Our Weekend: Breakfast with Santa and a Birthday Party

Well...our weekend did not go as planned. We were planning on having my sister and her family and may parents stay at our house Fri-Sun.  The weather screwed that up.  I guess Friday the roads were slick when my sister's family left so they ended up turning around and then with the forecast on Sunday for lots of snow it wasn't worth the trek down to Iowa.  So they stayed up in MN.  Super bummed but I completely understand (I am a nervous wreck about bad roads).  My parents did make it down Friday but ended up leaving on Saturday night to avoid driving  through crappy weather on Sunday.  We missed having them around all weekend too.

My parents arrived late Friday night (it took them longer than normal due to traffic and slick roads) and they had to park at the end of our street because our half of the street was closed due to road work.  We visited a little bit and then all hit the hay.  After all, we had a big birthday to prepare for the next day.

Saturday morning we got up and headed up to Breakfast with Santa.  Lets just say Elsie was not a fan of Santa.

The rest of the day was spent getting ready for the party.  Since it was at the local church I had to make sure I packed up everything we would need for the party (of course we were running home for some forgotten items right before).

My dad frosted Elsie's smash cake-The Frosting Guru

The party went great (more to come about that on a separate post).  It was fun to see family and friends and help celebrate Elsie's big milestone! Wow!  I still can't believe she will be one on Friday!!

Elsie must have been exhausted since she slept straight through until 6:30 am, took an hour and 15 minute morning nap and a little over 2 hours for an afternoon nap.  We went and had lunch with John's parents and his Grandma and Aunt who came from out of town for the party and then just did some house stuff the rest of the day.  It was a pretty relaxing afternoon for the most part.

All in all a great weekend.  I did become dissapointed a little when I found out someone lied to me over something that didn't need to be lied about.  I am not sure why people do that or feel like they need to do that-it just boggles my mind.  Just be honest! Especially about little things.

Now that Elsie's party is over it now time to focus on Christmas!  Our house is all decorated, our Christmas cards are out and we have definitely been in the Christmas spirit but I need to buy the last few presents and get them all wrapped.  This week I am also going out to dinner with a friend who will be moving to Kentucky at the end of the month.  She is the wife of one of my co-workers from camp.  It is kind of funny because while working at camp we never really hung out even though we both lived on site.  Now since I quit two years ago (yes it has already been two years since leaving camp!!!!) we get together pretty regularly along with another co-worker.  I will miss her so much!! We also have Elsie's One Year photos on Wednesday.  We are trying a new photographer so we will see how that goes!  I am excited!

I am a bit behind on my blogging so expect the next few to be ones from the late November :)