The Big No-Kid Anniversary Weekend

This past weekend, David and I left the kids with my parents and headed to the town of Saugatuck, on the shores of Lake Michigan.  It. was. amazing.  We spent most of the first night grinning and saying over and over again, "Can you believe we're here WITHOUT kids?!?"

By Saturday morning, we had quickly acclimated to being without kids and spent the day walking through Saugatuck and drinking a LOT of wine (in 1/2 oz samples) at the Fenn Valley Winery festival.

We also got a tour of the vineyard and learned about some of the crazy contraptions they use on the vineyard.

In the evening, after another fabulous meal (calories, schmalories!) we spent two hours hiking along the shoreline and then watched a gorgeous sunset.

And all weekend long we ate like there was no such thing as a food allergy.  If it had real butter or eggs or nuts in it (or better yet, all three!!!), we ordered it.  And frequently photographed it, so we could later reminisce.  "Remember that one time, at the B&B, how we ate blueberry pancakes?  With real butter?  Or that time I had ice cream?  REAL ice cream?  With pecans in it?"

We returned to pick up the kids to find that my parents had run the kids ragged (and vice versa!) with trips to parks, baseball in the yard, bike riding and more. 

And they had missed us, and we had missed them, but that perfect amount of missing -- enough that you are happy to be reunited but not so much that you would change any of it.  It was a fantastic weekend that left me feeling so lucky to be married to a phenomenal guy, to have these two incredible kids and to have awesome parents who let us get away from our two incredible kids for a little while!