Carissa and I went away for a much-anticipated weekend to Minneapolis. This is our second time to go away for a shopping weekend together, and once again, we had a blast! We stayed with Chris and Julie Juvenall, and they were terrific hosts. We shopped, ate, shopped, etc. So much fun!!! Can't wait till next year!

Carissa and I had to weigh-in on our trip to Minneapolis. Northland is doing a "fitness program" for it's faculty/staff, and if we wanted to get our points for the month, we had to weigh-in. We chose a truck stop somewhere on Highway 8 in Wisconsin. Good times.
Unfortunately, the snow was more than our cheap little scale could handle. It froze up...wow! Carissa only weighed 13 pounds. Pretty good for a pregnant woman.
Good thing we know how to work on cars...
Sitting on a bench at the most wonderful store on earth...IKEA!!!! We were setting Carissa new pedometer so we could add up all of our steps for our first big shopping day.

Eating dinner at a Thai restaurant at the Mall of America. MMMMM....cilantro chicken!!! Of course, we had to top it off with some Coffee ice cream at the Cold Stone Creamery.
Eating dinner on Saturday night at a Vietnamese restaurant with Julie. So much fun!!! (Yes, we pretty much ate the whole trip!) We ended our dinner with some Boba Milk Tea...yummy!
Relaxing in Julie's hot tub!! Nothing like being surrounded by snow in a wonderfully hot hot tub!
Love the steam!
And, this is what I came home to...my most wonderful husband had candles and streamers leading all the way from the garage into the living room. He had made a video with the girls saying how much they missed me/pictures of us with romantic music. Plus, he had done several things that were on my non-written honey-do list!!! Total surprise!! He really is the most terrific husband in the world!!