Memorial Day weekend

(I realize this post is late in coming too...but I already had the pictures

and most of the words prepared...so better late than never

on blog post!)

For Memorial Day, Max and Mama headed to Dayton for the long

weekend. We left Papa Rob at home to

put together our new shed and tear down our old one!

It's sometimes just easier to get stuff done when

your three year old isn't running all around

trying to "help" but actually getting into everything.

Auntie Stacy was originally going to come home for the

weekend too, but in the end decided to stay in Columbus.

That means I got my parents all to myself!  And

I'm not even going to lie - it was glorious!! My mom

and dad catered to my every whim :) Starting with

a visit to the Deer Run pool on Friday evening

and ending with Skyline chili for dinner.

 

 Sadly, upon arriving at the pool, we learned that the

heater was not on and the water was FRIGID.

I could only manage to get my feet in and thus

sat on the side. Max managed to get some of his

body in - but mostly just wanted to boss Mims

and Grandpa around and "push them in".

They were amazing sports about it - and actually

let him, but man, you guys, it was like polar bear cold.

Saturday, we drove to Grandma's Gardens where

I picked out a few more flowers (while silently,

hoping that Papa Rob wouldn't kill me).  This

garden store actually also has goats you can feed.

Normally, Max just wants us to feed them but this

time he actually did it himself! I was so proud of him!

 

Grandpa toured Max around while Mims and I

made our selections and managed to fill up

the entire back of Grandpa's car!

We headed into downtown Lebanon after

the garden store so I could shop at a store

called Blume.  We went there during the

winter holiday and I've been thinking

about it nonstop.  I managed to purchase

just a tee shirt...but man, I could have

bought most everything. Then, we walked

down to the train station. Max was in heaven exploring

all the trains. The engine, the passenger car, and

caboose...we did them all!  

 Saturday evening, Mims and Grandpa had a retirement

party to go to - so, Max and I hung out with Poppy.

We drove to Chick-fil-A for dinner.

Max shared his ice cream cone with Poppy and Poppy

let him do some paper shredding and stapling (two of his

favorite things to do). It was so cute to see the two 

of them interacting. 

On Sunday morning, we drove to one of my favorite spots, 

called The Glen Helen Raptor Center. They rehab 

injured raptors (like owls, hawks, and eagles). 

Max liked pointing out each of the birds in their 

homes and then promptly told us he wanted to go home. :)

Thankfully, we convinced Max that we should stay 

in Yellow Springs a bit longer :)  We found an 

awesome park area (part of their school I believe)...

and he was loving the climbing structures. 

They also had an awesome sunflower/peace

mural. You can kind of see some of it in the picture 

below. After the playground we did some shopping

in the record store (Grandpa's choice), and the toy 

store (Max's choice).  Mims bought him a butterfly

net and bug box! 

We ate lunch in the Subway before heading home.

Max was asleep before we were even on the highway!

Our actual Memorial Day was spent with a trip to Whole

Foods and Antiques village (while Max played with 

Grandpa), silly snap chats...more pool time, a cookout with the 

great grandparents...and a finished shed!!

While we hated that Rob stayed back and did all the 

hard work of putting together the shed...we both agreed

it looks AMAZING. We ended up moving the location

of the shed to a different part of our yard...and it just

makes our backyard look so much bigger!

Hope your weekend was full of fun!
xoxo