Thursday Night Dinner

For about 8 years now, I've had a standing Thursday night dinner date at my best friend, Ashley's house.  It's changed a bit since we were in our early 20's, as now she has a child, but it's still like my second family and my second home.  Ashley and I are besties for life.  I was maid of honor at her wedding, I was in the hospital for the birth of baby Theo and we've had dinner a million Thursdays in between.  Tonight we had our last Thursday night dinner for an entire year.  It was seriously bizarre, but we held it together for as long as we could.  We ended up holding each other for about 40 minutes on the couch and then saying goodbye in the freezing cold for another 10.

To stay in touch, we decided to make our own private iCloud Shared Album and post a picture to each other every day.  If you have an iPhone, the iCloud shared albums are pretty awesome.  You can take pictures, make albums and invite whoever you want.  Every time you add to that album, everyone you've invited sees the pictures/captions.  The others in the album can also add pictures/captions as well.  Pretty nifty way to share pictures seamlessly.

I got Theo (who's one and a half) a going away present:

It's some sort of jungle slide thing with a crank and swings and blocks.  It took Ashley and I awhile to put together and we even needed a screwdriver at one point.  They really don't make it easy, do they?  I had really bad Ikea-desk-in-college flashbacks.  Not to mention, on the box they had a bunch of different animals playing on the jungle slide.  However, when I finally read the fine print, it stated only one animal came in the box and the other were purchased separately.  WTF???  Not cool, V-Tech!  Not sure if I'll be buying anything V-Tech again because that was super shady!

Ashley, Kevin, Theo: love you guys and I'll catch you on the Cloud!