The weekend and week ahead

We had a great weekend, Dave had Saturday off so we headed out early to run some errands. Our first stop was Dick's Sporting Goods so Dave could spend some of his birthday money, which he did an excellent job of doing. Then it was off to the Farmer's Market. However, this week we ventured farther west to the Dixie Lee Junction Farmer's Market. It's a smaller farmers market than the Market Square Farmers Market, but we did manage to purchase some fresh Tennessee peaches and squash. After the Farmers Market we made a trip to Target, which was brave of us considering it was Tennessee's tax free shopping weekend. Surprisingly the store wasn't too crowded, except for the school supplies section. I did have to grab a few school supplies for Dylan to take to daycare (crayons, watercolors, glue and kleenex) but I was able to grab those easily and meet up with Dylan and Dave.
We had a great lunch at Pimento Cafe. Dave had his usual, pimento cheese with turkey and I had a turkey Reuben, both really good sandwiches. Dylan had a grilled cheese and chips, I think he only had about two bites of the sandwich and then just ate chips. And drank milk, that kid loves his milk and juice (well, mostly water with a little juice). He would just drink beverages all day if we didn't limit them and have him eat.
The rest of our day was pretty low key, Dave also got a new pair of running shoes and we got take out from Famous Daves.

Our week is pretty busy though, Carolyn comes into town on Wednesday night, my mom, Judy, gets here on Thursday night and Dana and Paul come into town on Friday. We are celebrating Dylan's birthday on Saturday at the Cove at Concord Park. It's a great park on the lake and has a large playground, lots of trees and fun things to do. We went to a birthday party there a few months ago and Dylan had a great time. I am going to be making Dylan an Elmo cake for his birthday so wish me luck, hopefully the decorating will turn out ok!

What do you have planned for your week?

Parades and Fireworks

We started our 4th of July holiday weekend off with the annual Farragut 4th of July parade. It was Dylan's first parade and he had a great time. We met our friends Stacy, Tyler and Cooper and the parade and Dylan had a good time playing with Tyler. There were lots of floats, boats, cars, bands and all the usual parade fare. And there was Elmo. Dylan loves Elmo, but I'm not sure what he thought when he saw a huge Elmo in person. I think he was a little scared, but that wore off rather quickly and he gave Elmo a big hug. He also loves the Chick-fil-a cows. He ran as fast as he could to the cows and gave one a huge hug. I'm surprised he didn't knock the cow over as fast as he ran at it!


Sunday night we went over to our friends Meredith and Lukes house for a 4th of July BBQ. They had great food and we had a really good time running around the backyard with Dylan and playing bags and badmitten. Dylan also had lots of fun kicking the ball around the yard with Luke.

Meredith and Luke live close to a golf course community that has fireworks every year, so as it started to get dark we walked over to claim our spot for the fireworks. Since it was Dylan's first time seeing fireworks I wasn't sure how he would react, but he did great! He was a little scared when they were first shot off, but then he was fine. He just stayed very close to me the entire time. We didn't get home until close to 11pm, so Dylan had a very late night and luckily slept in until 8:30am on Monday morning and then took a 3.5 hour nap on Monday afternoon!

Two-fer Tuesday

Dylan and Tyler saying hi to Elmo at the Farragut 4th of July Parade.

Dave, Dylan and I on the 4th of July.