away we go (or rather, went)

        Here is a quick run down on our weekend away. Turns out we needed this weekend more than we thought because we spent all last night hanging out with a crying, feverish, throwing up baby. Today is pretty much been a follow up of last night. I am just so thankful Will is working from home to help me out. I am also choosing not to feel sorry for ourselves because life is just full of ups and downs.

 This was outside our "cliff side" hotel room. I thought Will would take a picture that included the mountains in the background, but just rocks. We were blessed with beautiful sunny weather the entire time. It was a little chilly, but that did not matter because we had hot springs to get in.

On our walk down to the actual resort. Will says this is my go to pose and I am squinting because of the sun rising, but whatever. We ate breakfast every morning in peace. There were a couple of dads that were having to pace outside with their toddlers during the meal, and I was really glad that was not us.

  

 After breakfast we worked out. It was the first time we had worked out together in a while. We had the entire place to ourselves, it was great. 

Then we made our way to some patio furniture surrounding a fire pit. Then we sat inside the lobby for a while. Then we sat in some lounge chairs by the pool. Then we got in the hot springs. Then we got some smoothies and sat some more. It was all so nice to just be able to hop from one chair to the next with no agenda.

This was our view from our room's porch.  All of the building below is the actual resort. We walked up and down that hill several times.

 

The resort had a river running through it. There was even an option to sit in the river in the spots where the hot spring ran into it, we opted out of that. I would much rather sit in a smooth surface rather than rocks. We picked a good time to go because we felt like we had the place to ourselves. Every where we walked it was silent except for the water running in the river.

I think that because we know how precious and short our alone time is together, we were fully engaged the entire trip. I felt the most connected than we had in a long time. It was really easy to take advantage of our time together before we had Madison, but now I think we know how to value it more. I think it gave us the time we needed to really appreciate our family and what our future looks like together.