scenes from my weekend

another amazing weekend for the books.  this has seriously been one of the best summer i've ever had.

this weekend, we all headed up north to slaughter beach, delaware for a little fun in the sun and a much needed weekend away spent at a cute little pirate ship themed beach house.

we packed up our cars after work on thursday {some on tuesday, wednesday and friday, too} and drove 3 hrs north to this sweet little spot.  we pretended we were in the jersey shore {re-named the slaughter shore since we were staying at slaughter beach}, ate "family dinners" every night and bacon and eggs together every morning, sipped on gin&tonics, gave each other pirate names, experimented with making our own shooters {unsurprisingly not that great...}, played scrabble and chess, enjoyed one full-day of thunderstorms and one full-day of sunshine {which required non-stop lazying on the beach}, night "swimming," slumber parties, dance parties, hookah parties, cleaning parties, and slept in until nearly noon everyday.

it was the perfect way to end our summer.  i even video tapped a bit of it using the 8mm app on my iphone.  {i'm just about to try to figure out how to add sound, cut and put together a fun video - cross your fingers that it works out for me!}

the next few weeks should be pretty lax now that i'm done traveling for a while.  and thank goodness for that, i'm exhausted!  i'm looking forward to squeezing in all of the quality time i can before my two best girlfriends {with me on the left in the fifth line of pictures} both leave me on labor day weekend - one to colorado for the year, and the other to london for the year.  as much as i am so excited and thrilled for them both, it's going to be a super sad weekend and hard adjustment for me without them this next year.

::: all photos {obviously} taken with the instagram app:) :::