[Baby] A-aron!

Halfway through the week... made it!

Today was a blur at the desk, but well worth it, and end of the day showed up to move us from the work day to the dinner hour.

And I guarantee my dinner date was cooler than yours! ;)

gaahhh!

Seriously... he's the cutest new kid on the block, and ooookay, his parents are decent, too ;)

he literally is a tiny clone of his parents 

We set dinner at a central location, which also happens to be one of our favorites.... and should also happen to be where you go if you're ever over on Beechmont Ave around the dinner hour.

the stokes & the doeblers!

I have to brag on my dear friend Catie, because she's a stellar mom already and because although we haven't really had the time around life to get together as much as I'd like, we still pick up right where we left off.

a *quick* peek at the last decade... haha

And then today, when we tried to take a picture but kept remembering some likely 9-year-old memory that was way too funny and very likely just as, if not more.. ridiculous.

love you, beautiful friend! 

Happy Wednesday, blogbots! We made it halfway to the weekend! ;)

xo | cms

!! WEDDING BONANZAS !!

Where to start?!

Today.. was... AWESOME.

First, Sydni and I got to lounge around and do all of nothing while Rob set off on his mission of a Mother's Day surprise for me. Long story short, he scooted off in my car to get my surprise, which turned out to be a new windshield and tires! Talk about a lucky girl. It was making me crazy having that giant crack in my windshield for two weeks, and I needed to upgrade the tires, too... and I have a guy here who gets boyfriend of the year for that alone ;). THANK YOU, Rob ♥. You're. The. BEST.

After my excitement over my car was expressed, I took care of some last minute errands, dropped Sydni off at her dad's, and came back home to get ready for the long-awaited evening: The DOEBLER WEDDING!

*Squeaaaaal!!!

Pictures, you say? Okay. Here ya go!

oh, the anticipation!!! seated & ready to go!

this girl came in right behind us (: yay, kim!

omgomgomgomgomg, they're married!!!

& From the DOEBLER Cocktail Hour..

pinay power mode with jen ;)

my beautiful former roommate trisha

& moving upstairs, to

The DOEBLER Reception!!

gorgeous.

fun!

I took my best friend to the wedding:

love. him.

muahh♥

We were seated at Table 5.

This was on our table:  

#catieandandy!

Fine. You asked for it!

#CATIEANDANDY | #TABLE5

#CATIEANDANDY | #TABLE5

catie & the ladies [minus ravae] of #TABLE5 ♥♥♥♥♥
.... #CATIEANDANDY hehe..

 >>> Hello, Mrs. DOEBLER! <<<

loooooove!!!! ♥♥♥



me. catie. jen

You know it's a good party when you don't have that many pictures [which kinda stinks, but we got some, and that's what matters!]





this guy♥





catie & her mama

related, you think? ;)

with the gorgeous bride!

I LOVE a good party. 

 

Catie & Andy,
THANK YOU for including us to join in and celebrate your WEDDING! We had a BLAST, and love you both to the moon & back. xoxoxo. Cheers to a LIFETIME of everything that makes you two what you are as a unit, and all the love & laughter that comes with it!!

Love love & more love,
Corin & Rob

 

The Doebler wedding was of course the spotlight of our night, but I have two other sets of lovelies in my life who were also married today!!

 

To Suzie & Adam, your pictures were GORGEOUS! I hope Louisville is treating you well & wish you all the very, very best! ♥

mr. & mrs. sabin

Aaaaand, Jay & Trey! After just being at your house earlier this week, I wouldn't have recognized it with the gorgeous setup you had! Congratulations to both of you!!! Wishing you two generations of love & happiness!♥

jay & trey

Oh man.. what an amazing, love-filled day for basically ALL of us! Wedding season is upon us, folks... and I love it.

 

Congratulations to ALL the newly-weds!

And happy weekend to the rest of you!

 

xo | cmd

The Doeblerts: Stock the Bar Train Jamboree!

*backdated! ;)

I've seriously been waiting all week for this.
By mid-morning, Rob and I were in the car, en route to Connersville, IN to rendezvous with Catie, Andy & Co. for their Stock the Bar Train Jamboree [aka, joint wedding shower]. Let me tell you, this was a genius idea, and an all-around awesome time for everyone.

I'll spare the chatter & get straight to the pictures. I borrowed a couple from Ryan & Reena, but since I forgot to bring the D90, I had to count on Ryan's Canon to capture a lot of the day (:




whitewater vally railroad | connersville, in

We boarded the train and got caught up with some familiar faces we hadn't seen in a while...

jen! a little filipino love for the trip (:

me, catie & trisha: "roommates," 6 years later!

the beardless guy i brought to the party ;) ♥♥♥♥

This was a legit train ride, complete with a conductor, tickets & all:

(:

and yes, we made him yell, "aaaaaaaaaall aboooooard!"

Once we started moving, The Tye Dyes [aka, Catie & her band] provided some of the soundtrack for the trip out to Laurel. There is nothing quite like an old fashioned train ride with awesome people and live bluegrass music. I could do this every Saturday.

LOVED IT!


yeah, catie!!

Of course, there's nothing like an unfortunate fender bender to add some awe and quick prayer to the first train ride we've taken in a long time. It didn't appear that anyone had been hurt, but we did spend the next 10 minutes after this all speculating on how that may've happened..

ouch :(

The train plugged along for about 45 minutes before we reached Laurel. There, we were met with some Indiana hospitality for lunch.

not nearly as shanty as it might look!

you had us at fried food

^ Lunch = buffet. Of fried food. Let's be honest, nobody was watching their diets today, and a good thing, too, because the food was pretty good. I'm pretty sure we were all back for seconds, if that says anything. (:

After lunch, we all took to exploring a bit outside the restaurant. The train was awaiting us just a few meters away on the tracks; there will be lots of pictures surfacing soon of us all on the train as it stood waiting. 

yes, that's rob. lol ♥♥♥

We boarded back on the train for the trip home, and watched as Catie & Andy tore into all the gifts that were brought to actually stock the bar. I think they did pretty good, haha..

stocking the bar for these two!

because why not?

