Team Anders

Fairborn.  2013 Sweetcorn Festival.  Team Anders did NOT mess around this year. One ear of freshly steamed corn, two zero-calorie corn fritters, 1/2 a chicken AND a drink...$10.00. I HEART FAIRBORN, OH :) p.s. I now realize that I spelled sweet corn wrong (2 words, ya dummy)...and i'm too lazy to go fix it Thousands of our loyal readers may remember what happened last year  and this crew wasn't about to let history repeat itself so we got up and at 'em today, boy!  At exactly 11:00 the Team Anders wagon rolled into the Fairborn Sweet Corn Festival and made an immediate beeline to the sweet corn pavilion. It was worth it.  Easton loved the corn fritters (surprise, surprise...um, save some for me, kid) while Jace and I wailed on the freshly-steamed sweet corn.  We made our obligatory cruise through all the vendors tables but nothing tripped our trigger enough to drop any coinage. But just as we were leaving..."Mommy, Daddy, neigh, neigh, neigh!!...

Teams Anders and Mink have been slackin in the hangout department but the stars aligned last weekend -- hip, hip, hooray!!! eDougie Fresh and I were able to get over to Sam & Sara's on Sunday afternoon for a lovely little backyard BBQ and, as usual, we had a blast!!   We started on the swings...can you believe these little nuggets are big enough to swing on these "big kid" swings now? (very slowly but still...come ON?!!)   These next two pictures were taken almost one year ago...August 25th, 2012. After the two crazies had enough with the swings...it was time to bounce!  Kathleen has the bluest eyes!!! I'm glad she doesn't mind my camera in her face :) And eventually it was time to eat Sara's scrumptious food.  She made chicken kabobs (chicken, garden-fresh veggies, EVOO, S&P, basil) and sweet corn that had just been picked that weekend from her uncle's farm. Hands down the best corn on the cob I've ever eaten. Tru...

A creative way to mask the corner he'd already bitten off Happy Birthday, Jeff!! Jeffrey flew up to visit the Tomlinson/Anders for a 4th of July/early birthday weekend and his reward was boatloads of rain. We wanted to golf...it rained. We planned to hit the zoo...it rained. So we read lots of books, played in the house and ate and drank our way through the weekend.  On Friday night my parents took us all out to dinner at The Oakwood Club to celebrate JT's big day a few days early.  I think it's been decided that The Oakwood Club is our restaurant of choice for a nice evening out.  The fact you can make reservations and use a credit card puts it at a slight advantage over The Pine Club . Ever so slight though...                        Dad demonstrating one of his new bar tricks On Saturday night we had a "cookout" at home and celebrated JT's big day again with a Reese's cake from...

During our office's Monday planning meeting it never fails that the boss asks each of us about what we did over the weekend...and that's where I get all our ideas about how to entertain Easton the following weekend.  These ideas are generally courtesy of JJ Futey or Sam Mink because their families definitely know how to make the most of a weekend (and why come up with my own ideas when I'm surrounded by these parenting pros)!! So... enter the Futey/Mink suggestion...the Columbus Zoo ! The zoo is huge (as you can see above) and also has a water park and other rides attached to it.  If it weren't such a long drive we'd probably go every weekend!  On a side note, the zoo is up near Dublin, OH ...another "I could live there" city.  That now makes my total "ICLT" cities probably close to 50...should make retirement interesting. Moving on...moving on... OK so, like I said, the zoo is huge.  They had so many different animals that we left the...