We had the best trip to Naples, FL for our anniversary. It was definitely just what we needed, and we enjoyed every minute. You know it’s been a good trip when you feel refreshed and ready to come back home at the end of it. Missing our sweet babies might have had a little to do with that, but it really was the perfect getaway.
Here are a few pictures of the house we stayed in. It was wonderful, and we were definitely spoiled!
Our own heated pool and hot tub!
Dinner our first night at a restaurant called Pinchers. It was right on the bay which was pretty cool. It was also part of place called Tin City that had several little shops to walk around.
After dinner, Murray challenged me to a tackiest outfit contest… It was close (especially with that nasty alligator claw necklace), but he said I won. 
On our actual anniversary, we decided to brave the Everglades and headed south to go on a kayak tour. I don’t know why I didn’t think about how scary this actually was before we got there, but being that close to BIG alligators in a tiny kayak was a little unnerving- especially since my previous kayaking experience didn’t leave me with much confidence in my kayak skills! It worked out fine though… we saw a lot of cool things, didn’t get eaten by alligators, and were still on good terms when it was over. I will say that Murray was pretty funny because anytime we came near an alligator, he would tell me to put my paddle in the boat and just let him do it. Haha.
We got back in time to nap, clean up, and head out to an incredible steak restaurant! It was so delicious and such a great way to end our night and 5 years of marriage together! They even went to the trouble to have white roses there for me like my wedding bouquet! JK, but I told myself that anyway.
Isn’t he so cute?!?!
Random, AMAZING sand castle on the side of the road.
We went down to visit the Naples Pier. It was such a cool place and wonderful weather!
We saw dolphins…
pelicans catching fish…
and a random guy who must have thought he was in Jersey (check out that hair!)…
Like I said before, it was a wonderful trip and just enough time away. It did help a little bit that we needed to get back to watch Cole play Toddler Jesus in the nativity play at church Sunday morning! He did so good and looked so cute!
Thanks again to my sweet Momma for taking such good care of our kiddos so that we could relax and not worry about them!
Also BIG thank you for having Cole potty trained when we came back… I was just kidding when I put that in a previous post, but it came true! Cole has been in big boy underwear for over 2 weeks now!!! I had asked Mom to talk to him a lot about being Toddler Jesus so he would be ready for Sunday, and they apparently talked about how he would have used the potty and not a diaper like Baby Jesus. Cole decided that he needed to use the potty and wear big boy underwear then. So thank you Momma & thank you to those in charge of the church play who asked him to be Toddler Jesus… it changed our lives more than you can imagine! Haha.
