Apples, apples, apples galore

A couple weeks ago Kody and I headed up to St. Charles for a weekend “getaway” for my birthday. Included in the thing we did were:
- Driving up after work without eating anything and getting REALLY hungry when we finally reached St. Charles
- Eating dinner at Panera and getting bagels for the morning!
- Watching lots of movies, including Music Man (which I had never seen and Kody was a part of when he was younger)
- Going to bed at 10 p.m. and waking up at noon the next day
- Sleeping together in Kody’s twin bed
- Going to Kuiper’s Family Farm and picking apples (a definite highlight) - Kod wasn’t too excited about it at first because there were TONS of kids there, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! We’ve been eating apples straight for the past two weeks.
- Locking ourselves out of his parents house (but they couldn’t really bail us out since they’re in Puerto Rico!)

We spent the rest of the evening going to dinner at JuRin, a favorite Japanese restaurant in St. Charles, for an amazing teppanyaki meal of steak and chicken. If you want a good place to go for your birthday, this is it. I got a free balloon, extra rice, shrimp and chicken, a dessert platter of fresh fruit and terra misu, a happy birthday song, AND a coupon for $20 my next meal AND a free meal next year for my birthday!

Sunday was spent going to church and me dragging Kody to another pumpkin patch near where I work to take pictures of Girl Scouts - the biggest waste of gas and our time! But we had a wonderful weekend of bonding and lots of apples.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend:







We also had a small celebration for my birthday on the actual day. A few highlights were:
- Getting a non-stick frying pan , so we can cook eggs!
- Our beautiful new butter dish (it matches our plates!)
- Beating Kody in our own “Wii Olympics” - I never beat him!