intro to Florida...

so a few weeks ago, Brett and I went to Florida. alone. with no Dylan. yeah, for those of you who have kids, you understand what a big deal that is. and a side note, Orlando is where B and i went on our honeymoon 5 years ago this year, so that place has special meaning to us. and oh my stars, this trip did not disappoint. it was about 1000x better than the ol' honeymoon. not that our honeymoon was bad, it was awesome; but just between us girls (and guys i guess?), knowing what to do and how to do it makes a honeymoon-like trip go much smoother and makes things much more fun the second time around. you catch my drift? oh how i wish i could go back. i would give almost anything. almost. it was THAT good.

i have been wanting to post about our fabulous trip, but the thought of doing it seemed so overwhelming. we were there for a full 7 days. 7 glorious, amazing, sun-filled and humidified days. and we took hundreds of pictures. that's not estimating. that's actual. hundreds upon hundreds. we wanted to document every single second of our trip, as if taking photos every minute would take us back there whenever we looked at them. and they do. and i love it.

i am super excited to blog about this because while we were there we didn't Facebook, and we didn't Instagram. we just were. us. nobody else. without electronics and people buzzing in our ears. it was Brett's idea to go phone-less (except if we were calling to check on Dylie, which we did, a lot, every day) and I am so glad he brought up the idea and that I went along with it. if you know me, you know I love taking photos, (obviously, i kinda have my own photo biz) not just of others, but of me and my little family and sharing it with my friends. so you can imagine how weird it was at first for me not to share all the photos we were taking. but after a day or two, i didn't miss it. i liked it. it was amazing to be truly living in the moment, not for Instagram or Facebook, but for me and my mr. just being, and documenting just being. we made so many fun memories that weren't shared with the world the minute they happened, and i loved that feeling. knowing those times were just ours. there is something so fabulous about that thought, especially since my life has been so not that way ever since i joined Facebook. i like sharing, but this trip made me truly realize, that not sharing is almost even more special. don't get me wrong, i will still be sharing a lot. i just like too. that's just me. but probably not as much. i liked keeping our trip private. it made it so much more fun.

but, i would like to blog about it so those of you who have been constantly asking to hear all about it can. but more than that, i want to blog about it to document it so we don't forget it. we have the pictures to look back on to take us back, but lots of little things happened in between the photos or while we were taking them, that i don't want to forget. lots of conversations, laughs, cuddles, silences shared that were more intimate than words could be. so much that wasn't documented in the photos. writing it down can take us back there in a way photos alone aren't able too.

so, if you are still interested in seeing and hearing all about our trip, come back and visit throughout this next week. i am planning on breaking it up into a few posts, so i can get lots of details in. if it's sounding too mushy or boring for you, i will be back the week after to post about regular day to day stuff :) but just so you know, we are kind of cute when we are mushy. and i won't share all the mushy stuff. just a little bit of it. and of course i will share all the fun, silly, Mickey & Minnie, hilarious, yummy food and 95% humidity, and appropriate stuff, which is like, 70% of our trip ;)

buckle up kids.

Leaving Utah...