Our Love and Our Blessing

As soon as we got back from Florida that Sunday evening, Jer left for a one week trial about an hour and a half away.

We picked up Boston, came home, he unloaded his suitcase, re-loaded it and headed out of town. And it never fails, the waterworks turn on. As if he's leaving for months.

Buuutt.....that Tuesday evening I called my sister-in-law to see if she would watch Boston while I went to watch Jer in trial for the first time ever. Most of the time when goes to trial it far away. Too far to drive to. So I knew this was my opportunity to go and watch him. Something I've always wanted to do. My SIL said yes, so that Wednesday evening around 5pm I dropped him off and headed out of town. I got there just in time for the "trial team" to head to dinner and talk about how the day went.

The next morning I was so giddy. Couldn't wait to see how the whole trail process worked. :)

It was a trial filled day. A fun one at that. Later that night we went and had dinner again and then Jer came home to prepare for the last day (closing arguments) of trial. Meanwhile, I couldn't get enough of the Jodi Arias trial so I watched it in bed while he worked. Luckily for me, that night the trial was still going on till late in the evening!

Before trial started that Friday morning, Jer had to prepare a draft of the jury charges. Then he had to argue them in front of the judge.

Thankfully, they got a good jury charge to give to the jury. :)

All rise! The jury is about to walk in and we are about to hear the verdict!

Verdict: we won!! Errr, Jer won!!!! I have to say that the moment before the judge read the verdict I was shaking I was so nervous. Weirdo right here. Not knowing what the jury decided was so nerve wracking. You want to win so bad and you are so nervous they will go the other way. But it all ended well.

We talked with the jury and the judge and then headed back home to pick our baby boy. Needlesss to say, we had a great weekend after that. :)

So we went and came. Just like that it was over.

4 days and 3 nights can go extremely fast when you're having too much fun with your boytoy. Just like the old adage....time flies when you're having fun. Its true. Unfortunately.

So this trip was a little different. It wasn't technically a vacation it was more of a "work/play" trip. See that word work was what took us to Florida. I wrote more about why we went in this post. It wasn't all play. Jer had to attend a few conferences (on average about 2 hours worth) each day. Which wasn't bad at all.

The best part. We took another couple with us. A claims handler that Jer works for. Robert and his wife Jill. I'd never met either of them and Jer had never met Jill. So as you can imagine I was a little nervous wondering if I'd get along with her, especially since we are the wives that would be hanging out together pretty much non-stop while the men attended their conferences.

The clouds parted and the angels sang....and we hit it off immediately!! As soon as we met them at the airport. They were awesome. Like seriously, if I were to choose two people to go on a trip with that I had never met, it would be THEM! And now? I kinda miss being with them. :)

Anyway, back to why this trip was a little different. You see....I usually take about 2 thousand pictures and about a million hours worth of video on our trips (you already know this, though) This time. VERY little video and VERY little "real" pictures with the big camera. Most of these pictures are collectively from mine and Jer's IPHONES!!! Can you believe it?

Didn't think so.

I'm still shocked myself. And I'm not even sure why except for.....I didn't want Jill and Robert to really think I was crazy. They figured out that I was a crazy lady but the whole taking-pictures-of-every-little-thing would have thrown them over the edge. I'm sure of it. So I refrained myself.

So here's what we ended up with. Some pictures from the Nikon and iphones.

A little note I left on the table for Boston to get when he sat down for breakfast.

Kisses galore as we headed out the door to the airport that morning.

Starbucks and my iphone sitting at the airport. Relaxing.

Preparing for take off.

I can't even say enough good things about the resort we stayed at. Amazing is what sums it up.

Boca Raton Resort & Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort

The view from our room. We totally slept with the windows open all night and woke up to the sun shining through and shimmering off the ocean. Dream-like.

Cook-selfies

After the boys attended their meetings that morning, we all headed down the road a few miles to Delray Beach and walked around on the beach and had lunch before we went on our dinner cruise that night.

We could see our dinner cruise boat waiting from our room.

Keurig in our bathroom. I don't even have one in my kitchen! On my Christmas list. :)

The view of the tower from the boat.

Just us again.

Because I'm positive I'll never be back to that resort, I took my obligatory resort pictures for me to remember it by.

One day we went on an Everglades Airboat Tour. Probably the scariest adventure we've ever done. Hands down. I couldn't believe we even paid to put our lives at risk.

We were literally less than 5 feet away from this guy. And the boat did not sit up on the water. You could easily touch the water with your hand without even barely reaching out.