Chase and I went to dinner for our anniversary Thursday night at Surin 280. Yummo! Mom and Dad kept the girls while we went to dinner. Thanks, again!! The Thai BBQ Chicken is wonderful there. If you've never had it, then I totally recommend it. So good!
It's hard for us to believe that it's been 4 years already since we got married on that chilly day in January 2009. God has blessed us with so much already in these 4 short years and we are looking forward to continuing to build this beautiful life together. Chase is my rock and the love of my life. I don't know what I would do with out him. Here's to 4 and many more!
Happy Anniversary to Chase and I! On Tuesday, we celebrated 3
years of marriage by going to dinner at Surin 280 and spending a little time without BR. (Thanks, Mom and Dad for watching her!) Dinner was delicious!
I was able to have sushi and Chase had the Thai BBQ Chicken. AMAZING!!
We didn't take any pictures at dinner this year. Hopefully, I don't
regret that one day but there just wasn't a good time.
Chase brought me these beauties with a card and some Snickers ice cream bars when he got home from work. He is so sweet and thoughtful.
We are still very much in love and I don't know what I would do without him. I (we) look forward to many many more years together!!
We're thinking about taking a vacation in March or April that will be our anniversary/baby-moon before Savannah gets here and we become a family of 4. We're thinking about going to Savannah, GA (Chase has never been there and it's beautiful) or just going down to Gulf Shores, AL. Updates on that decision will come later.
Monday was our actual anniversary so instead of me cooking we decided to go out for Mexican. This isn't a great picture but it's all we got. Our little family of 2 is now 3. I wonder what we'll be next year. We'll see!
Last weekend, Chase and I left BR with her grandparents and headed over to Atlanta, Georgia for a fun weekend together. It was great to spend some one on one time together without worrying about Brantley at the same time. Much needed!
On Friday morning we left bright and early (7am) and headed to ATL. We went straight to the Georgia Aquarium. We had been talking about wanting to go there for a while so we took this chance to check it out. We were so amazed at the size of the tanks they have and the variety of animals/fish they have. It was so great!! I took a lot of videos because there was no flash photography inside. Here they are...
This is a video of the biggest tank that the have at the GA Aquarium. They have 4 whale sharks, manta rays, saw tooth shark, grouper, barracuda, sand tiger sharks and lots lots more. Chase and I went back to this tank at least 4 times because it was by far the coolest one. The whale sharks are massive and beautiful. The cool thing we learned about them is that they won't attack humans because they can't bite/swallow anything larger than a quarter. Hard to believe but it's true.
In this video, you first see a sand tiger shark. It had really pretty spots. Then a HUGE grouper swims right in front of the camera shot. Couldn't have been more perfect. It was like he knew I was videoing. Oh and if you look at his eye you can see that he has a cataract in his right eye. Old! You can also hear the lady say that they were able to open the aquarium with NO DEBT so this allows them to put most of the amount collected from ticket sales into research. They are currently researching Whale Sharks among lots of other species. There is very little that they actually know about whale sharks. So cool!! There is a saw tooth shark fish just hanging out at the bottom and then you see a Guitar Fish, it's a type of shark. Seriously the coolest tank in the whole place!
This is another video of the whale sharks but it's a little better than the others. You can really tell how big they are. These are around 20 ft long (maybe 30) but they can grow up to 40 ft long. There is also a hammer head shark and manta rays playing in the bubbles. So cool!
This was my second favorite tank at the aquarium. Seahorses! The tank is so colorful. Those little vertical things floating around are fish. I don't remember what they are called but they were pretty cool. There were some bigger seahorses behind the coral but I didn't get a good shot of them. Kids would LOVE this aquarium! I would suggest that you wait until they are atleast 3 years old so that they "get-it". There were some young kiddos there and they didn't seem to really be enjoying it. They didn't want to touch the sting rays (stingers are removed) and they just seemed to get tired of it really fast. We saw a lot of the same kids during the day and the bigger kids seemed happier than the under 3 crowd.
These are Elephant Fish. They were very playful and chased each other around the tank. I had never seen or heard of these before so I was surprised to see them.
More pictures that I took at the Aquarium.
I totally recommend the Georgia Aquarium!
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Friday night we ate at Pappadeaux's and it was wonderful. The atmosphere and food there were both fabulous. Our server was great and it didn't take too long to get our food. I was starving so that was nice. haha We got dessert to-go and didn't eat it until we got home, but it was still wonderful.
No pictures from dinner. Oops!
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Saturday morning we got up, ate breakfast at the hotel and headed over to Stone Mountain for the day. We had tickets to ride the skylift to the top of the mountain and walk around. It was really cool! Did you know that Stone Mountain is made up totally of granite? That's a lot of kitchen counters! haha
After going to the top of Stone Mountain we had time to walk around and eat lunch. We ate at Miss Katie's Kitchen. It took forever for us to get our meals but the food was really good so I guess it was worth the wait.
Finally 2:00 was here and it was time to go tubing.
We had a lot of fun. We're planning to take Brantley there one day if they keep doing it for a few more years. They had a special kiddy snow area with a castle that had small hills for tubing and sledding. The kids were adorable and having a lot of fun. I think kids have to be 3 to tube.
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Saturday night we ate dinner at Dave & Buster's. Our meal was great and then we had fun playing a few games and collecting tickets. It was like being a kid again so we just a great time.
Chase got to play this Nascar driving game. He drove Talladega and came in 4th place, I think, or it might have been 7th. I can't remember.
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This weekend was great and I'm so glad Chase and I decided to go away to celebrate 2 years of marriage. It was so much fun! I love my husband so very much. I can't believe it's been 2 years already but I can't wait to see what God has in store for our future. We have only just begun!
Sunday was our 1 year anniversary. We celebrated by going to dinner at Firebirds, which is where we had our first date and it's just so yummy that we HAD to go there again for this occasion.
The food was absolutely DELICIOUS!! We both had a salad, steak and baked potato. Oh my goodness, it was just amazing!! If you've never eaten there, I recommend you trying it out the next time you're feeling like going out for an upscale type meal.
I really REALLY can't believe I'm posting this picture of myself because I am far from cute in it, but it's the only picture we took together on our anniversary so I feel like it should be shared. The lighting was pretty bad for our little point and shoot camera but the size of my belly, and the fact you can see through my shirt are what make the picture even worse. Yuck! Ahh!
When we got home we watched a little football while our dinner settled and then we had a little Cake Picnic. My mom had this yummy red velvet cake made for us since our original wedding cake topper never got put in the freezer. But that's okay because this cake is wonderful.
(By the way, Publix makes great cakes if any of you are still out of the loop on that one.)
See how great that looks. It tastes GREAT too!! The Sparkling Grape Juice was a nice touch as well.
We exchanged cards and had a wonderful time just spending the evening together. I had intentions of us watching our wedding video together but I forgot. Oops!
This is kinda silly to post, but these are my SUPER cute PJ's Chase gave me for the occasion. They aren't maternity but I loved them so much I couldn't wait to wear them. Thankfully, the shirt was long enough to cover up my HUGE belly so I wasn't sporting the Wal-Mart look. Haha!
They are from Target. If you want some click HERE. They have a couple different colors but I LOVE the turquoise. I also got THESE, but I definitely had belly showing. I'll have to save them for after BR is here and my belly isn't GINORMOUS anymore. haha!
Oh and just so no one thinks Chase was left out, he got some new clothes as well. :o)
Anyways, it was a great night and we are still VERY VERY much in love. We look forward to many more years of happiness together.
