Who are you and where have you been?

So I'm catching up a bit here. Right after starting this blog, we went away for nearly a week without the girls. Bridges was invited to his company's Chairman's Club, which was in Cancun this year. We ended up leaving the girls with my sister Linda Saturday night, and then Bridges' parents picked them up Sunday night and kept them at their house until Friday when we returned. So it was six nights away from them! The longest we've been away before was three nights (for our fifth anniversary back in November). I missed them terribly then, although an hour after returning, I thought to myself "I should have enjoyed that more!"

This time I was able to enjoy the time away, but we did still miss them terribly, although not enough to interfere too much. We even went diving, which seemed like such a pre-kids-lifestyle thing to do. Oh, and here is the view from our balcony at the Ritz, so you can see it really wasn't so bad.

When we returned, Lee came out to greet us with a quick "Hi. I'm watching a video! Come watch it with me!" and disappeared into the other room. So much for the dramatic reunion! Clara, who after the three days in November was thrilled to see us, instead just gave me this look....."who are you and where have you been?" She continued to stare at me (even after I picked her up) for the next ten minutes or so. I only realized she actually knew who I was when I tried to put her down and she immediately started crying. Now that's better, I thought. :)