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Weekend Wonderful

Super fun weekend.  Super.  Fun!!  :)

Photo courtesy of www.roadfood.com
We kicked this beauty off with a fabulous Parent's Night Out.  Our friends Sam and Sara joined us for a super scrumptious meal at The Pine Club in "downtown" Dayton (sadly I took zero pictures -- not even one iPhone shot.  Fail).  This "Landmark in Dayton" has been around since 1947.  This no reservations, cash only establishment combined with the super fab wood-paneled walls reminded both Jace and I of being up in the Northwoods.  Sam, Sara and I all had steak and Jace ordered pork chops (?).  The food was fabulous, though it was pretty loud and I think our waitress was deaf...not a winning combination on the service front.  I'm willing to look past that slight misstep and head back down there the next time I'm in need of a super tasty steak!  

Woke up Saturday morning with a nasty food hangover...but it was well worth it :)  We knocked out the grocery store really quickly, put Easton down for a nap, and then hauled the family wagon over to Columbus' Easton Mall.  I die.  Good thing we had a toddler in tow otherwise I'd be having some serious buyers remorse kickin today.  I swear they pump something into the air in Nordstrom that changes all your "wants" to no sh*t NEEDS.  LOL.  Anyway, the purpose of our trip was to get Jace's iPhone replaced -- and also test out the sweet "Find Your iPhone" app on mine (it works!!).  We also managed to squeeze in a visit with Courtney Blake and her fiancé Matt for a quick appetizer at Max & Erma's before we left.  They had planned to meet us at the Pine Club last night too but he had a bit of culinary bad luck courtesy of a Columbus food truck earlier in the week and couldn't quite rally to head over to Dayton.  It was great to see them and we're looking forward to hanging out with her and Matt again...in about three months when both our calendars are finally clear ;)  

So that brings us to Sunday...what a great Sunday!  The weather here has finally backed off from raging humidity inferno to a comfortable high 70's/low 80s so we took advantage!!  Started the morning off with lots of Mommy, Daddy, Easton and Rae time in the kid cave (a.k.a. our basement) and while Easton was taking his afternoon nap we put together his new Neat 'N Tidy cottage we received from Pete and Polly (huge thanks...big hit!).  After he woke up and we managed to extract him from the new cottage we explored Fairborn's Sweet Corn Festival...it was a lot of fun despite the disappointment of not getting any sweet corn!!  Oh well.  Here's a look at our day:

"this woman and her camera..."

decisions, decisions



Nothin' runs like it...

bucket head

 


dunking the wiffle ball

snacks at the festival

Easton the human garbage disposal...kid eats anything

Doesn't hate Graeters...that's my boy!!!

He got most of it in his mouth ;)

The new cottage!!! :) 
He likes to go in...


And out...


And then back in ;)
  
Welp it's late and I'm running outta steam FAST.  Hope everyone has a great week.  Our next three weeks are straight craziness...starting with another attempt at a work trip Tues/Weds and Jace's first adventure with NASCAR.... so let the fun times begin :)  Much love!!!






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