anniversary weekend {memphis, TN}

Five years ago on May 27, 2006, in front of God, family and friends, we made it official! We celebrated our 5 yr. anniversary with a little weekend getaway to Memphis! Our first time to leave the kids for several days in a row! Thank you Noonie & Mimi for taking care of them so we could enjoy some alone time!!

We packed a lot in just 3 days, like eating the famous burgers at Huey's... Watching the famous duck march at The Peabody...Here's the Duck Palace up on the rooftop of The Peabody, where the ducks live when not at the lobby fountain. Waiting for the ducks to make their grand entrance...
(thrilled, can't you tell? HA!)...along with the other gazillion people there!! Then at 11:00 a.m. on the dot... Four little ducks made their grand entrance! They marched right into the lobby fountain where they swim every day until 5p and then go right back up to their Palace. The Duckmaster :)Lucky Ducks! Neither Lance nor I are huge Elvis fans so we didn't take a tour of Graceland, but we did go by so we could say we saw it - HA! This is as far as we got...Can you see it??? Dinner at Folk's Folly Of course, we enjoyed the scene at Beale Street, although we didn't take any pictures that night - boo!
I like how my friend Julie put it...like Bourbon Street, only cleaner :) {image via here}

We went to the Pink Palace Mansion Museum & Planetarium. They were setting up for a wedding reception...Awww, the memories!

They had all kinds of neat exhibits, like the natural science museum wing...the kids would have loved it!{image via here}

But we did see some fun exhibits like these... And this fun automated circus replica too! Did you see the pumpkin??? Had to get a pic!!!

We messed up thinking we could eat at Rendezvous on Sunday or Monday...they were closed both days :({image via here}

BUT we did manage to taste the famous Memphis barbecue at Central BBQ - YUM!{image via here}

We had the best time just being together and catching up, sleeping past 7:30a, having uninterrupted conversation and going wherever we wanted to without worrying about kid-friendly schedules and facilities...

BUT we missed the littles so much that we decided to surprise them and come home late Sunday night instead of Monday so we could spend Memorial Day with them as a family.

Hudson had been having a hard time going to sleep without us, so Sunday night Noonie let Grace & Hudson both sleep on our bed and when we came home, we walked in to this:Sweetest little babies! God bless their little hearts!

They were so excited to see us Monday morning but they are still talking about what a FUN time they had with both Noonie and Mimi...I'm afraid they are a bit spoiled right now! :) :) :)

THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH for making it possible for us to go without worrying about them being okay!!! And don't worry, we're already planning our next getaway - HA!