Christmas in August

Apparently Lane is way ready for Santa to visit.  She asked me to write out a christmas list for her, and she told me she definitely plans on adding to it.  I told her that Santa may just be getting us the Disney world trip for Christmas, but she wasn't buying that.  We shall see...

Birthday

Back on the 31st of July I celebrated my birthday.  I'm officially 38 years young and even though I don't like to get older, it's one more year I've had to be alive, so I should be grateful!

This year on my birthday Ryan was in Alaska fishing(great timing on his part, haha)but my mom flew in for the occasion so it was all good.  

Mom took me to Miss Molly's Tea Room in the Medina square for lunch, we shopped at some cute little stores on the square, then we had dinner at Macaroni Grill.  I think the theme for my birthday was shopping and eating.  Not a bad day!  At Macaroni Grill we sat in the best booth in the place and there was a dozen roses waiting for me at the table from my sweet hubby.  I got Happy Birthday sang to me opera style, it was pretty neat!

I appreciated my mom and my little girls doing their best to make my day extra special.

Medina County Fair

Today Ryan, the girls and I went to the Medina County Fair.  It's normally the last week of July each year, last year we missed it because we were just moving into our house.  As Medina citizens we couldn't let this week go by without checking it out.

It was the perfect day for a fair, upper 60's and cloudy.  We saw horses, goats, ducks, sheep, cows, and the main reason we went to the fair; the pigs.  This past year Addyson had a friend in her class named Griffin and they became fast friends.  Griffin's family raises pigs and in February one of the pigs had a litter and one of the baby girl pigs got named Addyson.  Not many people get a pig named after them?!  I told Addyson she should feel honored, haha. Addyson the pig was being shown at the fair today and she won 5th place out of 15 pigs shown in her class.  Not bad!  We went to the pig pens to visit Addyson, Griffin and Griffin's mom.  We couldn't go to the fair without eating some fair food so cotton candy and fried Swiss cheese were had.  So good, I mean fried Swiss cheese??  Yep, pretty tasty stuff.  It was a great day, we will definitely need to make the fair an annual tradition in our family.

10 Years

Yesterday Ryan and I celebrated 10 years of wedded bliss.  Well, maybe not completely blissful for every single minute of those 10 years, but I'd say we've had a good ride so far.  

Ryan has been a work-a-holic for the past two weeks and yesterday he started his vacation from work for about 10 days, a MUCH needed one for him(and me!) I'd say.  He started things off by surprising me with a beautiful pair of diamond earrings.  I was surprised because he got me a pair six years ago for christmas, and before new years one of them turned up missing.  Not good.  I didn't think I'd get another pair so I was pretty darn  thrilled to get these.  Next up we summoned our favorite babysitter, Alli, to come sit with the girls and we headed out to see some sights in downtown Cleveland.  We chose Blue Point Seafood for dinner, then headed back out to the suburbs for some Z's ice cream for dessert.  It was a great evening filled with laughter, lots of reminiscing(we figured out that on our 20th anniversary Addyson will have just graduated from high school.  Oh boy), full tummies, and happiness.  Looking forward to what the next decade has in store for us!

One Cool Cat

The girls had too much time on their hands today, and this was the result.  Best.  Cat.  Ever.

Lemon Blueberry Bread

This morning I woke up ready to tackle my house, laundry, dishes, toy clutter and a new recipe I wanted to try.  I think the sun shining had something to do with my motivation as its been cloudy most of the week.  Love mornings like that!  Anyway, I tried my hand at some lemon blueberry bread, and I chose that to make because Ryan is traveling this week and he wouldn't care much to eat this particular sweet.  He's an ice cream, cookie dough, brownie type of guy, not a bread-fruit fan.  I think it turned out pretty good!  Lane helped me, as she usually does in the kitchen, and we had fun.  She grated some lemon zest and I let her measure out the 1/2 c of milk.

This afternoon we've been invited to go play at Joan and Anna's house, our neighbors, so I think Joan probably needs to try my bread.  I think she'll like it.  

Happy Tuesday-

Such a Clown

Laney is one funny kid.  I seriously will miss having her around after school starts.  She can make me laugh like no one else.  She has the best one liners ever, sometimes I'm surprised she's only 5!  Last night she, her dad and I were playing Go Fish before bed and it was Ryan's turn to go.  She looks at him and says, "It's your Go Fish, brother".  Of course these are things you have to hear in person to appreciate.  She was in the spa earlier and it was rainy, and the clouds turned to sun so I told her it was either time to get out or put sunscreen on.  She said, "Well you better grab that sunscreen, Mama Johnson". 

Addyson is my more serious, thinker of a kid, lane on the other hand is the free spirited little comedienne.  Who knew kids could be so different....