Kesiah turns one.

I wrote this post a week ago, and never published it because I was going to add photos. I didn't have a moment to spare, so I am just going to upload this and date it to last monday when I wrote it, and come back later with photos.

This weekend was jam packed full of stuff!

My baby niece, Kesiah, turned one last Tuesday, so we “celebrated” after Shabbat dinner on Friday at my parents’ house. While Evin and Noah were in town, they went house hunting to look for a place to live – because they are planning on moving here!! I am so excited. Evin has lived in Chicago for about 10 years now, and it will be so nice to have them all here close, especially now with the baby – all sorts of built in babysitters =)

Then on Saturday morning, I dragged myself out of bed at 6:30, and Nick came over and we drove down to GT to run in the nerdiest race ever – the Pi Mile. It is 3.14 miles – aka a 5k. I ran it in a whole minute slower than I did last year (this year I ran in 28:25ish), but still faster than I run when I run on my own.

Since we were already up, we stopped at Lowe’s on the way home because I had a gift card I’d gotten in the mail, and I needed some flowers for my yard. The plan was for mom to come over Sunday afternoon and help me plant – and that’s what we did. Planting this year (though it was much colder) was much easier than last year since the soil had softened from the planting last year and the rain the day before. Now you can see all my little flowers that will make my yard so much more welcoming during the summer =)

Saturday night, Greg and Rachel came in from Dallas, and we went out with the old AEPi guys to dinner and the bar to hang out. It’s always fun to see them and catch up. We were all out late into the evening, and the night ended with pancakes at 3am at my house. Yum!

Sunday, Randy had a birthday brunch at Garrison’s at Perimeter mall. That place has a great brunch buffet, and we took over the whole upstairs with the 37 guests that came to celebrate with him. I always forget how good whipped cream is until I eat some true whipped cream (not the canned stuff). I had a great waffle with some on it, and I could’ve eaten three more!