our anniversary weekend

So here is what we did this weekend to celebrate our anniversary. Friday evening we had a date night. The evening started off with a delivery at the door of some beautiful flowers. Rebecca (Boyd) came over about 5:00 to watch the kids and we were off. The first stop was the nail salon. Yep, that's right, the nail salon. I was in need of a pedi and I some how managed to convince Dustin to get one too. He was in love with the massage chair and pretty much was half asleep the entire time. I had to drag him away. So needless to say he enjoyed it and now he might just try to come with me every time I go! :) Then it was off to dinner at a restaurant that we had been wanting to try. It was called Buffalo Wild Wings and if you know D then you know that he LOVES his wings. It was a fun time and we enjoyed the restaurant. Then we were off to the movies since we hadn't been in longer than we can remember. Well that didn't work out so good. We couldn't find a parking spot. No joke! It was the first night that Batman was out and it was a mad house. We tried another theater and it was the same issue. So we laughed and blew off the movie. We did a little shopping and decided to come home early since the next day was going to be a long one. We got home about 9:30ish and both kids were asleep. Are you kidding me? I told Rebecca she was going to have to come over every night and put Christian to bed.

Saturday morning we dropped the kids off at Auntie Marci's. We decided that they would have way more fun at her house than in a car with us all day...I think we were right. We headed for the LA area where we planned on being complete tourists for the day. So much fun! Our first stop was Pink's hot dogs. We were set to stand in line for a while, but lucked out. By time we left though it was another story. Then it was off to Sprinkles cupcakes. No luck there. We couldn't find parking and the line was ridiculous, so maybe next time or we will try a different location. We toured a famous Hollywood cemetery and other local landmarks. We cruised a few famous streets such as Rodeo, Wilshire, Sunset, and Melrose. We were going to do the bus tour and see some celebrities homes, but we decided to do that another time. We went to the Getty Center where we spent a good amount of time. We they tried to go to the Santa Monica pier because believe it or no I have never been there. Well we picked the wrong day for that. Roads were closed and the streets were a mess. There was some kind of event going on there that they were getting ready for. So we ditched that idea and will do that on some week night and bring the kids along. We slowly headed home stopping for dinner at Logans Roadhouse, I had been wanting to try that place for a while. It did not disappoint us! Then it was off to pick up the kids and head home.

It was a great weekend and has been a great 5 years of marriage. We did realize that we need more alone time and have decided to try and have at least one kid free date a month. I do believe that it is good for the marriage and the kids too.

Pink's

the Getty Center
the tram ride up to the museumthis is the look Dustin says I give him all the timeDustin's favorite painting of the day :)Dustin thought it was funny that I matched the bedthe smoggy view of LA