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July 24, 2016

Family Fun Friday night at the Bay! We began our weekend with a couple of hours at Zoombeezi and daddy came along this time! Finn loves to take Kevin to all of his favorite places. This night we spent most of our time in the lazy river and the big wave pool. It’s been VERY warm, like typical summer, July, hot. What a better time to plant trees, right?! We purchased a Crimson King Norway Maple, Forest Pansy (purple) Redbud, and a Rising Sun (chartreuse) Redbud over the last couple of weeks. Since Kevin is on the Design Review Committee for our neighborhood (and you are supposed to get the ok to make changes to your houses/yards/landscaping) we felt we should go through the proper process. So that took a bit of time and then we spoke with our neighbors to ensure they are ok with our new trees and the playhouse that Kevin is going to build for Finn. So…..once we got all the okays it just so happened we had two Saturday’s left before vacation to get them in the ground. So we woke up Saturday morning and headed outdoors. The first one, the Rising Sun Redbud, was really easy. A smaller tree (read as a smaller hole to dig, lol) was in pretty quick. The purple maple on the other hand went into the area where we used to have a few evergreen spruces and Kevin ran in to a lot of old and large roots. So he broke out the sawzaw and was able to get them out. The purple redbud we put near the corner of our house. We are excited to see them grow! Griffin is in many of the pictures for scale 🙂 Mom and Dad also gave us a ‘Megan’s Angel’ hosta, which we were excited to receive. We planted it inside our fence to protect it from our deer predators! I took the photo of the Arborvitae that we planted in 2013 so I can go back and compare it to the size they were then. This year we’ve noticed the ones to the north (fence) are somewhat brown so we’ve been giving them extra water and some fertilizer spikes hoping they don’t croak!And here are a few others from our week. This weekend we took in the movie Ice Age at the Dublin theater. It was a nice retreat after having been outside all day planting trees on a hot and humid day. After the movie, we headed to Mellow Mushroom with the Bethunes and met up with Sammy and Debbie. Sam has been at his dad’s for a few weeks so Finn and Sam were able to see each other for a bit.

And Mom came down and treated us to lunch at Freshii. It was yummers! Afterward Mom, Finn, and I headed to the new outlet malls in Sunbury for a short stint of shopping! And date night this week was dinner downtown at Nada followed by the new Ghostbusters movie.

January 17, 2016

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We’ve had more of our usual activities this week including lots of play time inside, artwork, and Swim Lessons! We are going to be taking a bit of a break from lessons here soon and I recently asked Finn’s teacher when they move to a different class. I learned that when they turn 3 they move on to the class with just their teachers – no parents! What?! I was so sad as I really enjoy our time in the water each week. 🙁 And as we have some lessons to make up before our last lesson (or you lose them) we’ve been going twice a week for the last few weeks.

One new activity we tried out was Family Ice Cream Night – where we made our own Vanilla Ice Cream – one batch with mini chocolate chips and the other plain. It was delish! On Friday night we had an enjoyable family night out starting with pizza at Mellow Mushroom before we headed to the movie theater to see the Peanuts flick. Finn enjoyed it, and the popcorn too of course. Afterwards we went next door to the pet store (it’s one of Finn’s most favorite things to do is go play with the puppies and hold the animals and give the pups “pepal (special) treats”. Tonight we played with a fun and spunky husky. We ended our night with a sundae at the main Graeter’s, which is conveniently across the street from the movie theater! Finn loved that this location has an indoor playground. And here is Finn’s balloon from the balloon lady at Mellow Mushroom: in honor of heading to see the movie, she made him Snoopy!Here is our monkey on the way to swim lessons.And another shot of him showing his excellent balance skills.

We celebrated Andy’s dinner with the whole family down at Milestone 229. We had a delicious dinner and a nice night 🙂 Earlier in the afternoon mommy and Finn were making Rice Krispy treats and had an accident with the hot pan of marshmallows. Finn burned his hand pretty good – but he was a real trooper getting his hand all bandaged up. It finally snowed this week too, so the crew headed outdoors for a little fun in the snow and ended with hot cocoa and ice cream! And here are a couple shots of art in the making this week.

December 6, 2015

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December has arrived and we are in full holiday mode, as you can see. We’ve been busy with all kinds of activities from decorating our tree, to Finn’s first movie in a theater, baking, and having our yearly tradition “candy making party” at our house with family and friends. The days are ever-so-busy and seem to pass faster than I would like!

First things first, this year we have an Advent Calendar! We got a fun one with animals, wisemen, Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus so that Finn can help put them on each day. We found a printable “advent calendar” that had a verse for each day telling the story of Jesus’ birth. The Angel was the first one on the calendar this year and Finn put it in the perfect spot.
We took Finn to his first movie in a theater this week, to see A Christmas Story. He really seemed to enjoy it and didn’t make a peep the entire time. We went to a theater that serves food (and a ginormous bucket of popcorn!) during the show so we enjoyed some dinner during the movie. We are blessed with this little guy. We decorated our tree one evening in preparation for our candy party. Finn loved helping us and looking at all of the ornaments. We all love having such a tall tree! Sadly, we had one tragedy as the ornament that Kevin gave me in December 2011 when we first began dating fell to the floor as Finn and I were putting it up. It was a glass snow globe and unfortunately it shattered :(. Kevin snapped a photo though for memories sake. Kind of at the last minute on Friday I asked Finn if he wanted to make some cookies. We made chocolate chip first, and then I figured it would be fun to make the cookie press cookies so he could help with the dough gun and then decorate them. It was fun (and messy)! We awoke on Saturday morning and got right to party prep – making the peanut butter mixture that we would use later in the afternoon to make buckeyes! Finn is excellent at dumping. We have a pretty good system in place where I measure and he dumps. He’s also really good at turning on the mixer (!). Our friends and family began arriving around noon for our yearly tradition of making Hard Tack Candy and Buckeyes. Our flavors this year were cherry, black licorice, peppermint, sassafras, lemon, and cinnamon. And new this year, we made chocolate truffles too (chocolate/orange and chocolate/vanilla). We enjoyed the company of Mom and Dad, Amy, Andy, and the kids, the Mannings, Conrads, and part of the Kessler, Ryan, and Lewis families. We had a good sized crowd of 12 adults and 14 kiddos. Once again, Mom and Amy did a few crafts with the kids in the basement too, making Christmas ornaments – but somehow I didn’t get a photo of any! Lots of deliciousness by the end of the afternoon! Whew. That was lots of work!!