Our spa weekend

This past weekend we went on our yearly anniversary trip. We chose a spa in Berkely Springs, West Virginia. It didn't turn out quite like we'd hoped - the beds were too small to share, so we slept in seperate beds, I had a killer cold all weekend, and there wasn't anything to do outside of the hotel. But, besides all of that, we had a nice time. It was fun just to hang out together without any distractions. On Saturday we had a whirlpool bath and massages and I am now totaly hooked on massages, I can't wait for my next one!

The state park next to the hotel had these historic natural warm springs that stay at 74.5 degrees all year round. We found this small one with a sign above it saying George Washington's bath tub (1748). We couldn't figure out if that was a joke or what, we did find out that he was part of the original survey team and that he later bought land in Berkeley Springs and frequently went there, but we couldn't find out anything about the bath tub.

This is the hotel, with the spa in the background. The spa was on a hill so while we were in the whirlpool tub we could look out over the town. Which, was tiny. It took us about five minutes to walk through the whole town. It seemed like the hotel was the biggest thing!

This is me totally relaxed and sacked out after the WONDERFUL massage!

Our 4th Anniversary!

Whoo hoo, we made it to four years! We went out to dinner at Chili's, which was nice. We had the waiter take our picture, which Chris didn't want, so he says this is his "I don't want my picture taken" face, but it looks like a nice smile to me! And I think I look cute, too, which is rare for me lately. He wasn't supposed to, but he got me a whole bag of gifts. I thought we had agreed when we first got married that we wouldn't buy each other anniversary presents and instead we'd go on a trip and that would be our present to each other. So here he gives me a bunch of gifts and I don't get anything for him! I should know better by now. But he likes spoiling me and I like being spoiled, so I guess it works out. Plus he's always so hard to buy for. Next weekend we're taking our trip to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We're getting massages! This is the first year we haven't gone ON our anniversary, but they were booked this weekend.

Five generations!

Yesterday was my cousin's bridal shower and we took a picture of the five generations of women on my mom's side. I think it's pretty rare to have five generations living at the same time, so we always make sure to take pictures when we have the chance. From left to right, here are the generations, my grandmother, my aunt (mother of the bride), my mother, my cousin (the bride-to-be), my great-grandmother, my cousin and her daughter, and me. And we're only missing one girl cousin to have all the women in the family, which is another reason for the picture. There are so many boys in the family we love having pictures of just the girls!

Happy Easter

Every holiday, even when I tell him not to, Chris loves to surprise me. This morning I went downstairs and found an Easter basket full of candy and a scavenger hunt to find plastic eggs filled with more candy! How cute is that?!? I always get stumped on at least a couple of his clues, he tends to make things too cryptic. But I found them all and it was a really fun surprise. We went to my parents house for dinner and I should have taken pictures of the dining room table, it was cleared off and set nicely, which it hasn't been in years. While I was there I took this other picture with Richard. I've sometimes toyed with the idea of getting my tongue pierced, just for fun for awhile so I borrowed one of Richard's extra ones to see what it would look like. Kinda cute?

Our backyard

I found my camera, I had put it in what I thought at the time was an obvious place to keep it, but since I couldn't find it for three days, that obviously didn't work so well.

I don't think I've ever posted pictures of our backyard, so here is one looking out onto our deck and backyard and one closeup of my pansies. They seem to be doing pretty well, which I'm so excited about. The deck will be in a lot of shade once the leaves come in on the trees, so I don't know if I'll be able to have flowers out there all summer.

The next step is to try planting something in my front yard and making that prettier, I don't really like what the previous owners had out there. But that's what everyone sees, so I'm even more nervous about that.