Surprise!

This weekend (Friday and Saturday) we were up at my parent's house in KC for our traditional birthday get-together. Emery had been asking to go to grandma's house for a few weeks now so she was super pumped to go. We had a really great time hanging out. We ate at Carrabba's for dinner and Emery even ate some calamari. She's such a picky eater that I couldn't believe when she asked to try some.

We also (after a few months of discussion and heavy thinking) decided to trade in our Chevy Trailblazer for this

a 2011 Jeep Liberty Sport 4x4. And it's blue, not silver. And the best news is our payment is lower! Woohoo! It's super nice and we really like it so far. No complaints here!

For those of you who know me well, know that I am in LOVE on the verge of OBSESSED with Chaco shoes. So, I've been  eye-ing this new pair that they just came out with recently and guess who's getting these for her birthday?!?!

Me...that's who! Thank you to the best husband I could ask for!!

And for the biggest surprise of all.....! When we got home tonight around 8pm our house was a VERY chilly 54 degrees. Sometime in the 2 days we were gone the furnace had stopped working. Ryan called our landlord and he came out with a furnace guy and he got it working for about 20 minutes, then it stopped again. So Ryan called him back and he brought us a space heater and we set up the pack-n-play in our room so we're having a sleepover in our room tonight! Although Emery has already fallen asleep so I guess it's her bra Ryan and I will be freezing. They're coming back out tomorrow to fix it for real. I am really thankful that our landlord was so willing to come right out and then come back out to bring us a space heater after the "quick fix" didn't work. 

I think that's a pretty accurate recap of my weekend. I hope yours was just as great.