Abby hits the big 20!

This weekend wasn't too exciting, other than the fact that it was Abby's birthday. But we weren't able to celebrate as much as originally planned because Abby left us on Saturday to travel back home to attend a memorial service for her friend's mom.

But I am getting a little ahead of myself. Let's start with Thursday. I know, I know, it isn't considered the weekend, but for Grace it was and it almost was for me too because I only worked 2 hours on Friday. When I came home from work Thursday no one was home, but I noticed an extremely long grocery list in our living room. I read through the list and noticed a lot of sweet items. A few minutes later the door unlocks and in walks Abby and Grace with bags of groceries. It was then that Grace told me Abby really wanted to make sugar cookies. We went to dinner, came back, made cookies, paused for Abby to complete her online meeting with two students from Chile for her Spanish class, and then resumed the cookie making process. When all was said and done there remained a pile of bowls with different colors smeared inside, flour everywhere, and some impressive looking cookies. The cookies were then put through testing by Josh, and I am proud to say we got his stamp of approval. Did I mention the cookie we gave him was a pink heart with yellow polka dots with his name on it? Had to have been the girliest cookie he has ever eaten. 

Our cute sugar cookies!

On Friday, I woke up and put Abby's birthday present right outside her door so that she would see it as soon as she got up. Although she saw it, she didn't open it until about five o'clock that evening because she wanted to make sure we were there. She was ecstatic over her pens we ordered her from Poppin. Now you're probably saying, "You got her PENS for her BIRTHDAY?!" And yes as a matter of fact we did. Abby has been stealing my Poppin pens since last year because they are her favorite, so it was time to get her her own. We also bought her sweatpants, her favorite thing to wear, and a few Olaf desk supplies which she freaked out over. After presents, we headed to dinner.

On the way to dinner, we picked up Sarah and Lindsey, some of our other friends. We walked into the city to The Cheesecake Factory. Since last year, Abby was talking about how she loves The Cheesecake Factory. She told me all about the pasta dish she loved, so from the beginning of this year I knew where we were taking her for her birthday dinner. She knew of course because I can't lie for my life.

When we got to The Cheesecake Factory we were surprisingly seated right away in a funky half moon booth. In the next booth over were a group of old ladies, five of them, just like there was five of us. We joked about how they were us in a 40 years and picked out which one represented each of us. Also at another table over was an extravagant birthday party (much more extravagant than our little party, sorry Abby!) We all ordered dinner and dessert, because how can you skip cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory? When we were waiting for our payment to be processed Abby decided to go over to the big party and tell them it was her birthday too. Let's just say she didn't get the response in which she was hoping. After that we left, walked home, and that was it.

Happy Sunshine before the makeover

The next morning we surprised Abby with breakfast at Happy Sunshine, our favorite food truck. The food truck recently received a makeover so we wanted to make sure the food was still the same, and we were pleasantly surprised. After breakfast, Abby headed to the train station and Grace and I headed to the hospital. Nothing serious, don't worry. Later in the day Grace and I took on a Luke's Lobster in center city. The food was great but very expensive for the amount of food we got.

Lobster Roll at Luke's Lobster

Hopefully this Halloween weekend will be much more exciting!



xoxo,
Christine