Spring Ahead = Exhaustion

What a weekend! It was fun, but long. It started with a really great evening at our friend Kathy's with my brother Phil. We have this thing with Kathy where we go over to her house once every few months and have dinner and play Balderdash. It's hilarious. Some of the definitions we come up with keep us in stitches for most of the night. This time we had Monica join us... and we had Grandpa take Jericho.

Saturday was NUTS. We headed off to IKEA to get a wedding present for Rich & Amanda and also to pick out a few things for us. Nate and I are always able to find SOMETHING to spend money on there. We also wanted to get some ideas for a new wall unit. Then we went to next-door Linens & Things and got more fun stuff with a gift certificate Nate got from work. Free stuff is AWESOME! I won't tell you we spent some of our own money as well.

We tried to rush home in time to get to Meg & Joe's to drop off baby clothes, but to no avail. Traffic was a nightmare and we wanted to get to Rich's & Amanda's place for their open house wedding party. I called my sister and we arranged for them to pick them up Sunday... The party was pretty cool... I could tell Amanda was happy to see me as most everyone else there was either a relative or a friend of her in-laws. It's been sooo fun getting to know her and Rich and especially seeing Tasia & Jericho starting to take notice of each other. There were pictures taken of the two of them that I should be seeing soon and I'll post them hopefully...

The best part of the party was the pickled garlic wrapped in bacon. So yum.

Then we rushed home to get ready for D & R to pick us up for D's 30th birthday. I waltzed in the door and there was a message from Michelle- "we'll be there around 6:30" That was when I heard the doorbell ring!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH! We ran around our house like mad getting ready and waiting for Matt & Christa to come babysit the boy-child. As soon as they got there we basically ran out and had a great ride with Steve & Michelle that was filled with phone calls from our house "Can he eat allll the formula?" etc.. and some nice adult conversation.

D's party was dinner at this BBQ place I had heard about called Memphis Blues. It was pretty good. We had this massive place of just meat...all kinds of meat. I was full after a wide variety of pork, ribs, catfish, etc. The best part was the company.. It was just a great night of LAUGHING! It was also fun making eyes at my hubby across the table...LOL.

Then in the middle of the night we experienced the LOSS of an hour. How sad. I'm happy there's more light in the morning, but I, like most people, really appreciate SLEEP.

Sunday morning a wonderful Michelle picked me up for church. That was sooo nice! Church was great, my nap that afternoon was also heavenly.