Weekend in Ohio

This past weekend we went back to Ohio to visit family. Friday, we spent a lot of time at Grandpa and Grandma Chaney’s house. We sat and visited and reminisced on different things that have happened in the past, talked about why Grandpa stopped smoking. It’s kind of a cute story; he quit smoking because he doesn’t like paying taxes and decided this was one tax he didn’t have to pay. This went into effect January 1st, so he smoked up until then, but after that New Year’s Eve he quit cold turkey. After our visit with them, we drove to Fort Loramie and met Dad and Ann at the German Festival. It was fun and Luke was able to enjoy some yummy German beers and food. The potato soup was to die for! Saturday we spent the day watching Amy tear it up on the volleyball court. Saturday night we had a lovely dinner with Mom, Grandpa and Grandma Hoying at Outback Steakhouse. Another great visit with Grandparents where we reminisced on past events, shared stories, and talked about the different happenings in our family. Sunday, unfortunately, Luke and I had to travel back to good ole Alabama.

Last Beach Trip of the Summer?

One of the only advantages of living in Montgomery, Alabama is the fact that we are 3hours from the beach. Two weekends ago, Luke and I decided to take advantage of this and spent 3 days in Destin, FL, one of our absolute favorite places on the Gulf. We had a fun and relaxing time. Since I spend so much time in Birmingham, I have a lot of hotel points, so every time we venture down there we use my Hilton Honor points and our hotel room is free! I would say this was probably our most fun visit to Destin. Friday, we spent the day on the beach and the weather was perfect. It wasn’t too hot, and there was a nice breeze. Friday night we decided to have a date night and went to Ruth Chris. It was absolutely wonderful, we had a saxophone player serenading the crowd who was very good, and the food was amazing as per usual. Saturday, we got up and drove to Fort Walton; they have a lot of fun restaurants on the beach. We parked along the boardwalk and spent a few hours on the beach and when we had had enough, went to one of the fun seaside restaurants, sat on the deck in the shade and listened to the waves. It was especially nice because they were broadcasting all the college football games. Saturday night we went to Howl at the Moon, a dueling piano bar. (I love dueling piano bars!).This one was a lot of fun because they played more instruments then just the pianos, and they did fun routines. Sunday, we decided we wanted a few more hours on the beach since the weather had been so wonderful. We spent another hour and half relaxing on the beach, came back to the room, got ready and went to the outlets before we headed back home. We didn't take many pictures from this weekend, I guess that's what happens when you have a really good time.

A few key highlights from the weekend; I stepped on a dead jellyfish, when Luke told me I was standing on said jellyfish I screamed and jumped, naps everyday (key!), I almost fell off the elliptical in the hotel gym, Luke’s great idea to get a bottle of Captain Morgan to spike our Diet Pepsi’s from Taco Bell (ha-ha!) while sitting on the beach, and Luke of course, doing pull-up’s any chance he could in the hotel.


Jellyfish! Yuck


Luke and I are a little red...we bought sunscreen after the second day.