Vacation?! Yes, please!!

I am sooo excited!! 2 weeks from today, I hope to be on my way to the beach!! And I’m telling you we NEED a vacation!!

This is a pic taken from the balcony of the condo!

Pretty much as soon as we found out I was pregnant, I started trying to plan our next beach visit! I knew I couldn’t go a whole year without at least one trip! And, yes I was just there less than a year ago, but to be honest, our trip last September (during the tropical storm) wasn’t a real beach vaca- since it lacked the sun, and we didn’t get to spend hardly any time on the beach! Plus that trip was a miserable! The tropical storm with all the rain and wind was bad enough, but then that poor kid drowned, and on the way home Stratton got sick- real sick- and that was awful! I hope we have better luck this time around!!

This time it’s just going to be Jarrod, Stratton and myself. We thought we’d better do something just the three of us while we can. We usually like to go with others to the beach, but it just seemed like we should have some family time before the summer and things get real crazy!! And plus, I don’t plan to travel very far after 25 weeks. I think the farthest I will be going is Little Rock to the Dr. and maybe the lake! (I’m even going to miss the Monsanto partner meeting in Kansas City in June- boo!) So it’s now or never for a vacation!

Our plan is to leave Wednesday, the 2nd, around 3pm and drive to Madison, MS and stay the night. Then we will get up and drive the rest of the way on Thursday morning, hopefully getting there around noon or a little after. We are trying to break the trip down there up a little to make it easier on Stratton- and me! And this way we’ll get a little out of the day on Thursday instead of driving all day long and getting there late!

We will be there from Thursday to Tuesday- 5 nights. Which seems weird, I know. But that’s just worked best with Jarrod’s schedule. We are trying to avoid him taking too many days off, since I’d rather him save as many as he can in the event that we have a repeat of what happened when I was pregnant with Stratton.

I am working on an itinerary (you know me, I have to have a plan!) but unless it rains (or we get scorched), I figure we will be spending all our time on the sand! Stratton is already talking about it non-stop!  He asks me almost everyday “We going to the beach tomorrow?”. . .I can’t blame him, I’m really looking forward to it too!!