Date Night, Dinners, Farmers Market

Do not forsake the gathering of yourselves together

There is nothing like sitting around and enjoying dinner with family and friends and we've been full of wonderful moments like that this week.

Lisa Pizza had us over to her place for some good food Wednesday night.

We had yummy tacos and good association.

Her sister Lori Story along with her roomies, were there.

Lisa played some awesome beats on the bass

The kids caught Fireflies

It was good times!

This weekend, Ana and Lani came to town.

Saturday, we visited the Farmer's Market, our first time this year.

Nani bought a HUGE bucket of blackberries and made some delicious blackberry cream pies.

Ana's belly has definitely poked out, I can't WAIT to meet my new niece!!

We hung out at M&G's until it was time for our date night.

The kids spent the evening playing with friends and we headed out for some one on one time!

We saw X-men.

{Much better than expected}

For dinner, we had African.

{Good, but definitely NOT real African food}
For dessert, we went to Brightleaf and tried blueberry cheesecake...
it was nasty {I guess NY spoiled us} so we traded it in for a Strawberry Crepe
A nice enjoyable evening with that guy I love :)

Sunday, We headed back over to M&G's 
for dinner with family and friends.


I knew Z&D with their twin girls would be there
But Tricia's presence was a nice surprise.


We enjoyed good food, yuuummmy blackberry cream pie, 
and good friends.


Ethylwolfe & ClaireBear were good buddies as per usual lately
and he made a crown of flowers for her hair.


The kids ended the night by catching fireflies.
The fireflies were aplenty and KennaKat caught about 20...
{no exaggeration}

The new week has already started with lots of fun, and more in store.
I can't wait to share more adventures and pictures.
Tah tah for now.

I forgot to wrap up May...

We've been so busy that I forgot to give a nice little wrap up for the month of May.

Before I do though, what do you think of the remodeled site?

I'm thinking maybe a new look every few months?

What do you think about the tunes?

{So this is May}

A Black Swallowtail Butterfly laid eggs on one of Garry's dill plants,
so he gave it to us to observe the metamorphosis.

Unfortunately for us {and them}, the last remaining caterpillar died the day after we got back from NY so we didn't get to complete the observation :(  But here is one plump little guy right before we left for our trip.

We siblings met up for dinner in Gboro, I didn't get many pictures but here are a few....

{I really need to be better about getting everyone in pictures}

We had another date night.

Painted some pottery

{Husband refused & contented himself by watching me}

Ate at Carrburritos

{One of my favorite places, mainly because of the homemade flour chips and chipotle salsa}

Then we enjoyed some of the sights of C-hill until our time was up.

{My completed pottery piece}

A trip to the mall with Nani

{Yes, I am now aware that I only took pictures of KennaKat}

Our first meeting after we returned from NY, 2 very sleepy kids :)

Ready yourself for a load of pictures....

The last Saturday of the month, we went to our friends house.

Several families got together and rented tons of awesome stuff...

Water slides, bounce house, regular slide, popcorn maker, 

and a cotton candy machine.

The kids had a blast, and I got camera happy :)

This completes our month of May, or atleast the parts that I took pictures of.

Have a lovely day :)

Saturday Afternoon flower making & Date Night

We are sooo stuffed from
dinner, tired,and yes,
I forgot to wear makeup...

Yes, you heard right, We had a Date Night!  Woohoo!  We haven't had a date night since....our Anniversary...which is in September...


A sad acknowledgement, but true nevertheless.  It's pathetic, but will you believe that several other friends are in the same boat?  So, we joined forces to do something about it.  Once a month, one of us will tackle kid night, meaning, watch all of the crazy kids and have one night of chaos so that the other 2 couples can have a night to themselves, kid free, and without having to pay someone to watch them.  They can go out or stay in or as one friend said, "sleep 5 hours!". (It's a 5 hour time slot by the way).  It will work out so that in a 3 month period, we will have each had 2 date nights!  Beats once every 6 months any day!!


Our joined forces hasn't officially begun.  When we went out Saturday night, I was finally cashing in on something Amy offered in April 2010.  Yeah...I'm kinda slow about cashing in on gift cards and offers....so offer away, because who knows how long it will take me to cash in on your offer, hee hee!  We went to an early movie (cashed in on a movie gift card that Nani gave us in 2009) and used the gift card to a Restaurant that Amy gave us last April.  We had a very nice time, though I must admit that we were so tired, it was a nice quiet evening.  I read on another blog how this couple each wrote down 10 things they like to do individually, hobbies, activities, etc or things they wanted to try and then each date night, they draw an idea out of the hat and do it together (even though they aren't both good at it).  So I think I just may try to incorporate that into our newly established date night routine.  I think it will be fun.

Rockin the newly vamped
shirt on date night!

 After service on Saturday, I got into craft mode and started making tons of fabric flowers.  I have a lot of plain t-shirts that need jazzin' up.  I've had this plan for a long time, and finally decided to get busy.  Once I learn how to use my sewing machine, my t-shirts will get much more love and funkiness but for now, this is what I'm doing.  I enjoyed making them so much that I made a few hair accessories for KennaKat and a few for our girly friends.  I can't wait to pass them out tomorrow!

Shirt #1

Shirt #2

Barrettes for KennaKat

The best part about making things for myself is it's cheap and I can do what I want.  All items were from my stash so this project was free!  If you'd like to learn how to make these, bring over a bottle of wine, wait, scratch that, Sour Apple Martini mix and we'll make a night of it.