Weekend to Remember!

God's timing is perfect!!  We have had tickets to go to the Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference for two years now and finally got to go this year.  I was devastated when I was desperate for a break, about to give birth to Adah, and Brian started having some pretty severe stomach issues.  We had to cancel our plans to go.  But God knew what was best and because I was still nursing Adah the next year, we opted out then too.  This was the year!  We could only transfer our tickets for up to two years so we knew we either had to go or give our tickets away!  This was the first time we had left our kids overnight and knowing now what we know (our kids can, in fact, survive without us!) we will definitely be doing this again!  We had such a great time together.  Not only was it nice to have two nights without any responsibility for kids, but we also got to hear some really wonderful speakers.  It was even just fun riding in the car with my husband to get there and actually being able to talk without the sound of a DVD playing or the fighting in the backseat!  Saturday we had date night and got to go out to eat and to a movie.  We even did a little shopping before all that!  It was such a wonderful time.  We learned a lot about oneness and that God is our top priority but that next in line is our spouse (even before our kids which is a tough one sometimes).  We got to write love letters to each other too and at the end of the conference on Sunday they had us recite our vows to each other (everyone at the same time in the meeting, so we weren't on the spot or anything!).  I HIGHLY recommend that everyone go to this at least once.  I can guarantee you won't go just once though.  We plan to go every 2 years at least!  God has blessed me with my perfect mate and I am soooo thankful for that!

It was kind of funny...when we got there the lady at the front desk told us she got us a king size bed but that it was in a presidential suite meaning it had a huge table in it!  Every time we opened the door to our room there was a huge room with a giant table and TV and then we had to go to the next room to get to our very large bed in our very tiny room.  It served its purpose but it was just funny!  The table came in handy too because Saturday morning we ordered room service for breakfast and it was nice to have a table to sit at!!

Very pregnant but still smiling!!