Mini-Vacay

This past weekend, Natalie and I loaded up our girls (and a ton of other stuff!) to head out to her parents lake house! And let me tell you, I was excited. Just getting out of town and doing something different, for cheap!, nice!! Well.. could have been a lot cheaper.. but, I'll get to that :)

Natalie picked us up about 3:00, and thats when we noticed we had two very cranky kiddos.. so, we stopped at CFA to let them out and eat! Made all the difference a little down the road! So, we really got on the road about 4.

Natalie with our sweet tea!
See what I mean about cranky?? Finally calming down with some toysLola's turnAubrey getting excited that we're almost to the house!
When we got to the house we just hung out and piddled around for a bit before heading to the store to stock up for the weekend. Came back to the house, fixed dinner and then attempted some pictures outside. I'm pretty sure Natalie did alot better than me.
She's super fast. Bed time did not go so well for Aubrey.. I blame it on a new environment. She fought me for quite a while, which I ended up laying down with her to get her to sleep. Oh well.

Saturday we all slept in a bit (I think that was my favorite thing from the whole weekend!! haha!). And, we immediately noticed a difference in the girls when they wake up! Aubrey, still pretty laid back and needs her space. Lola, not! LOL! Poor Lola just wanted to play with Aubrey so bad and kept pulling on her to go play and was just excited to see her, and Aubrey was just not interested. At one point, completely ignored her! It was pretty funny. These girls are almost as opposite as their mommas are with each other! haha! But somehow, we all work :)

After breakfast, we fixed ourselves up for some antique shopping!! I found a cool piece of wall decoration for $12. The girls started to melt down, so we loaded back up and just started to drive when we decided to stop at some of the garage sales we kept seeing. (we're in East Texas.. very country!) These sales were better than the antique stores! I got milk glass bowl/vase thing for $3, a metal butterfly to hang on Aubrey's wall for .25 cents and another "thing" for the wall for $1! Natalie.. made off a whole lot better though!! I'll let you check out her blog to see her great deals! At one sale, there was a big sink sitting on the ground and these two boys were sitting in either side.. super country and super cute! This is the kinda stuff that was at these sales! haha. But, garage sale-ing is going to be our main focus next time! :)

In front of the antique store.. doesn't she look so different??
Headed back home for naps for the girls, who both were asleep at the same time! At which point we realized we didn't plan for that and didn't know what to do with ourselves! lol. So, we just sat and talked and watched some HGTV! ;)
When the girls woke, swimming! Let's just say, its a good thing neither of us has twins! It was a bit of a feat keeping up with those two. Aubrey had no fear and kept wanting to walk off the big platform (it was in water) into the big pool area. After about an hour she started to calm down a bit, with the help of a cup of ice! :) Lola was so much more cooperative! We'll see how she does in a few more months though, heehee :) Pool time was definitely fun, hopefully us mommas got a little sun?!

Great pic!
After swimming, showers and off to Tyler for dinner! Decided on Olive Garden, yum. Aubrey definitely got the points there, although, Lola got points any time we were in the car! haha! Me and Natalie indulged ourselves with the Italian Cream Soda drink.. delicious!!
After dinner, Marshalls! Both splurged a bit.. but, totally worth it :)
Back home for bedtime for the girls.
Sunday, lazy morning. Loaded up everything- which was alot more going home!! Headed to Canton for some of the little shops there and lunch. We decided going to First Monday with the girls in that heat would be disastrous! Neither of us bought anything there, except for a not so great lunch at Taco Bell/KFC!


waiting for natalie while she went in the store. had to take turns since the good child was sleeping! haha.
Back home around 3:30? Really quick timing.
And, of course I had been trying to get Aubrey to nap the whole ride home, which she never did.. until we were turning on our street!! Good thing she stayed asleep inside! :)

Great time of relaxation and just going with the flow!
Next time- No kids!! :)