We started off the weekend with dinner Friday night at Ohana Japanese Steakhouse. We invited almost 20 people to celebrate with us, and 10 were able to make it. For those of you that don't know Ohana, this is a West Des Moines restaurant where they cook all of your food right in front of you. And it is delicious. As of September, I will have been celebrating my "Big Events" at Ohana for 10 years. My bachelorette party started there, Scott and I have celebrated anniversaries, birthdays, sometimes just a Saturday, at Ohana. It made sense to celebrate Weston' s impending arrival there too. Here's our "banzai" picture:
Ok... so this isn't the clearest picture. A Banzai is a Polaroid snap shot after all.
Left to right, row 1: Chris and Melissa Spencer (XO sister + husband), Scott, Me, Shannon (my sister), and Jason Taylor (friend.)
Row 2: Ken (our Chef), April Barkely (XO sister), Stephanie Stanley (Cousin-in-law), Teri and Kenny Dean (Teri used to work with me at Onthank.)
We had a wonderful time. and the food was fabulous. As usual.
Saturday, Scott and I decided to spend the day alone... one of our "Date Days." We started out at Mercy for our usual Saturday Non-Stress Test. West did great, and we were out of there by 11am. We then proceeded to the Science Center of Iowa to see The Dark Knight at the Blank Dome IMAX theatre. Great movie. Wonderful actually. There shouldn't have been children there, but then again, their parents have to live with those consequences I guess. NEVER see a movie that long, that action packed, on an IMAX Dome. I had a headache through Sunday. It was like watching a 3 hr movie on a Planetarium. 
After the movie, we walked through the Science Center - neither of us had ever been. I thought it would be a lot cooler. Like more adult friendly. This was very much geared towards children. I don't think we'll be going back for a few years. But, they did have an exhibit called the Humongous Among Us. It was small, but it was about the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, and no, it wasn't the T-Rex. That's the T-Rex skull "behind" the Big one. I was about 6-8 feet away when i took this picture on my phone.
After the Science Center, Scott and I had over 2 hours to kill, so we went Downtown to Legends and had an early dinner, and then we went to the I-Cubs Game. Alfonso Soriano from the Chicago Cubs was supposed to be rehabbing in Des Moines this weekend, but he never made it down. So we watched 6 innings of a pretty good 
game before I asked if we could go home.
(Pregnancy reared it's ugly head, and my legs and feet were so swollen I could barely walk.) On a side note, it started to thunderstorm before we made it out of Downtown, so I obviously made the right choice. :)
But don't we look like we are having a great time? In mirror image thanks to the camera on my phone.
We spent Sunday sleeping in, doing laundry and washing bottles. We watched a movie, and I went swimming with Shannon and Jason. It was an awesome weekend! And we can't wait to meet Weston! Only a week or so to go!!!
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