Alana's 1st Birthday

Since Nathan was studying quite diligently, the weekend before the bar I drove up to Baltimore to see Kjerstin and Nick and meet baby Bridget now that they've moved to the east coast! We're so excited to have them closer! Bridget is almost exactly one year older than our baby will be and we're sure they will be best friends. ;)

Although I did have to call Nick to ask him to parallel park my car on their street and I did get Kjerstin lost driving around Baltimore, ;) the visit overall was wonderful. They live in the cutest apartment right down town and Kjerstin's eye for decorating along with her Pottery Barn/Williams-Sonoma discount over the past two years has made it quite lovely. :) Sadly I got no pictures of their apartment or their cool street.

The trip to Baltimore coincided with my niece Alana's 1st birthday party.  Kjerstin and I share Alana as a niece so she and Nick were going up to Lancaster for the party and I was able to ride with them. It was great to see Chris, Kate and Alana again as well as most of Kate's family and my mom, Em and Caroline. Alana had a double birthday party with her cousin Thomas (turning 2). It was a Robin Hood/Maid Marian themed party, thus the fancy party hats and little Robin Hood that you see running around.

Can't you tell that Bridget and Alana are cousins? We'll see if our little girl gets the same chubby cheeks and big beautiful eyes. :) Both Alana and Bridget preferred chewing  their party hats to wearing them.

There were lots of party games, tons of delicious food and somewhere around 30 people at Chris and Kate's for the party.

On the way back to Williamsburg Kjer, Bridget and I stopped by Annapolis to see our good college friends Laura, Tiffany, and Hannah. Tiffany now lives in Texas so we of course had to all get together while she was back east for a few weeks. Laura hosted a beautiful brunch at her apartment.

Her apartment is on a farm consisting mostly of hens and sheep. The sheep were hilarious and got so excited when we went down to visit them

I was of course very glad to be back in Williamsburg with Nathan, but it was a very fun girls weekend and gave him time to study without me interrupting every hour asking if it's time for a break yet. ;)