i won't go into the long, drawn out story of the entire weekend but long story short, john and my mom had a surprise for me on friday night. my mom had planned on coming into town to celebrate my birthday...i thought we were only going to dinner but alison, elise (my two best friends) and rachel surprised me by joining us. we spend the whole weekend hanging out, shopping and just having a great time all together. it was a great way to start my birthday week. john even scheduled spa services for alison and i on monday.

this definitely made up for the "xanadu" debacle.