Weekend in Chicago

What a wonderful weekend it was. Friday afternoon I got to leave work at 3:00 because they were cleaning the carpets. What a bummer... ;) It was wonderful, I got to start the weekend early! It worked out perfectly that Schick farms were harvesting the corn right by our house that afternoon. Since Luke runs the auger wagon, I went out and rode with him for a bit. It kind of cracked me up watching him, and I can't believe he's so old already.. 

What a rough job...

He told me he's getting fat just sitting in the tractor all day every day this fall. Ha... yeah right. I don't think there's an ounce of fat on him. :)

After riding with Luke for a while, I went home and quickly packed up my things and Daniel and I headed to Troy & Ellie's for the weekend. Oh what a ride it was there...I drove Daniel's car. It's stick shift, and he's trying to get me to learn it. I really have no desire to, but since we're taking it to Florida in December, I really DO need to learn how to drive it, and Florida is my only motivator at this point. I did just fine on interstate... but when it came to town, I did not do so well... let's just say I got stuck in the middle of an intersection and just kept killing it. I had a minor panic attack... after finally getting out of the intersection before the light turned red, I switched seats with Daniel, and we arrived safely at 8:30. :) Nathan and Michelle came Friday night too. We stayed up fairly late (for us anyway..) talking. 

Saturday morning Seth and Kendra & Aaron joined us. We went and did some shopping at Cabela's and World Market... then headed to Woodfield mall. We went to the Cheesecake factory for lunch. It was a long wait, but it was very much worth it. Sooo delicious.

The group minus me :)

And... the core 4 group... we're all couples now! :)

 We were at the mall until about 4, and then headed back to Troy & Ellie's. Darcy, Charity, Larissa, and Kayla S all came for supper that night too. It was so good to hang out with everybody... let's just say I laughed so hard pretty much the entire night my stomach hurt. I think we were all getting pretty slap happy by the end of the night...I think everyone would agree they had a good time. :)

Only us and Nathan and Michelle stayed at Troy & Ellie's(same with Fri night) but on Sunday morning everyone came back for breakfast. Daniel gave Cyrus a bath on Sunday morning... I thought it was so cute, especially since Cyrus loves his bath!

We all went to church in Belvidere, and got to see Troy's family which I always love being with them. We went and sang at a nursing home after church, and then went to one of the ministers house for pizza afterwards. We headed back home around 6:00 or so. Daniel drove home which was much more relaxing than me trying to figure out stick shift. :)
It was such a wonderful weekend... Daniel and I both talked about on the way home how we are so blessed to have such wonderful couple friends, and how we all get along so well. Can't wait for our next potluck! :)

Oh... and Cyrus had a big brother shirt on when we got there Friday night. :) Baby #2 is on the way for Troy & Ellie! :)