5 Year Anniversary!

I’m way late on this post but I thought late was better than not at all. Clint and I have been married 5 years. That means we have been together for 6 years. 6 years?!?!?!? It doesn’t seem possible! I feel like I have the best marriage, a wonderful husband, a perfect little boy and a great life all together. I am so blessed! Our anniversary weekend started out rough. I called Clint to tell him how excited I was to have reserved a room at the Zermatt Resort. It’s a 5 star resort up in Midway, which is where my little sister Kelli lives. I thought it would be perfect to stay there since Kelli and Aaron were hosting Bode’s first sleep over. At the boys’ softball game a few days earlier my brother in law Aaron and their friend were saying how great it was and we kind of went over prices and other details. Clint’s been to a work conference there and agreed it was pretty nice. I assumed we were on board to stay there and Clint had an idea of the price it would be. We had an original amount of money we were planning to spend for the weekend, but we also didn’t have a truck payment that month. We had paid off a huge chunk the month before so we didn’t have to pay that month. Clint asked how much the room was and FREAKED OUT. I mean got mad - said cancel that right away mad. I thought it was an extremely great deal considering the package included an awesome room, dinner at the amazing seafood buffet, breakfast, and money towards the spa. Apparently, Clint thought it was an outrageous deal and wondered why I didn’t try to lower the price when I made the reservation. How can you negotiate a 5 star resort? It’s not like a motel 8 we are talking about. I was pretty upset and Clint didn’t care about any other details but the price. I read on their website there was a no refund policy on reservations, and I gave the lady my debit card info over the phone. I really thought there was no way to cancel, but I told Clint I would try and got off the phone. I couldn’t help but cry as soon as I got off the phone because I couldn’t believe how mad he was at me! He never gets mad at me. Almost immediately my sister Kelli texts me and says something along the lines of oh hey I just saw I missed your call what’s up. Well, I called her to tell her how excited I was about Zermatt! Then I told her what Clint said and that I was trying to cancel now. Kelli was on my side and thought it was an amazing deal for everything included and didn’t see why Clint was so upset! Aaron was even saying what is wrong with Clint, we just talked about this the other day and he seemed like he knew about the prices! Aaron said he’d give Clint  $50 just to keep it if that was the only reason. It’s not that we didn’t have the money.. Clint is always wanting to save everything. I 100% agree saving money is a good thing, but HELLO this was our very first night alone, without Bode, since he was born!! Well- besides the first month of his life when we had to leave him in the NICU every night which was torture.. but anyways.. I called the resort back and got a message. Clint called me around this time asking if I had cancelled already. I said that no I tried but got a message and I didn’t even know if I could cancel it anyway. I kept trying and the lady was so busy she hadn’t even ran the card or done anything. SO she cancelled it. I was so upset and I texted Clint, “It’s cancelled. If you want to do anything this weekend it’s on you because I am not planning anymore.” I was pretty sad and figured he wouldn’t do anything and we’d just stay home. He responded, “Done!” in like 10 minutes. I didn’t ask for details or anything I didn’t really care at that point. I told Kelli he probably got us a reservation at the nearest KOA campground for all I knew. Turns out he got us a really great room at the cutest bed and breakfast ever. It was beautiful! I was giddy with excitement when we started walking around and got the tour. Clint was able to fish (which he claims he didn’t know… yeah right! He only caught one fish though and it was a white fish which he says is more like a negative 1.) and I took pictures of everything. It was the perfect place for us. Our room was amazing,they had a canoe and a paddle boat and 15 acres of land to walk around on. We saved about $70 from my original plans, which I didn’t think was even a big deal. Clint thought he was so cool for arranging that place and saving money and wants to make it a yearly tradition. He did agree he was really rude to me about my plans though. I knew he was upset over the price, but man he was mean about it! I don’t even know why I’m sharing this whole story but now that I’ve typed it out I don’t want to delete it all and restart the post! Here are a bunch of pictures. :)

 

 

 

Thanks so much Kelli and Aaron for letting Bode stay the night! I hear he had a great time playing with Kaylan until 11:30pm when he finally crashed on the floor. :)