memorial day weekend

the rest of memorial day weekend was super busy. we reached home after the sledding around 5pm, and i ran to the grocery store to pick up some things, and dropped off portions of j's birthday cake (so that we wouldn't end up eating the whole thing) with various friends.
at 7pm, we met up with j's uncle j & his girlfriend j, and his grammy for dinner at the kennedy school. near the end of dinner, the sky broke into pieces in a rare thunderstorm/downpour. the drive home was a bit dicey with the heavy rainfall. grammy came home with us & spent the night at our house.
sunday morning, we went to 9:30 mass, and then enjoyed a bit of birthday cake before heading out to wine country. we had 6 bottles to pick up at panther creek winery (which we had purchased at thanksgiving as futures), and tasted there and at domaine serene, and torii mor. we had wanted to go to domaine drouhin & archery summit, but evidently they're "above" the memorial day crowds. late afternoon, we drove grammy to canby & visited for awhile, then moved on to my parents' house for dinner, with my brother & the nephews.
monday started late, and it was spent picking up a freezer from sears & fitting it down the stairs into the basement. the whole ordeal was traumatic (see my facial expression in the picture in front of the freezer - also note the scale - the thing is huge!!!). luckily j asked his friend a (who also brought girlfriend k) to help. j would've never been able to handle it on his own! we took a & k out for dinner to mcmenamins that evening as thanks. i wish i could drink, because i really needed a beer after the whole weekend! it was nice to see everyone, but very tiring for me in my pregnant state.