Look who got to bring home the class mascot this week! Finn was so excited to bring home Tony the Tiger from his class. We had an action packed weekend weekend and Tony was able to join us on our adventures!
Tony’s first adventure was to help Finn make dinosaur fossils with Debbie and Sam. It looked like quite a fun baking experience. 
Next up was a bike ride through our neighborhood followed by ice cream at Graeters and plenty of snuggles. Yum!
On Saturday we went on a road trip to pick apples at Apple Hill with Mom and Dad. It was a warm and sunny afternoon, a perfect day to be outside! And once again, Lily was able to join us. This girl is getting to be pretty spoiled!
Afterwards we decided on a whim to stop for dinner at the Buckeye Diner, which is just off Rt 97 exit of 71. The restaurant is an old train that has been converted to a diner. We all had burgers and fries and played around a bit outside before heading home. 
Sunday was yet another beautiful day and our adventures took us to our annual trip to the New Albany Classic. It was WARM and sunny. The layout was a bit different this year so all of the inflatables were in the sunshine, which made it nice yet very hot! Tony the Tiger got to meet princesses and see some horse-jumping. One of Finn’s favorite parts was new this year. They had a Hollywood exhibit that showcased costumes and apparel from movies and shows. Batman, Spiderman, Ironman and many other characters outfits were there. The plants in this exhibit looked really cool this year, most of them were from Millcreek!
And here are a few others from our week. Finn is getting to be really great using a knife for cutting. Here he wanted to help me cut onions for dinner and he did a fine job. Finn, Debbie, and Sam also ventured to Highbanks Metro Park this week where they explored nature and got their feet wet! And they made yummy pumpkin sugar-cookie cut-outs!
We had a fun pillow fight too. 
Dad had put out a lot of the plant markers we gave him for his birthday too – I took these photos to send to Kevin while he was on his trip :).
On Friday we went to the annual Powell Festival and met up with a couple of our neighbors. We had fun listening to live bands, enjoying the food trucks, and Finn loved the kids zone play area. 
And even though we are already well into summer, this year we’ve been talking about putting together a bucket list of summer time activities. So one morning I wrote it all out – we’ve got fun plans ahead!
Check out our little exercise man! I’ve been doing P90x3 for a couple of months now and Griffin has taken to my yoga mat pretty well. He loves to exercise with me – and man is his core strong. Oh to be young again, lol! This particular day I put him down for a nap. I had been checking in on him using the video monitor as I could tell he wasn’t falling asleep. About halfway through my workout I hear “Momma, I done sleeping”, so I yelled up and asked him to come down and lay on the couch and rest while I finished. That lasted about 10 minutes and for the last 5 or so of the video he got down on the floor and exercised with me 🙂 He is also really great at push ups!
When I do my workout videos in the family room, I usually have an audience of Lily and Cameron. It has certainly been a very emotionally taxing time for our family over the last couple of months, and weeks, in particular. Cammie’s health (really her tail) wasn’t improving and we made the very painful decision to say goodbye to her this week. It is such a hard thing to do, this girl has been through all the ups and downs of life with me and our family for as long as I can remember. And as I said in our post about her, she was a sweet yet stubborn and sassy girl. We miss her (and the sound of her beating her tail) a lot and Finn regularly talks about how she is up in “heben” (heaven) chasing balls. 
Finn and Sammy ventured outside this week and built Frosty, complete with a hat and gloves! 
And quite a mess of his books:
And some snuggles (or smothers!) with Lily:
And a simple mommy and son dinner one night. I’ve told some of you this before, but I originally bought the Fruity Pebbles (although they are the ALDI brand) cereal for me. However, it quickly became Finn’s cereal of choice and he asks for it by calling it “colored” cereal. This particular night I had the “adult” cereal and Finn had the “colored” cereal. About halfway through he said “let’s trade”. So sure enough, I got the “colored” cereal. Yum, lol! 
And this weekend included a boys adventure to Enon, where Finn and Daddy enjoyed lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa, checking out the progress on their new house. Kevin used the warm day to empty out a storage unit from back in his single days :). An extra special treat was the warm, sunny, and windy weather which made for a nice afternoon at the park that is right down the road from Grandma and Grandpa’s new house! Joe went along for the ride too. Joe, you know, Finn’s scooter. He pretends he is a horse and when he’s finished riding him he puts him back in the barn for the night. Oh, and he does his business outside in the yard, like Lily. This boy – his imagination is non-stop!
While the boys had their fun, I spent the afternoon hanging out with my college girl friends Amy, Jaime, and Kim. We basically hopped from restaurant to restaurant, from Dublin to Easton, and back to Dublin. We enjoyed catching up on each others lives, kids, spouses, and such. And it was a treat to be able to enjoy the nice and unseasonably warm weather. Though we don’t see each other as often as we would like, we always have fun when we get together!