It's been a fun week! We have had some decent weather, at least for playing out in the yard, and we have had a couple of birthday celebrations.
On Thursday Cora turned one! That's pretty momentous when you are as small as she is. We didn't go too crazy, but it was also Luna's birthday, so Danielle pulled out all the stops and made a doggy birthday cake. I gave Luna a few little treats, and Danielle gave me a photo mug with pics of the pups and even one of Maggie with them. It was so sweet. They had a great time tearing all over the house.
On Saturday we headed up to Ohio to see Paul for his birthday. It was a great weekend. Brendan came along, and he got to hang out with his brother on campus.
Tim and I had a hotel not too far away and it was nice to be able to go back and forth easily. We went to dinner on Saturday night with some of his friends, which was just wonderful. We went to Bennigan's, a restaurant across from the school. I bumped into Shannon, one of the people who runs the School for Spiritual Direction! It's a small Catholic world. We had good food and got to know Paul's friends. That was really nice. Then Time and I went back to our hotel and the guys went to hang out with more friends. Cora had come along and she was just such a good sport. She was a perfect lady the whole time. She stayed in her crate in the room while we went to dinner, and was quiet and well behaved. Such a great traveler.
Yesterday, Paul's actual birthday, Madi was able to join us!
She had been on retreat the day before, so we didn't get to see her. We met at the school and then drove over to Weirton, a town close by in West Virginia. We went to a Byzantine Mass there, which was wonderful, and then went to a place called Tudor's Biscuit World, which may be the only business in town that is actually booming. It was great though. We had some of Paul's friends with us too. After we went back to the school we took a cake in to Madi's dorm and sang happy birthday.
Then we went up to TJ Maxx where we looked for cheap stuff. As we were getting ready to leave Brendan realized that he was missing his bag, with all his ID and other things. We went back to the school to look, but we didn't find it. He is still hopeful that it will turn up, but has to cancel cards and protect his ID just in case.
