Bed and breakfast

It's 4:04 pm,
hurry, hurry, hurry.
Not only am I trying to do this in only ten minutes,
the boys are awake.
It was a very weird (nearly non) napping day.
Normally this is when my blog would get scrapped, but I want to try.
It's only ten minutes, right?
So here we go...
Last weekend I went to Chicago to celebrate my birthday AND

Rachel's engagement!!
YAY!
Congratulations Rachel and Joe! So very exciting. It was fun to look through bridal magazines and talk about cake and dresses.
On Friday night, we went to Holly's parent's house. Her (uber talented) mom, Delcine, was hosting an open house for her handmade jewelry, Delcine's Designs. Holly's sister Sally was there and both Rachel's mom and my mom came. It was fun having all of the moms and daughters together.

We stayed up much too late that night; back at Holly's condo we celebrated Rachels' engagement with wedding magazines and a congratulatory mini-cake testing. I brought cake squares from a well loved Bloomington bakery, six different flavors. We tasted every single one of them, over tea around 2 am and ranked them from our most favorite to our least. White cake with vanilla frosting won. We were all shocked! (white won over chocolate, butter pecan, red velvet among some others.) You've just got to taste it for yourself to believe!
On Saturday morning, Holly made us the most delicious breakfast. We ate, drank coffee and stayed in our pj's until after noon. Like literally after 12:00 pm. It was wonderful!




And then we took a few pictures before heading out for a little bit of shopping and lunch at Jason's Deli. Which was by the way excellent and delicious. We all had the salad bar comprised of super fresh, organic veggies and sides and then a complimentary dish of ice cream. Perfect!

Rachel and I trying to take a self-portrait. It was a miserable blurry failure. I'm still working on getting the blur out without a flash.

Rachel and Holly

Holly and me

It was a perfect night away!
Whew, the timer JUST went off.