Well, so much as happened since my last blog and I still need to download pictures. I think we have gotten rid of the fleas. I haven't had a new bite in 3 or so days. Yippee. Maybe they go south for the winter. Wes, Craig and I enjoyed Geauga Lake very much. Wes was very nice and wanted to make sure that Craig and I got to go on big people rides. Craig and I would take turns and ride a roller coaster. Its not as much fun riding by yourself. Craig and I also had our 2 year anniversary on Sept. 10th. Hard to believe its been 10 years. We haven't had a chance to celebrate w/ job stressors so this weekend we are going to Chicago to do some sightseeing or more like sight-eating. I can't wait to go to Gino's East for some deep dish pizza! Craig got a new job at PNC. He is really looking foward to some life/work balance and we are hoping PNC will provide. KPMG has been good to us and it was really hard on Craig to talk to his boss, but we both feel this will be a good move for him. And now this this weekend... what a crazy blur.
Friday: My brother and his wife went to NYC for the weekend so the rest of the family bounced the kids around our busy schedules. Friday night Craig and I skipped out on Chuck-E-Cheese and went to Sports Rock in the Strip for dinner. They had a mechanical bull and Craig rode it for 10 seconds so he won a shot and a VIP pass to some night club. I wish so badly I had a picture to prove this incident because never in my life would I think my husband, the CPA would be bull riding. He was very very proud. He gave his shot away to some guys at the bar, but he kept the VIP pass to prove that he rode the bull.
Saturday: We had a meeting w/ Home Depot in the morning to go over our final kitchen design. We are getting a new kitchen!! I'm so excited. I only have 10 inches of counter space right now and that is no exaggeration. Our kitchen needs remodeled so badly. The meeting was 3 hours long and I think we still have more meeting. Blah! I just want it to be done. Then we picked up Wes and Iris to take them to lunch so that my parents could get some stuff done for the house tour. Their house was picked to be part of the Deutschtown house tour
http://www.deutschtown.org/ - so they had some last minute cleaning and touching up to do on the house before 700+ people went through their house! So I asked Wes, where do you want to go to lunch and was trying to get him to say Eat-n-Park, but without fail he begged and begged to go to Chuck-E-Cheese. Because Craig and I are softies - there we were eating cardboard pizza and watching spazzed out kids run around punch buttons, knocking each other over, looking under the machine for lost tokens or tickets, etc. Remember Wes was just at Chuck-E-Cheese the night before. I swear this is a kid addicition. Luckily our kids were half in a stupor badly needing a nap so they were very well behaved and did as they were told. Iris just wanted to ride the carousel - or the "ferry-go-round" as Wes would call it. We had a lunch full of conversation. Iris is at the entertain you stage - so Wes spends most of the time saying "Iris, what does a dog say" Iris barks. "Iris, what does a duck say" Iris quacks. "Iris was does a pig say" Iris squinches up her nose and blows out like blowin in a kleenex - I love that one. Of course all the adults laugh on command and both kids are very proud of themselves. So we take them back to their house and put them down for naps. Then mamaw and papa arrive to relieve us. We head home to take a jog (what beautiful freakin' weather!) and then clean up for dinner at a co-workers house.
Sunday: We go to early church and then we have the kids waiting on our porch for us. Today is the house tour so my parents are attending to that all day. I also need to prepare because a bunch of friends that are going on the tour would like to see our house even though its not on the tour - so I need some snacks and wine to feed them. I head out to Donetelli's cute little Italian Market in Bloomfield (Pgh's little Italy). Craig watches both kids! Another feat that he accomplished - I was very proud. Granted he had a box full of crunch berries. What kid wouldn't love you with a box full of crunch berries. I come back and we head out to eat-n-park for lunch. I didn't even allow for a Chuck-E-Cheese option. Wes tried, but I said no. Eat-n-Park was PACKED! After lunch we walked to the fountains for a quick dip and then headed back up to their house to drop them off. Then back down to our house to do final touch ups on the house and prepare food for our guests. The guests arrived and loved the house and food. The Steeler game was also going on simeultaneously - so I did my wifely duties and sacrificed by entertaining while Craig and the husbands got to watch the game. Luckily it wasn't a game I wanted to watch. What the heck, Steelers?! I went to bed at 9pm. I was really tired and then I was rudely awoken by some crazy lady screaming outside on the street around 4am. I wanted to wring her neck. That's city livin. So after all that I was pretty worthless at work today- just dreaming about my 3 day work week and then off to Chicago baby!
I love Steeler parties! Every Sunday my family gets together to enjoy the game and try out new recipes. We always have way too much food. Of course Nachos are a favorite. This particular Sunday Steeler Party we headed out to Costco afterwards to enjoy some icecream bars. Iris wouldn't allow anyone to help her eat the icecream bar. She had to hold it herself. If anyone tried to help she would cry and slump to the ground. You can't tell from the picture but she is wearing the cutest little cheerleading outfit. She shakes what her momma gave her in her little skirt. Too cute. HERE WE GO STEELERS! HERE WE GO!
