amazing weekend

so...the weekend was great! did a little janet support on friday night and then headed off to des moines, iowa to see my bff mandie lou and her two little girlies kayla and natalie (and michael of course too). kayla's not too little anymore; 4 years old! wow, how time flies. i still remember when she was born! anywho, i had a blast and it was great to see my gals. i hadn't seen ms natalie since last christmas when she was 6 months old. it was so great to keep up with her fast legs. made me realize i needed to get back to the gym ;) she's a quick one and loves to laugh! i luv'd it and wanted to spend more than just a weekend there.

i rolled in about 9'ish saturday a.m. and had a tour of their super new cute house. i loved it and makes me want a house of my own so badly. oh wait, with that comes a higher morgage than my rent and that doesn't look promising in this budget...hehe. anywho, it was a great house and i am so happy and excited for mandie and mike (her hubby) as they've worked hard for this great home. congrats! it's beautiful.

so...what are girls to do when 10 a.m. hits? yup, hit the mall! mike was at a cpa training session so there wasn't a boy in the house to tell us not to ;) it was all the girls and we put our shopping shoes on and hit up jordan creek mall. it is actually a pretty darn good mall. i like it better than oak park here in KC, but then again it doesn't take much to beat oak park. we strolled around and came home with a handful of good finds. i even got my halloween costume for this friday's costume's and cocktails partay at the ferg's. kayla did a great job helping me pick it out. there were so many to choose from, but price made the final decision.

what next, oh yes...rest time. shopping did us in so we went home and took a load off for a bit. made some yummy chili for dinner that night and put the kiddos down for a nap. cracked open a nice refreshing red beer and chilled. then it was time to get the kiddos in their halloween get-up for the zoo trick-or-treating night. kayla was snow white and natalie was a lady bug. too cute! i'll post a pic up when i get home to download it. we walked the trick-or-treat zoo path and then ended at THE fun zone. which was a huge building filled with a handful of jumpy contraptions. kayla and nat loved it and i loved watching them have fun. we were all a bit tuckered out after that fun night. came home and became pile's of poo on the couches. didn't even have the energy to open up our flirtini martini fun night. i guess that's what happens when you get old. you would rather choose sleep time over a refreshing cocktail.

that was pretty much our satruday. we were so exhausted that sunday let into sleeping in...well sleeping in until 8 a.m. i swear, i can't sleep much past 8 a.m. these days. wow! i am getting old. if i am still in bed @ 9 a.m. i am most definitely awake...just tossing and turning in hopes of being able to sleep in; however, it is usually never the case. so, we all awoke refreshed and ready to take sunday funday on BUT the wind put a bit of a damper into that idea. with wind speeds of around 60 mph we kept inside as much as possible. except the time when we had to go rescue the porch swing that "swung" over the porch into the yard due to the wind. that was great fun trying to get back in order with those winds. it was some pretty hard work so mandie and i decided that work gave us a good reason to do a little target run. so we did. headed to target, but the darn wind didn't make it as fun to be out.

so...it was about that time. time for me to hit the road south back to kc. i had a great weekend and didn't want it to end. the drive home actually didn't take long at all, but it always stinks leaving a good weekend of fun.

thx again m&m for a great weekend!
nb