La-La girls reunite! - inside joke:)

This blog entry is a month past due - opps! Barb Smith, Beki VanMeter and myself all became great friends when we all lived in Decatur. October 2006 Barb and Beki came to visit me in Michigan and we decided to make our girly get-together an annual event. Unfortunately 2007 zoomed by and we didn't make it happen...so we decided that we'd better boogie before I have another baby that requires Mommy for every meal. :) So Beki and I found a good airfare and flew out Thursday morning and home Sunday afternoon. Our 4 days were packed with so much fun, laughs and creative inspiration - we are already looking forward to meeting in Decatur in 09. Barb was a fabulous hostess and treated us to great restaurants, shopping, a day at the beach, an amazing art show and even chauffeured us to special meeting on Sunday!

Our day at the beach was so amazing. It was quite windy - but the sun was shining and we didn't have any strollers, sippy cups or sticky kids! Wowzer!

And it ended in one of several awesome restaurant meals we had that weekend. Such a treat for 3 stay at home moms to not ask for a kids menu and crayons at every stop.

I realized that we haven't said or posted much about the belly/baby #4 - this pregnancy has gone crazy fast. We are so distracted that until this point of waddling everywhere I would half forget I was pregnant. Barb has a fancy schmancy camera and likes to dabble in photography - so she suggested some belly shots at the beach - never a better background.

Fun shadow!

The photographer - up on the lifeguard stand all for a great picture!

Thanks again Barb for such an amazing break. That treat was enough to help me sail through the birth of another baby and hopefully the first few tired weeks. For those of you wondering - we hired a babysitter for Thursday and Friday when Don was at work - but other than that he was flying solo. Even got everyone up, dressed, hair done and to meeting on time on Sunday! IMPRESSIVE!

The gold stars just piled up behind his name for that 4 day vacation.