this weekend

this weekend was fabulously started off with leaving work early on friday! it always feels like early out in elementary and i'm excited for it the entire day, i can hardly wait! my sisters and i met my mom and my nephew at the gateway for my mom's birthday. we enjoyed a yummy lunch at california pizza kitchen! mmm! i forget how much longer everything takes with a toddler, eventhough he is a super good kid! we had a day full of walking, shopping, riding the train, and my mom and i finished out the day getting our wedding rings cleaned! pretty exciting, i know! i forgot my camera all weekend, so don't mind the quality of these pictures. i took them all on my new phone and i'm new to this whole camera phone thing....

saturday we helped our friends jordan and kate move into their new house and then went to firehouse pizza for jd's sister kelsie's birthday. we

got this yummy fh'zookie for dessert!

after doing a little homework we decided to go on a hike to elephant rock up mueller park canyon. we (jd, i've never been there) forgot just how LONG this hike was. not really one you start at 7:00 at night...we found out. we hiked until about 8:45 and then decided we better turn around since it was still quite a ways away! we got some really pretty pictures up there although we didn't make it to the elephant. i'll have to see it some other time...

we finished off the evening with a little of this....

we also put up a new light in the family room. after having a half burned out flourescent light for the last few weeks, it finally went out all the way. since we aren't huge fans of the flourescent lights, we just decided to buy a new one. i know it looks super bright, but it's dark down here in the basement! it also doesn't look like a ufo, i promise!