5 Happy Years

This last weekend we celebrated our 5 year anniversary in Leavenworth! I've been stressing the last few weeks, trying to decide what to do. It's ridiculous because, like Braydan reminded me, "it doesn't matter what we do! We always have fun." Well Friday (the day of), I finally decided we should go on a climbing trip. Amber and Wes happily took the kids (we'll swap them later) and we took off! We had a great time together and pretended we didn't have kids. First we went to a fancy dinner at Viscontes. The bruschetta was amazing! After dinner we checked out more of the quirky town . . .

this is why we needed my camera! I don't know what I'm checking out . . .

still working on learning the video camera part of the phone :) at least there's cool music

. . . and when it was almost dark, we went to find a campsite up Icicle Canyon.

Saturday morning we headed for X Y Cracks, a nice little wall to warm up on.

repelling down

Right off I remembered I don't like cracks! I hate jamming body parts and hauling myself up. I feel like it's not graceful or technical, but probably because I'm not good at it :) Braydan obliged me and we hiked to J-Y Crag next.

Braydan

He lead a fun one (without cracks!) and I loved how sticky the quartz felt. It sure is sharp on the fingers though!

me

We also found Veterns Wall and that one was our favorite. Lots of routes, no people, and full sun! We climbed till 2, hiked back down to our campsite and packed up. We drove into Leavenworth for something to eat and Braydan insisted I needed to have a traditional Brat. Eww! I tried a bite, but gave the rest to him. Before we left I wanted to see the famous chocolate shop. I had no intentions of buying any, but suddenly Braydan was picking out pieces and buying a box for me! I tried to ignore the price and enjoy them for Mother's Day :)

We headed home and got to enjoy more alone time together because the kids were at Discovery Park with the Dyers! What a spoiled weekend for all of us! I thought Kaleb would be so excited to see us, but he cried himself to sleep, wanting to play with Jacob.

One last word . . . .When Mom was here a few weeks ago, she randomly told me, "Braydan is perfect for you, you know." I was kinda surprised, but the more I've thought about it, the more I realized she is right. He really is perfect for me. I'm so lucky to have had 5 happy years with him.