weekend getaway

It has been a long time since the husband and I have gone away together. Actually, we have not gone away since long before Zoey was born - you know, back when we didn't really need to get away. SO, when the husband asked what I wanted for Christmas this year, I told him I wanted something BIG and that he had my permission to combine it with an anniversary gift: a short trip away. My only requirements were that the getaway had to be TWO nights(as opposed to only one) and that HE had to do the planning.

We went. Away. Alone. It was heaven.

We slept - really slept. We ate my favorite food in the world - twice. We went to the D.C. Temple. We shopped. We talked. We kissed. We reminisced. We stayed at a fancy schmancy hotel. They upgraded us to the presidential suite and the shower was bigger than our entire bathroom at home and the private rooftop patio was big enough to entertain all our closest friends, had they been there. Which they weren't. Thankfully.

We watched movies and cuddled. I didn't do my hair or make-up. I turned my brain OFF and it stayed that way until we arrived home. Did I mention it was heaven?

 Where were our girls, you ask? With these people, who continue to love us and our daughters. Though we really do not deserve them, we love and appreciate their family SO much.