Weekend Away

I had the luxury of getting to get away last weekend. I have been wanting to go down to Oregon to visit my sister Rachael and needed to do so soon before it was too late to travel. So Rach and I decided on a date only to realize later that it was Mother's Day weekend. I decided to go ahead and go anyway and in the words of Rachael "Isn't the most relaxing Mother's Day one away from the Children?"
The weekend before I actually decided to go for the day to Portland to shop as my Mom and Hannah were headed down for Friends and Family at Macy's-and of course to see Rach. I figured it will be a while before I am able to do this again so I did not feel too guilty about it. It was a great day only to be stopped short when the power went out in the mall. We were in Macy's when it first went out,but then quickly came back on. Only to go out again about a half hour later and did not come back on. Eventually the stores made people leave so we headed out of town-took a while as everyone was leaving the mall at the same time.
Ok back to my weekend-Kevin took Friday off and I headed out that morning. Kevin left slightly before me to take the kiddos fishing at Sportsman Park-I guess it is a pond or something that you can take kids fishing. They met up with Brent and Emmett for awhile and apparently both Roc and Emmett ended up falling in the water! That night Ella was invited to a friends party so that gave Kev and the Kiddos something to do. I spent Friday shopping and getting some tax free deals and then met up with Rach after school got out. We then met up with her fiancee Rajaleo (I don't think I have spelled this right?) and went to Baja Fresh for dinner! Yummy-I love their fresh salsa bar. Saturday Rach and I did some wedding shopping and other shopping that needed to get done. I was on the hunt for some maternity clothes. I did not find much but I think I have enough to get me through the next couple of months. Then we met up with Rajaleo and went to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner and a bit more shopping. Sunday I did some shopping of my own at FM (my favorite store :)) and got some good tax free bargains while Rach was at church. Then met up with the newly engaged and did a bit more shopping. Then I headed out of town. Kevin took the kiddos up to Abby's on Sunday for the afternoon as the family got together up there to celebrate Mother's Day. They took the jeep up and Sadie brought hers too-so the kiddos had a great time driving the jeeps all around. It was a really nice relaxing weekend and was nice to be able to go without worrying about the kiddos. Kevin did a great job with them and the kiddos did fine too! Here are some cute pics of the kiddos fishing and hanging out at the Hoefer's on Mother's Day. Also a video of Ella fishing.