling the baby move a few weeks ago. Mark's even gotten to feel her move, and if you watch my belly, you can see her moving too. That's been very reassuring to us. If we can feel her moving around, then we feel like she must be doing ok. Our next appointment is in three weeks, and we'll have another 3D ultrasound where we'll get to see her face for the first time! I'll be 28 weeks then. We'll be sure to post some pictures of that once we have them. As for the pictures from our beach trip, they're posted in a new album to the left....enjoy!
