5 Year Anniversary Getaway

It was pretty cold last weekend and I was starting to think hell might have frozen over because my husband, yes John Hamra, planned a weekend getaway for our 5 year wedding anniversary. If you know him, you know this never happens! His strength is not in planning. Nevertheless, he not only set up his Mom and Derrick to come watch our boys but booked us a room at Big Cedar Lodge, a couples massage , and organized the day with a visit to Copper Run Distillery (a tradition of ours) and a golf cart tour at Top of the Rock complete with a bottle of the cider we had been saving from our trip to Dallas. I was very impressed! While it was cold, we packed warm clothes and snuggled on our outside tour, it was very romantic. I gotta say, I sure did snag a keeper!

Copper Run stop

I think we deserve this!

Ready to brave the cold

Maybe this will keep me warm

The frozen waterfalls were gorgeous!

I'm a rule breaker, ha!

This stuff is Yummy!

3rd Anniversary Weekend

The print I had made for John -
our wedding song (Adele To Make you feel my love)

John and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary all weekend long with some family time and a quick overnight trip to Branson. Sawyer had gymnastic Saturday morning and John hadn't gotten to see him participate yet, so we started our weekend at his class. He did even better than last week and John loved  getting to see him do the obstacle course and flips.
We have been dying to check out Copper Run Distillery and thought this would be a perfect opportunity. After Sawyer's class, we headed to Copper Run for the tour, tasting and cocktails. We ended up meeting some awesome new friends who invited us to sit with them and try some specialty drinks. We invited them to join us at Stone Hill Winery for their tour and tasting and then to finish the evening at Cantina Laredo for dinner. John and I had reservations at Chateau on the Lake for the night. We decided to head back after dinner for a mean game of Uno at the bar hotel. Thanks to John's mom and step dad (and Cindie) for staying with Sawyer, he had such a fun time!

Sawyer at gymnastics 

getting his sticker

First stop...Copper Run, whiskey tasting

signing the guest book 

The Moonrise was amazing (made with Moonshine)

on to the Tour of the Distillery

Copper Still

Owner and Master Distiller showing us the process

different stages of aging

met a furry friend, or maybe he wanted my Moonrise

Our new friends 

Second stop....Stone Hill Winery

Third stop.....Cantina Laredo on the Landing 

Our home sweet home for the weekend...Chateau on the Lake

such a cool place, will definitely have to bring Sawyer back

Final Stop....some champagne and a game of Uno

We almost got kicked out of the hotel bar for bringing our own Champagne

MEANWHILE AT HOME...... 

Sawyer was being a very helpful older cousin

He even got to see the Turtles at Bass Pro