A Trip for Two

Hilton Golf and Spa Resort in Phoenix

Trevor and I went on our annual Trev and Heather Only Trip!! We have been doing this every year since we have been married... before there were kids and now that we have 2, we still make it a priority to go somewhere...
2001- Married (no kids)
2002-Shreveport (no kids)
2003-Swapped houses with Trev's parents (KK 6 months old)
2004-Turner Falls, Ok (KK 14 months old, Amy watched her)
2005-I think we missed this one with a 2 yr old and a 6 month old
2006-St. Louis, Mo (KK 3yrs and Connor 1yr, Trev's parents came over)
2007-Houston, TX (KK 4 yrs and Connor 2yrs, Heather's parents flew in)
2008-Phoenix, Az (KK 5 yrs and Connor 3yrs, Heather's aunt and cousin came over and then
they went to Trev's parents)

While we were in Phoenix, Trev golfed!!!, Heather had her 1st massage, we watched 3 movies (Deja Vu, I am Sam and Fool's Gold), we hiked 1 time, Trev hiked 2 times, we went to 1 Diamondbacks vs Nationals Ball game and saw 4 home runs, Trev read 1 book, Heather read 2 books, We both slept in and we went to the 6 pools way more than 10 times.
We really enjoy our time out of town, or even out of our house for a couple of days.
1. We carried on an entire conversation without interruption
2. We get to sleep in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. We eat our meals hot
4. We could drive without the music and without talking for longer then 15 secs
5. We only had to get ourselves ready in the morning
6. We didn't have ANY whining, unless of course it was me:)
7. We were able to watch channels on the TV other than disney before 8pm
8. We got to go to adult restaurants
9. We were the ones that got to take a nap
10. We talked about things besides, "the schedule, who is picking up, what's for dinner, you got bed or dishes??
Don't get me wrong, I missed the kids terribly! It doesn't matter whether we are gone 2 days or 5, the day before we come home I am Always ready to get there as fast as I can to get the kids. We don't call home very often, as to not upset them, so that is kind of hard on me but...
Trev and I sooo love this time together to reconnect and plan out the next year of activities and life. See, going on a trip is about 25% of our conversations throughout the year, 2 months before we go we are talking about all of the stuff, tickets, things to do and 2 months after the trip we are still talking about all of the stuff we did!!
We highly recommend to everyone to get away even if it is just 24 hours.

After hiking 1/2 way up the mountain!
Chase Field Diamondbacks Home! 1st 3 innings roof was closed and it was 77 degrees, Last 6 innings they opend the roof and let the 95 degree weather in??? The opening of the roof was pretty neat to watch.
Our date night at the restaurant on the top of the mountain

"A Different Point of View"
One of the backdrops to one of the pools!!
Not quite Colorado but... still some elevation!!!

If grandkids had come first, us kids would have had it much easier

We are back from 6 days in Colorado. Trev stayed home as he does once a year when we go to Colorado... He watched 3 or 4 movies, golfed and relaxed while we were gone. Oh yeah and he cleaned this messy house we left behind in all of the furry to get packed and ready to go!!

We spent Thurs and Fri just with Grammy and Pop Pop. The kids really wanted to sled because they think that is what you do everytime you go to Colorado. Since there was not any snow on their hill in the backyard we were off to find a hill with snow. About 1/2 hour away there was a perfect hill and the kids got their sledding in... you would think that would have been the highlight of their day but NO... Pop Pop has a thing for mascots... he thinks it is funny to honk, wave or do something in order to get the mascot to wave at our family. So needless to say when he saw a chicken mascot on the side of the road he had to honk, but not once but like 6 times. The chicken did see us and he bowed, which the kids thought was GREAT. We drove by the chicken a total of 3 times (would have been 4 but he was gone) and each time the chicken waved... Pop Pop even rolled down his window so KK could say HI CHICKEN!!! much to my embarrassment in the back seat:) Out of all of the things we did in those 6 days this is still Connor's favorite thing! and it was FREE!

Saturday we picked up Aunt Carrie at the airport and met Uncle Blake in Denver. We went to a firefighter museum... ever in Denver, very kid friendly and after 2 hours we had to pull the kids away. We then went to a restaurant that had a theater stage. The food was bad but the kids liked the shows, the best part is the actors would dive into water, big hit. We then took the kids for their first bowling alley experience... This was not just any ordinary bowling alley, there were couches instead of those funky bowling alley chairs and it looked more like a club then a bowling alley, the prices reflected that too. The kids had a blast. They bowled on each of our turns, so they probably came close to bowling a whole game, which our scores reflected. We said good bye to Uncle Blake after an ice cream stop at McDonalds... it was a short visit with him but quality time which was good.

Sunday it SNOWED at the house so back to sledding... Carrie and I went to lunch and then to see Definitely Maybe... we had fun.

Monday was more sledding and then to Mr. Biggs an indoor play area for the kids.

We had lots of fun in Colorado, this was the first time though that KK realized it was sad to leave. When we got home she said she wanted to move to Colorado, I said what about Pa and Maw Maw and she said she wants everyone to live in one world, her world where she can go to everyones house whenever she wants.

Enjoy the pictures... A couple more than usual but it was 6 days

Oh yeah and we did an easter egg hunt TWO TIMES

for practice for the real thing in 2 weeks.