A night away...

We are so blessed to have an AWESOME job, that really prioritizes marriage and gives us free money each year to get away as a couple. For this entire calendar year (God willing...) I will have either been pregnant or nursing, so we pretty much figured we wouldn't get to use it this year. However, we have a good friend who got a free night in a nice hotel in Kansas City that she wasn't going to use, and she was sweet enough to give it to us. We figured since Henry is still little, we'd give it a shot and just bring him with us! It was a lot of fun, but definitely did not go as we planned...

My aunt offered to come and stay with Blakely- which was awesome. We left after we put her down for a nap yesterday. As of late, Henry has been having a hard time with nursing- maybe on a nursing strike or something. I never know if he will go 3 or 4+ hours between eating, and if I try to feed him before he's ready he has a major flip out and the only thing that calms him down is if I can manage to get him to sleep. So we left for Kansas city, and had to stop halfway there to feed Henry- no big deal. We checked into our hotel which was wonderful. We were on the 18th floor- which felt pretty fancy. We knew since we had Henry that we needed to have low expectations for the weekend... But we figured, a nice hotel, money for nice food, BEAUTIFUL weather, it was going to be fun no matter what. We were within walking distance of the Plaza- but long enough that we wanted to have the car nearby just in case. Well, due to the nice weather- it was hopping, so we really didn't get to park close anyway. We loaded Henry up in the stroller, went to a few stores, and then decided to eat on the patio at M&S grill. Henry was a little angel until our food came, and then he got fussy. Our food wasn't nearly as good as we wanted it to be, but we had fun just hanging out. Since Henry was crying we had them box our dessert up and we just planned to eat it at the hotel. As soon as they brought it out, Henry was asleep...figures. We then decided to walk back to the hotel since it was so nice, and I'd feed Henry, then we'd go back to the Plaza for some more shopping. Well, as soon as we were on our way, it started to rain. It rained on us on our whole walk back. :) We were about to get on the elevator and I got some rumblies in my tummy...and since we were on the 18th floor I wasn't feeling too confident in making it to our room so I used the lobby restroom. Let's just say I ended up being in there a while. I had some pretty bad stomach issues and felt like I was going to throw up- luckily I never did. After feeding Henry I felt like I was doing much better so we loaded him back up to go to the Plaza and get our car. About halfway there the tummy troubles hit me again, and I knew I needed to find a bathroom quick. I spent some more time in the firehouse subs bathroom... I knew it wasn't over so I told Stephen we needed to get to the car and get back to the hotel ASAP. So we walked briskly to our car only to discover that the battery was dead and it wouldn't start. I was up a creek. Henry was fussy and only wanted to be held and we were a pretty good ways away from our hotel. Luckily I made it back to the hotel room.... Then Henry had a rough couple of hours and Stephen ended up being on the phone with AAA for an hour due to a mixup with our membership. By the time I got Henry asleep and Stephen was off the phone with AAA it was 10:30. We considered ordering a movie- only to discover that it was TWENTY DOLLARS. Um, hello! You can BUY the movie for that much! We decided we needed to just go to sleep.

Luckily Henry only had one little freak out in the middle of the night, and we ALL ended up sleeping until 8am- that hasn't happened in a LONG time. Stephen got our car jumped and actually got it working fine- starting up and sounding good so we decided to go get some breakfast. We went to a GREAT breakfast place on the Plaza- and of course, Henry was awesome until our food arrived. We were planning to head back home after breakfast, however, once again our car wouldn't start. So we waited again for AAA to get there. We got it jumped again, and obviously knew we needed to just get home before we were personally keeping AAA in business. I had to ride in the backseat to keep Henry happy the whole way home.

Although NOTHING went as we had planned, we really did have so much fun just being together. We both got to focus on Henry and hang out with him and we got to have lots of good conversation that we don't normally get to have. We got to sleep a little extra in a really comfortable bed, we got to walk around outside in the beautiful weather, and we got to eat some really good food. And it was FREE!!! We are really looking forward to a getaway WITHOUT kids though. :)

I did take a few pics of me and Stephen but they are all on his phone!