Our 8th Anniversary fell on a Monday this year. We really wanted to attend the Temple but they are closed on Mondays and with all our weekends in June already spoken for we opted to celebrate our anniversary on it's actual day and still head down to the valley and just have some fun. Nathan and Bracken spent Sunday night with Grandma and Grandpa Kleinman so we could get an early start, but it ended up that we used the time to sleep in a little and then combined with caring for an infant along with my inability to control my hair (you would think by the age of 29 I would have the whole hair thing down but some days it still gets the better of me) we hit the road a few hours later than planned. But luckily we didn't have any pressing business other than leisurely filling our time so it worked out fine. We stopped in at Ikea and picked up a few things for our bedroom. I have been itching for some change around the house and decided to start with our room since what I had in mind were small changes compared to other spaces in our home. Not having our older children with us allowed us to soak everything in and take our time getting ideas for other future projects. After that we ate a late lunch at Mimi's Cafe, and then did a little shoe shopping for Curtis. He was in desperate need of new b-ball shoes and we were able to find a pair that fit his long size 14 feet comfortably. On our way home we grabbed some frozen custard from Cullvers and headed back to our boys. I forgot the camera so no pictures to document the day but it was a fun and rejuvenating outing with my love.
Later that same week, Grandma and Grandpa Kleinman took our little family out to the Windmill House, a nursery/restaurant/event location in Chino Valley, for dinner. The Windmill House has gorgeous grounds and the boys loved running free and enjoying the fresh, cool evening air. We all enjoyed the BBQ buffet and live country music. Bracken even treated me to a few dances. He even joined Curtis and I during a waltz. I wasn't able to talk Nate into dancing with me, he had one of his rare shy and reserved moments which he later regretted. Every now and then Nathan tries to talk me into eating dinner there again so he can dance with me too.
After dinner the Grandparents lingered in the dinning room to enjoy more music and watch our sleeping Marco allowing the rest of us to play a rousing game of tag outside. It was a blast. We were all laughing like crazy and for some reason all my boys, especially Curtis, enjoyed ganging up on me so I was "it" a lot.
If you look really close you can see Nate and Brack on the play set. They had noticed it through a fence in another part of the property and the little buggers figured out a way to get to it. I was impressed with their craftiness.
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