Birthday Festivities

What says birthday better than food?  Two nights of great restaurants with great company!

On my birthday eve, Kelly, Dan, our mom, and I headed to Dos Urban Cantina - delicious!

Virgin margaritas - a current favorite!

 On my birthday, Sean and I headed to one of our top 5 restaurants - NoMI in the Park Hyatt.

 This place has incredible service, amazing views, and stellar food. When they saw I was pregnant they brought us some sparkling cider - nice touch!

 View of the old water tower.

 Ahh, the food! Green salad, small charcuterie board.

Sean's oh so tender ribeye.

My buttermilk chicken.

 Sean's chocolate bundido with dehydrated chocolate cake and garlic ice cream.

My off menu dessert - passion fruit cake with basil ice cream.  Yum!

Showering baby girl Kloak

Today was a wonderful day showering baby girl Kloak with love, gifts, amazing Italian food, and sugar!!

The Kloak women, Rose, Maggie and Bridget did a wonderful job with every detail.

Two sure to be amazing grandmothers!

Congratulations Kelly and Dan!  Sean and I can't wait to meet our new niece and baby Moody is very excited to meet his/her cousin!

Happy First Communion Danny Boy!

Congratulations on your First Communion Danny!  What a fun party to celebrate!!!

It also happened to be Derby Saturday and the fascinators and decorations were out!

And what's a communion party without holy fruit?!

And lots and lots of cousin time!

Tourist in my own city!

Daron came into town this weekend and I got to play tourist in Chicago for a day - so fun! We went to Improv Olympics on Saturday night with Elese, Cindy, Bobby, Bridget, and Kevin. Hilarious!!

I was up early cooking up a storm on Sunday morning. Kelly and Dan came over also which was great.

Then we headed to the Art Institute for the 2nd to last weekend of the Van Gogh exhibit.  Amazing!

 Of course I also need to see some of my favorites...

Then Daron and I were off to the Cubs game. It went 10 innings but unfortunately the good guys didn' win.

Lastly Orso's for some great Italian! The manager treated us to free desserts. The oregano gelato was incredible!