Our Weekend Getaway

 We needed to get away! I feel like we, as a family, have been flying in all different directions the last couple of weeks and I needed a couple of days of just us time.  So, we loaded up and headed to Atlanta for the weekend. Our first stop was IKEA, where we ate lunch and spent way to much money on home goods. And then we drove further north to check into our hotel room and head on into Stone Mountain for the laser and fireworks show.  Usually, when we spend the whole day at Stone Mountain and try to stay for the show, Annagrace falls asleep before it can even start. Since we hadn't had a very tiring day we went on to see it while she was still awake.  Both girls stayed awake through the whole thing and then crashed in the car on the way back to the hotel.

 The next morning we went to Stone Mountain. Annagrace got to help pick the order of the activities for the day. We were pleasantly surprised to find extra things going on for their "Spring Break Extravaganza" (or whatever it was called)

 Emmalee enjoined riding in her new hiking back pack. She chilled out in her shades, under the shade.

 this is the reason they are called my monkeys - they act like monkeys all of the time

 Up first was the skylift to the top!

 It was such a beautiful day, we could see all of downtown ATL from the Mtn.

 While Annagrace and Tyler did a few holes of miniature golf, Emmalee and I sat down for a snack and got lunch ready.

 We ate our lunch on the train - easy to please peanut butter sandwiches.

 AND chocolate Twizzlers.

 Then we sat down in a big tent for a baby animal show. We (by we I mean Annagrace) got to touch and/or look at a baby porcupine, baby alligator, baby hedgehogs, and a baby kangaroo. Everytime the host would say, "My next animal has fur." Annagrace would lean over and say "I think it's going to be a baby camel." Hmmm . . . really? 

 They also had a big tent with just simple activities for free play: large blocks, coloring, puppet show, and other random things.

 Outside the barn, they tried to pump some water but, I think that well has run dry.

 To finish off our day we stopped outside the museum and took some cute shots of the girls. They are growing  up WAY too fast.

What a funny girl!

We stopped back by IKEA on the way home, we wanted to pick up some more of their delicious Swedish Marshmellows!! You have GOT to try them. YUM!! By the time we got home both girls were sound asleep so we just crawled right on into bed.