I Am My Beloved's and My Beloved Is Mine~Song Of Solomon

Weekend at Cannon Beach!

Shane and I finally got away for a weekend together, after nearly 7 years! I was a nervous wreck, and a couple of days before we left I wanted any excuse to either take the kids with us, or stay home. Neither of those things happened and last Friday morning Shane and I left for Cannon Beach, Oregon. We have always loved our road trips together. We used to take them all the time when we were dating, and before we had children. Getting away together was one of the best things we've done in a very long time. I feel like we rejuvenated our love, friendship, marriage, it was bliss! Just to really focus on each other was great, to start and end a conversation without any interruptions, to NOT be on any schedule at all...the toughest decision we had to make for 3 days was what, when, and where we'd eat =) We stayed in an amazing hotel that completely pampered us. The pampering included things like~turning down our bed at night and placing handmade chocolates on our pillow, complementary dvd's delivered to our room, homemade chocolate chip cookies, tea/coffee available 24/7, stocked our fridge each day with beverages of our choice, complementary cheese wine every evening, and the most delicious breakfast I've ever had. The breakfast had every kind of fresh fruit you can imagine, homemade granola, pastries, breads, floretine egg scrammble(they switched it up each day,) peppered bacon, irish oatmeal, fresh squeezed juices, organic coffee/tea. It was seriously out of this world! Our room was 30 feet from the beach, it was so beautiful. The tide was so high the entire time it was unreal. We've always gone down in the summer so this was an entirely different season for us to be down there. It rained the majority of the time, but we were prepared and that didn't keep us away from the beach, day hikes, and walking around the quaint little town. I included a lot of landscape pictures in the slideshow. I wanted you all to see how amazing one of the hikes we went on was. We hiked through a lush forest to get down to the beach. It was so beautiful, at the end of the trail, it opened up to the ocean. There was a river and small creeks running through the forest leading to the ocean. The trees were HUGE, you'll notice some pictures with Shane standing next to them.

One of the other highlights of my mini vacation was spending an evening with one of my longest, most dear, best friends in my world, April. We have been bestee's for 20 years! We've gone through so many chapters of LIFE together. I miss her so much but we've managed to make our friendship a priority in spite of not living in the same town. We plan on seeing April and her sweet family again this summer!

While our time away couldn't have been more perfect, we were ready to get back home to our 2 little sweethearts. We missed the kids, and our family time, chaos and all ;)