The countdown begins...

It's July 2nd.  Which means it's less than 15 days until my birthday (see countdown on the sidebar). :)

This past weekend was a lot of fun.  I babysat Kayla on Friday night.  She's so funny.  I really enjoyed the 2 hours she was awake while I was there.  :)  She LOVES LOVES LOVES to look at herself in the camera.  I managed to grab a hilarious video (posted on facebook) and a few photos.

 She loves sticking her tongue out.

 Got a good smiley one!

Making a fish-face!

Then on Saturday, I met a few friends at the World's Largest Block Party.  We saw Mike & Joe play again and ended up leaving before Lifehouse.  We headed to a house party at a place one of my friend's knew.  I ended up running into a handful of people I knew from high school.  It was weird, but really great to catch up.

The only downside to the night...taking the train all the way back up to Evanston when I'm already exhausted.

I spent the rest of the weekend reading and napping - I definitely don't recover as quickly as I used to.

I'm looking forward to having Wednesday off of work.  It will be nice to break up the week with that day off.  We'll be heading out to Glen Ellyn to visit with family.  Then on Friday, I'm heading up to Milwaukee for the weekend so I can visit and get out to Summerfest to see a few bands play.