Best Laid Plans

We were supposed to be landing in Dallas right about now. Instead, we're sitting in a Holiday Inn Express while the hubby watches The Dukes of Hazzard on TV and I upload pictures, blog, and listen to Babe on my laptop (it's a guilty pleasure -- I love this movie).

We just spent 5 days in Sonoma with daily trips to Napa. We obtained the start of a decent wine collection; I joked that some of the bottles we bought will be opened at our first child's graduation from high school! We had a great time and really got to reconnect during this trip. While we were there, we celebrated our one year anniversary! It's hard to believe that it's already been one year. So much has happened since then! It's been the hardest but also the best year of my life.

With this weather delay, we've had to shift plans around quite a bit already. Our original flight was to leave at 5:20 PM Wednesday. We tried to book seats on the 12:55 AM flight, but by the time we got through to the helpdesk, that flight was booked. We were then put on an 8 AM flight with a layover that put us into Dallas at 4:35 PM, and we weren't even going to be able to sit together. After getting to the hotel, I found a direct flight leaving around 11:15 AM and landing at 4:45 PM. Thankfully we were able to get 2 seats together on the direct flight! We were supposed to have our final walk at our house at 9 AM tomorrow and close at 11 AM. Now our builder is staying late so that we can have our walk after we land (hopefully around 5:30 PM), and we plan to close at 9 AM Thursday morning. If all goes well, we will rush back to the apartment to meet the movers between 12 and 2 PM. Then I go back to work on Friday and work over the weekend as well (at least no call!). At dinner tonight, the hubby reminded me that all things work together for good and that even though we can't see it now, we know God has a purpose for this.

Here are a few pictures from the trip:

The view from Silverado Winery

The courtyard at Silverado

We stayed on the second floor of this cottage.

The dessert from our anniversary dinner

Our new favorite winery -- here we received an hour long one-on-one tour for less than the price of a single tasting at some of the other vineyards. Best of all, the wine was phenomenal!

Frog's Leap, the winery that made the wine we drank the night we got engaged

True love