Happy 27th Birthday

So it was my birthday on Saturday April 25th. I share my birthday with one of my best friends that I have known since I was 13, April. We decided to go away for a girls weekend with some girls we grew up with. My parents have a condo in St. George they let us use. Thanks so much Mom and Dad!

So we left friday afternoon. Four of us live pretty close to each other (April, Brittany, Alyson and me)so we all drove down together. Katie lives in St. George so she just came over. Rachel lives in L.A., she flew to Vegas and rented a car. Thanks everyone for making time in your busy schedules for some fun girl time. We had a blast. We went to dinner, went shopping, stayed up all night (really until 5 am) talking and laughing. Saturday we woke up and some of us exercised while Aly made breakfast for us. Thanks Aly, it was delicious. Then we all went to see Grafton Ghost Town about 40 minutes outside of St. George. Apparently it was where some of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was filmed. It was really pretty. We had a good time. After that we stopped at a little souvenir shop on the way home and looked around for a while. We stopped on our way into St. George and did a little shopping at the outlet mall. Then it was time for dinner. We went to Benja Thai and Sushi. It was delicious. We all enjoyed it thoroughly, even Britt who didn't like Sushi until then. She had just never had good sushi. They even brought us out a birthday dessert of sticky rice with fresh mango's and a sweet sauce over the top. It was really yummy. Then of course it was back to the condo to play games, talk, laugh and stay up all night (only until 3am). We drove home sunday. It was a blast. Thanks for a great Birthday weekend getaway girls. Thanks for the many years of friendship and here's to many more!

While the weekend was great, I was also very excited to come home. Nate had been in Chicago the week before. He came home friday at 11:30am and I left around 1pm. So we didn't get a whole lot of time together. I got home sunday around 5:30pm and he left for Chicago again monday morning at 9:30am. That was really hard. I felt bad just sitting on the couch crying as he walked out the door but it was all I could do. So he is home now and he doesn't have to leave again until June so HOORAY! He is so great for letting me get a way for the weekend, even when it cut into our time together. It was a much needed break. Thank you so much Nate. I love you!
All of us Girls
Lounging on the couch bed after a long day of travel
Aly, April and baby boy
Katie and Rachel haven't seen each other in 5 years
Friends
Grafton Ghost town church
reading the sign
this lady was born and died on the same day, it also happens to be Katie's birthday
he and his wife were killed by Indians
random tractor
Its a good thing these two didn't live back then
Walking
April sat on a cactus, YIKES!
She met a new guy while we were there
He was hitting on us too
Watching a movie
Eating popcorn
Trying to ride in a car that is WAY to small. After I got in I discovered it was broken. I was pretty disappointed.
This guy got a lot of action from us, a kiss from April
a nose pick from Britt
All of us after dinner, it was really delicious! And it converted Britt to Sushi, yeah!