I escaped into the woods for a backcountry dinner date with this cutie last weekend to celebrate our anniversary - our SIX year anniversary! Time is flying. Especially these days with two little ones at home, so what we were really needing on our anniversary this year was time alone together to just slow down and rest. The kind of rest that can only be found outdoors.
Every year we take turns for who plans our anniversary date and this year it was my turn. I had ran this new trail just out of town with a running group last year but my husband hadn't been on it yet so I figured it was the perfect place to go check out! It's a 5km trail that connects the riverside park that we got married at to the ski hill, and we hiked to the halfway point where there is a picnic table set up at a beautiful look-out spot of the river. This is the view:
The night that my husband proposed to me he cooked chicken alfredo at our hostel in New Zealand then packed it in to a beautiful beach for a picnic dinner, and I wanted this anniversary to be reminiscent of that night so we packed in our backcountry stove and everything we needed to cook chicken alfredo. Everything except for a stirring spoon that is, haha. We made do with a plastic fork that was mostly melted by the time dinner was ready :)
^^ happiest outdoors ^^
I baked brownies and made creamy decaf coffee for dessert. The weather had just started to cool off by the time we were having dessert so steaming hot coffee was the perfect treat.
^^ I like that the steam was caught in this shot ^^
We hiked back out the way we came until we got back to water level, then we bushwhacked a bit to the river bank and walked the rest of the way along the shore. It was so peaceful, especially because we left both the 3 year old AND the baby at home. I had been really hesitant to leave Sullivan behind. I've been experiencing some separation anxiety this time around that I didn't really have with Emery, I don't know why! Family members offered to watch him for us but I kept refusing, insisting that I would just wear him in the Ergo carrier and he would sleep and we wouldn't really even notice he's there. Although that is probably true, when we went to drop Emery off at my parents for our date and my husband found out that my parents had been wanting to keep Sully too he drove back to our house and grabbed frozen milk and bottles for them, ha! I had no choice but to leave him then, and it was for the best. I guess I was needing a little break from him, and time alone with hubby is important too - especially on an anniversary!
Here's to many more adventures, with - and without - babies in tow!
xo.
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