No sound is more pleasing to the ears than the three little words..."four-day-weekend." Chris and I both took an extra day off to chill out and spend some family time. Thursday we headed to the zoo, which was also a popular idea with the rest of Indianapolis. Friday, my mom had both of the girls overnight and we had dinner at my favorite restaurant, The Old Spaghetti Factory. I worked there for a summer in college and going there always brings back memories. Afterwards we enjoyed the thrill of going to bed AND waking up completely according to our own schedule. Amazing.
As part of our official transition to adulthood, we shopped for and purchased a new sofa and bookcases for our living room. Although I had grown rather fond of the "dorm" look (i.e. broken futon with mis-matched end table/coffee table, and rickety over-loaded book shelf) I'll admit the room has lately taken on a sort of, well, dismal and non-functional feel to it. In a risky move, the sofa we finally decided on has white cushions! I figure NiNi is almost 3 1/2 and therefore not really a toddler anymore... and no more babies are expected as far as it is up to us...so maybe I'm not totally out of my mind. Plus, we purchased the 5 year stain warranty. This means that until 2014 you can come over and pee, vomit or spill nail polish on my couch and someone will come over and clean it right up.
We had a relaxing evening with friends for one of the chilliest 4th of July's I can remember. I was very excited to try my hand at cedar-plank grilling. The salmon turned out very tasty. Later we built a fire in the fireplace. Below is a picture of the kids warming their feet after running around barefoot in the rain for a couple of hours.
We sort of nixed going to the fireworks since we thought they might get cancelled and we were all pretty pooped anyway.
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