Jared, Lucrisha, & Leylan

This weekend was our 5 year anniversary. It is so hard to believe it has been that long. You really don't realize how fast time goes by until you get older. Jared so graciously agreed to take me back to IKEA in Atlanta for that day. Jared thought about staying all night there, but I told him I wasn't ready for that. We went there for the first time while I was prego to purchase Leylan's furniture. It sounded like a great idea. I was so excited to go back and this time it was for us bedroom furniture. The plan was to take Leylan to Joe & Edna's early and come back that night to get him. Well that plan really got messed up. We got to IKEA about 12:30. Things were still going well at that point. We looked at everything. I couldn't decided between two dressers. I finally decided after hours of looking in the store. We got the warehouse part to pick up our items the first thing was the dresser and they were out. Well out of the stock that they use for that day. They had several on the third shelf, but they don't get those items down during store hours. I was very upset. I decided I would get the same dresser in a different color and move on. Then the nightstand I wanted was oversold as well. This wasn't looking very good. Next up was the bed and they were out of the side rails. I told Jared maybe we are just not supposed to get this stuff. I really wanted to cry after the drive and leaving Leylan I wasn't even going to get the items I wanted. Jared of course calmed me down like usual. We decided to put the bed back and just get the two dressers. We got all the way to the checkout line and I changed my mind. I said let's just wait. Then I think Jared wanted to cry after all that drama. This is just the way things go. So we ended up getting to storage units for Jared, mirror, and some picture frames. At least we didn't leave empty handed. By the time all that craziness was over it was getting late and we needed to eat. I had a awful headache. We stopped in downtown Chattanooga to eat at Sticky Fingers it was on hour wait. Instead of waiting we decided to just go to the other one closer in. At that time we knew that Leylan was probably getting low on food because we hadn't planned for him to stay all night. Jared called and he had enough for the morning. We wouldn't be home until 1 or so. At dinner we sat and tried to decided about leaving our little guy. Neither one of us wanted to, but we were both worn out and had a load of stuff in Edna's explorer we would still have to take home in order to get my Escape and Leylan. Therefore, we decided to just let him stay with them. It was our anniversary and you think it should be a romantic time, but I guess after 5yrs and a little one your priorities defiantly change. Well we were at least together for that day. The best part of the whole thing was going to get Leylan the next morning. He saw me and gave me the biggest smile. It made me forget about the bad IKEA experience until they asked us about what happened.