Tidden Tales: October 2010

This past weekend was a dream!!! I knew that we were headed out of town to spend some time together to celebrate our anniversary! This was Jonathan's year to plan out and decide what we were going to do so he made it all a surprise and boy did he do good! It started off with knowing that my in-laws were coming into town to watch Jocelyn and my mom (amazingly) helping me clean, prep Jocelyn's food, and just get everything ready for visitors so I wouldn't be stressed out! (BIG THANKS!) So Friday evening Grandma, Grandpa and Uncles Tylar and Micah arrived and spoiled Jocelyn immediately, which she just soaked up! We grabbed a quick dinner and a tiny shopping spree and Jonathan told me my one clue ... "everything that I thought I knew about this weekend, wasn't true!" Hmmmm ok!
So Saturday morning rolled around and off we went to head off for "San Antonio" but first we had to stop by Regina's to pick up my gift. I let Jonathan know that I knew my gift was as big as half the size of the trunk, because he put all our luggage on the right side and left the left side open! He laughed at my detective skills! So we get to Regina's and he wouldn't let me go inside to say hi". I'm sitting in the car waiting and their garage door opens. Yay, I get to say good morning to Owen and Regina, but wait.... why do they have luggage..... oh no way.... you guys are coming with us !!! So part 1 of the surprise was two great friends traveling with us to some unknown destination!
In the car, I get my next surprise, an envelope. In it are 4 tickets and some event info. We are headed to the Gruene Music, Wine and Art Festival for the weekend!!! Let me let you in on a little secret... I have been wanting to go to Gruene since I moved to Corpus in 2004, I wanted to enjoy the town and most importantly take a little spin on the dance floor, so this was a perfect weekend that was put together by my husband with a little (maybe alotta) help from Regina! We stayed at a quaint little B&B that was right next to a Piano Bar (another one of my favorites, come on, who doesn't love to do a little group karaoke!)
The weekend was filled with walking, wine tasting, looking at arts and crafts, playing with puppies, talking, enjoying the country shops, eating, taking a spin on the Gruene dance hall floor, laughing, scooping up an older gentleman whose knee gave out while Owen (the paramedic) walked by obliviously (love ya Owen), and an amazing Saturday night dinner on the back patio of The Gristmill restaurant. The weekend was amazing and went by all too fast, but it was a great celebration of the past three years that we have been married and I couldn't have asked for more (cheesy right?) Thanks honey!