AWESOME SURPRISE WEEKEND

I had an awesome surprise anniversary weekend, planned and completely executed (with an itinerary!) by my seriously amazing husband. we got the idea of planning surprise weekend getaways for our anniversary's from my sil, emily {special shout out: she had a BABY today!} anyway, the clues were this:

1. it was within 4 hours of colorado springs.
2. it was a "destination"
3. cooley can come with us
4. it had something to do with trains, in a crossword puzzle clue type of way.

we went to Steamboat Springs (get it?! Steam - steam engines - trains!) it was glorious. we relaxed all weekend, went to a natural hot springs (which was the bomb), at yummy meals, took cooley for a bunch of walks, and went to bed early. oh yeah, and celebrated being married for a year (mdt's response = "uuuuuugggghhhhhh. a year?! it feels like 10"

here's the photographic evidence:

we went to watch the high school's homecoming parade. these preschoolers mobbed cooley and he loved it. there was also a kid in a banana suit.

cooley rolling in the grass while we watched the parade

an amazing breakfast place we ate at twice (mostly because cooley could sit with us on the patio)

i made the dobos torte cake and michael left me this note in the frosting bowl

squishy face

we took some long walks with great scenery


cooley enjoyed the river

our weird "official" anniversary picture before a REALLY fancy dinner

we went to a botanical garden and messed around

i kept wondering about why they had this lincoln statue until i realized the main street is Lincoln Ave. Ka-dur

And the best part of my weekend, without pictures, is that i bought some Danskos. Amazing. The End.

ps: in regards to my "pity party" post: cooley is under control; my bill is paid; and i went out to dinner last week with those girls who i thought didn't like me but it i think they DOOOO! but i still love marshall people more -- i wish i was at charlies with nachos and wine.