Our anniversary part 2 - el cheapo style

The day of our actual anniversary was quite fun and spontaneous. We didn't set out with much of a plan. We waited too long to get a sitter lined up. So, the morning of our 6 year anniversary we sat outside discussing where we'd like to go. After 20 minutes of not coming up with much of anything, but some plummeting hopes and dreams of the most awesome anniversary day ever that never was...Jonathon suggested we just put the kids in the car and be on our way within the next 10 minutes! And so we did just that.

On our drive down, we swung into TWO 7-eleven's. Jonathon bought a Boston Cream doughnut at the first store. But, Eden and I accidentally ate too much of it. So, we had to get another one for him at the next.

We thought we might take Eden to the dinosaur exhibit at the mall one last time since Saturday was it's last day before it would be extinct. ;-)


On the way there we noticed a huge multi family garage sale, so we flipped U-ey to check it out. I accidentally killed the car on the curb. Well, almost killed. It's fine really. But it was quite the bumpy ride for a moment.


The mall was fun. We ate Taco Bell and Carl's Jr. with buy one get one coupons. We tried See's chocolate samples (free), we ate delicious Hawaiian cookie samples (free). And of course spent a few minutes checking out the dinosaurs. We rode up and down the elevator for fun, and even had a few rides on the escalator.


When that was old, we headed back to the car. We were ready for some pool time. And this is when I FINALLY got out the camera!

We love this pool. We stayed at these condos with Jonathon's folks when they were out visiting a year ago...so technically we are still able to use the pool right? Well, they didn't stop us at least.

Tex finally learned how to swim on his own (in his floaty suit). Don't worry, I got it on video. See?

And we had tons of fun jumping in the pool and in the hot tub, and back to the pool, till we were all pooled out!

Dinner time!
Lucky for us, Tex fell asleep just as we got to RED LOBSTER! ;-)
(Tex woke up just in time to help us finish some fries and cheese biscuits)

And it was delicious. We had left over gift card money from Christmas. So we decided to spoil ourselves rotten. Seafood nacho appetizer, trio platter plate with coconut shrimp, garlic shrimp, and stuffed sole. We wanted dessert...but there was just no room. Though the cookie lava cake ala mode looked AMAZING. Next time though, cause we still have money left over!

After that, we enjoyed a long drive home with sleeping babies in the back. It was a splendid, spontaneous 6! And I'm pretty positive I have the coolest husband ever.