a getaway

My husband and I were able to get away for the weekend last weekend without the girls.  My parents kept Rachel and Rebecca and we took a mini-road trip.  I won't tell you where we went, but for those of you who know where I live, it was about 2 hours south of us at a city on the river. 

We had a wonderful time.  I'd never left Rebecca, so I was really scared that I was going to spend the whole weekend missing her and worried about her, but I didn't.  Yes, I missed her, and I skyped with my parents a few times so I could see her (and Rachel, too!), but otherwise, I did fine with leaving her.  And the girls did great and were well behaved for Grandma and Grandpa.

Here's a picture taken at a park down by the river.

We didn't have anyone to take our picture, so this was a do it yourself photo with the river behind us.  I kept closing my eyes when I pressed the button so I had to put my sunglasses on so you couldn't tell!

We went to a conservatory in that park and saw some beautiful plants and flowers.

This is at the same park.  It's crooked, and not really a beautiful background, but there was a wall that we could set the camera on (we didn't have a tripod with us) so we tried it.

On the way back home we stopped at a state park.  The next pictures are from there.

We also went out to dinner two nights, saw a movie, went shopping, and basically just had a weekend-long date night!  It was lots of fun and a very, VERY nice break.  The weather was gorgeous, too!  Thank you, Mom and Dad, for taking such good care of my little girls!