This week Brian and Emily celebrate their third anniversary! Opa and I went to visit them for the weekend . . . for two reasons. First, we love to visit with everybody including Aunt Melanie and Katy and David. Second, we were the designated babysitters for Saturday night so that Brian and Emily could go out for the evening and have a nice dinner and spend the evening together.We arrived mid-day on Friday, and we all went to dinner in the Short North at a micro-brewery called Barley's. The food turned out to be as good as the ale, and we all had a good time talking and passing David around so he wouldn't get bored. We even found some stuff to eat that didn't blow our Weight Watcher points . . . until Melanie ordered the Hunka Hunka chocolate cake for dessert. This was served on a dinner plate with 5 or 6 spoons and a couple of mountains of whipped cream. I think we all used a few of our extra points on THAT one.
Saturday was kind of a lazy day, although Melanie and Emily and Oma (and David) went out to the Macy's in Upper Arlington so that Emily could shop for a new bathing suit with her birthday money. She ended up getting a really pretty bathing suit, and she looks great in it because of all her hard work with WW to get rid of the baby fat left over from David!
Oma made David some new t-shirts and brought some new books about tractors and cranes. It turned out that Katy really like the book about the construction equipment and spent some time watching "bideo's" on Opa's computer of cranes and dump trucks and diggers and rock breakers. We must have read those books two dozen times or more. Oma also brought Katy a new shorts outfit with Dora the Explorer on it, which Katy is proudly displaying here. The outfit was cute; but Katy is cuter.
Brian and Emily did manage to go out Saturday night to Moretti's. Drew and Melanie came over after the kids went to bed; and Oma stayed up with them to watch The Bucket List. I really enjoyed this movie. So many movies are stupid; but this one made me laugh and it made me cry and still feel good at the end. It didn't offend me with bad language and sexual references, either. It is a rare movie that can do this that isn't aimed at the under 13 age group these days. So try it out! Brian and Emily came home full of veggie lasagna and relaxed from driving around doing what they wanted for a few hours . . . and going to Target. No anniversary is complete without a trip to Target!
Today we went to church at Heritage and then had lunch at Fazoli's. Emily used to work at Fazoli's in Dayton during college; and Jen and Katie S. also have fond memories of prep work and drive through headsets. The breadsticks are still great, too. Great Grandpa Garl can vouch for that!
My only regret is that Emily was not in the room for this picture. No studio can possibly beat this for a family shot, do you think?
4 comments:
Thanks for coming, it was so nice for you guys to be here.
I really like the way you did Katy's hair the day she wore the Dora outfit. I think I'll put that in my rotation. :)
Katy's been asking for you guys ever since she got up from nap. We even distracted her by going to the pool, but when we came back, she was looking for you again. She loves her Oma and Opa.
Glad you had such a fun weekend! Katie refuses to eat at Fazoli's, but I still like to go there. We made some fun memories when we worked with Emily.
We thought that maybe it would be better if Opa and Oma left BEFORE nap so Katy wouldn't think we always sneaked out while she was sleeping.
We miss her, too! We were sitting on the couch, and I said, "What does Katy wike?" Opa smiled.
You guys are so lucky that Oma and Opa see you often, and have such fun with Katy & David. Believe me, when they aren't around too much it makes you totally treasure grandparents. Oh, except in-laws. Oops, did I just say that??? he he he
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