Marriage Retreat at St. Simons!

Our church hosted a marriage retreat at St. Simon's, Georgia at the beginning of March. Tommy and I went to St. Simon's back in September for a weekend getaway and loved it, and we will take any chance to get away together, so we quickly signed up. My parents love to come and spend time with the girls, so we asked them if they would stay with them while we went to the retreat. It was only one night away, so we were able to come back and spend some time with Mom and Dad too. We left Friday morning so Tommy could play golf with men from the church. I jumped at the chance for some alone time and went to the Kind and Prince spa for a massage and then went for a run around the island. I love to run and St. Simons provided beautiful moss lined, shady roads for me to run on. A nice change of pace from Jacksonville. We both had a great time doing our own thing, and then met back up that afternoon. We went to Bennie's Red Barn for dinner with our Sunday School class and then went to the first session of the retreat Friday night for a couple of hours. On Saturday the retreat lasted until lunch time, and after that we went to the village and had lunch outside. We couldn't leave town without going by Southern Soul Barbecue and picking up some barbecue and okra for dinner with my parents that night. It is the best barbecue I've ever had and that is saying a lot for a Carolina girl.

Here is a picture someone took of us at the retreat. We are in serious deep discussion as I lay down the law for Tommy. Just kidding. It was very light discussion and we had fun laughing at ourselves.

My parents had so much fun with the girls. They spent some time outside playing at the sand table.

They brought Caroline some of her very own bunny slippers to walk in. They jingle and she absolutely loves walking in them. They were a little slippery on the bottom, but I used my hot glue gun to put some grippers on the bottom. Seriously, the hot glue gun is on the mommy's must have list.

We gave my Mom her Birthday gifts while she was here. Some Marc Jacob's perfume and a book of our most recent family pictures. Lyla loved helping Mom open her gifts.