Laugh, Eat....Retreat.

Every now and then it feels good to get away.

Get away from work, the house, running after kids....just about everything.

And you know what's even better? Getting away with your best girlfriends.

The only rules for the weekend:

-1- No real clothes.

-2- No make-up.

-3- No making notice of calories ingested.

-4- Happy hour can begin whenever we say it can.

-5- No keeping track of time.

So we ventured off again to the Bennett cabin, where we hunkered down in our comfy clothes and fuzzy "house socks" (as I call them), and we spent time together doing absolutely nothing. We ate, drank, read magazines, watched movies, played games,...I even learned how to play rummy for the first time. But the best part about the whole scenario is that we didn't feel the need to do anything. When we are all together, there doesn't need to be an agenda or schedule- we are completely comfortable with one another to sit around and do nothing together.

We're sort of like our own little family.

And since we're family, we welcome all newborn babies to the group to join us on our little retreat :-) Avery is only 6 weeks old! What a trouper!

The real mark of a true get-away? No cell phone service. No internet. It just about killed me, but I made it through ;-)

And so, we spent our time talking and laughing together.

Laughing at the babies, laughing at my {absolute} fear of cabin windows that don't lock when you are in the middle of nowhere...and laughing at the fact that I make everyone 'declare' themselves when walking around during the night so that they don't get pepper-sprayed, laughing at Kerri spilling stuff all over her pants, laughing at all our inside jokes, laughing at the fact that Amanda and I cannot survive without making real coffee in the morning before the other girls make a pot of decaf, laughing at the way we were completely winded at the end of our so-called 'walk",...and much more.

Thank you girls for another memory to store away, and here's to many more years together

{more pictures to come soon girls, I'll tell you when I post them}