Whirlwind weekend

This weekend was a crazy, whirlwind of activity. Dan, Brandy, and I all went to KC for my birthday, which was on Sunday. During that weekend, I had to throw a wedding shower for a friend, shop, have multiple birthday celebrations and out run some tornadoes. I know all these things sound like great activities, but when you try and cram them all in to one weekend, it makes for an exhausting time!! On Sat while I was frantically running around, trying to get this wedding shower up and running, Dan and Brandy were frantically driving around KC, trying to find my birthday present. For those who know either of these two, this was a bad idea from the very beginning. Neither of them have any sense of direction and I would venture to say that the majority of friends who read my blog have probably at one time or another been lost with either one of these two, even in a place where they SHOULD know their way around! So they had many exciting stories to tell me the next day.
We were scheduled to stay until Monday but after waking up Sunday morning and discovering that my parent's plumbing was backed up and there would be no running water until at least Monday, we had to start reconsidering our position. On top of having 8 people staying in the house, we had two shih tzu's , one pit bull, one cat, and 3 birds...it was a flippin mad house. So after pizza and ice cream cake to celebrate not only my bday but also my mom's (whose was the 13th) and my sister in law's (whose is the 20th), we opened presents and then realized that all the tv stations were issuing tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings. It was at this point that we thought we'd better pack up if we were leaving that day. So we rushed around and took off for Kirksville. The whole way home we kept hearing radio reports about where tornadoes were, cities the "super cells" were directly over. We were consistently about 15 minutes out of each of these cities when the storms hit. Thankfully, we made it back in one piece and even got to see a rainbow. I received some great presents, some collectable items, (a lot of money to go towards my Hawaii trip!yea katie!!) and a beautiful necklace from Dan. (see pic above). Overall it was a good weekend, with the exception of turning 25....but that is another post for another time.