Our $100 dollar Getaway to the Mountains with Friends

We're finally home from our fall vacation (first one ever!) and i thought since i had a minute i would post something.

Ben and I have been so busy lately with just life in general. We were so excited when we decided to take up our friends on their offer of letting us use their mountain house for the long weekend! we escaped early..wednesday night.. let sophia sleep through the night. and met up with friends of ours from philly. they have a baby boy 3 months younger than sophia. it was soooo fun..and relaxing.

I was very proud of our budgeting for this trip! we ended up only spending 100 bucks.

$30- gas there

$30- gas back

$15- grocery store there

$15-pizza parlor

$10- coffee to keep ben awake

CHANGE = VACATION MONEY!

We have the habit of ending up with tonssss of change..and we put them in a jar in the 6th bedroom i turned into my closet. haha. we empty our pockets in there. so before we left for vacation ben and the baby took them to the coin star machine at the grocery store and came home with a tank of gas! every few weeks we do this and it is awesome. sophia loves to watch it gobble up the coins.

Our friends and I brought tons of food so we didn't have to eat out for every meal.  i went grocery shopping in my own kitchen..loading up a box full of food for the long weekend. It ended up being perfect. We played wii all weekend...went for walks..played at the playground. the boys went golfing. we cooked..ate.. vegged. my kind of vacation. the kids were able to run around the house and play..sorta..sophia avoided him at all costs till about an hour before we left when they reversed rolls and she wouldn't stop trying to hug and kiss him. but overall the mountain air did us good. and another awesome part about vacation....besides being cheap....we came home to a clean house!! best mama tip ever...clean your house before you leave. :) no i just have to tackle the piles of laundry...blah.

us girls with our babies! and the boys had a competition........

This is how sophia and tommy interacted most of the weekend. . . . . 

we went to this local pizza parlor

side note***I was just trying to get sophia down for a nap..and of course as she was dozing off all of the dogs in the neighborhood decided to start communicating. the across the street dogs started it first..barking at all the little woodland creatures running around..and then i kept hearing dogs from farther and farther away. seriously? at the exact moment of nap time?? but she was so tired and i worked my mama magic and got her to sleep and all was perfect in the world. then i went downstairs to turn down the food network that she had clicked on by accident....but...the remote was nowhere to be found. of course. i searched everywhere and then remembered earlier this morning seeing her pretty much standing on her head looking under the couch. i thought she was just being snoopy but i was wrong...there was the remote! all the way in the back.. haha. ***