We arrived back in Connersville, and bid temporary farewells to everyone. Back in Cincinnati, I managed to squeeze in a quick catnap before I was up and heading right back out the door to Rhinegeist for the girls-only part of Catie's bachelorette party.


yessss!

traditional fobby picture from your brown girls ;) haha

I even got a random text from Trish, asking if I was getting into anything tonight. I told her to come and join us, so she did, and it was awesome having her there to spend the evening with us! We left Rhinegeist and bounced around some to good old OTR. Our final landing spot to finish the evening was The Drinkery, and we all left with huge smiles knowing we'd done our due duties as friends to celebrate Catie's approaching nuptials.

trish came to play!

adore her!!

Catie, I LOVE you, and I am SO excited to see you in a month, walking down to tie the knot with Andy! Thank you, THANK YOU for including me on your celebration. LOVE YOU!!!

xo | cmd

Dinner With Friends

Today flew past with flying colors. Literally. The sun was out, everything seemed... brighter, and I ventured outside to actually enjoy the fresh air at lunch. That's the first time this year. Spring is just around the corner!

it is a new day.. so smile!!

It even seemed a bit more cheery in the office. With the absence of windows in the back half of our space, we all took turns peeking around the front to soak in the sunlight of the day. The pace seemed busier and we are all excited about that.

Speaking of pace, I had to apologize to Rob tonight for getting impatient when he was late getting off work and making it to the house. He and I both put ourselves in overdrive at times when it comes to the at-work versions of ourselves, and when we get home, there are times that one - or both - of us will forget to downshift. So he changed clothes quicker than a racecar pit-crew, and we were back out the door to dinner with Becky, Catie & Andy and their neighbors Rachel & Travis.

Main Street Cafe it was. Chad of course took excellent care of us, despite our noisy, rowdy selves. Just kidding.. I don't think we were that bad. 

rachel. catie. becky. cori

^ We look super cheesy because this was taken just seconds after Andy went flying in front of us. Just.. sayin ;)

It looks like Jesse may be visiting this weekend, but we'll get all that figured out in the next day or so.

For now, good night!

xo | cmd

Friday: 5 Reasons IT. ROCKED.

Usually, Fridays come and go and serve up the excitement of 1] the work week ending, 2] Friday office lunches and sometimes 3] early releases that give the weekend a jumpstart.

TODAY however, Friday churned up five reasons to call it a slam dunk day. We'll go in chronological order, since all of them are pretty awesome!

1] JENNIE'S BIRTHDAY!

she's gorgeous!!! hbd, jennie!

Haaaaaaaaappy BIRTHDAY JD! This lovely lady celebrates another year young today! We agreed that now that I'm back in Ohio and am slowly migrating my way closer and closer to Columbus, I'll make it a point to get up there soon and we'll do some belated celebrating. I hope your day was amazing! ♥

2] SAMSUNG OR APPLE? HOW ABOUT ONE OF EACH?!

So, the bad news is.. that someone in Norwood managed to comandeer my work phone over the weekend. Since I don't typically tote it everywhere I go, we ascertained that someone either swiped it off my desk or I dropped it in the 40 feet between our door and my car. Either way, it didn't dull the anxiety of having to tell the bosses that I lost their phone. What softened the blow is realizing that my bosses are two of the most understanding individuals around, and advised me that it wasn't a big deal. Things happen. < Somehow, that made me feel even worse? Haha. Anyway, my now-kidnapped Samsung was officially replaced today with an iPhone. I'm a loyal Droid user without the faintest clue of how to operate an iAnything, so this.. should.. be interesting. Either way, that weight is off my shoulders and now I'm back on connected x2 status!

personal + work

P.S. - Don't worry, Droid... I'm not going anywhere ;)

3] JASON ALDEAN + MIRANDA LAMBERT + FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE + TYLER FAR??

.......... Yes, pleaaaase! I like all those names. I found out a few weeks back that Jason Aldean's Burn It Down tour was scheduled to come to Cincinnati in July, and that tickets went on sale today. Luckily, I realized the gravity of that statement, because in Cincinnati, tickets like this have a shelf life of abouuuuut 1 hour, if that. I wasn't wrong. I managed to snag 2 on-field seats for Rob & me at 10:04 AM, and saw that the entire show had sold out by about 10:40 AM. It's gonna be a beautiful, beautiful mayhem.

to say i'm excited is an uuuuunderstatement.

4] FAMILY. REUNION.

Let me repeat that: FAMILY.... REUNION. No, it's not my actual family, but I can explain. A week or so back, Ali and I orchestrated plans for her, Tim and Damanji to make the trek from IL to our new place here in Cincinnati to hang for the weekend. TODAY, I had a conversation with Marianne today that very quickly turned into the realization that she is ALSO free that weekend, and thus will be driving in from VA to join us.

omg. ooooooh....my.... gaahhhhhhhshhhhh..

The reason this is so phenomenal is because these four individuals are some of the best, hilarious friends I found in Illinois, and to have us all back together at the same time seems just too good to actually be happening. Among the other debachles I'm sure we'll find, there will absoLUTELY be an updated take of the awkward family photo. Not sure what that is? Well... here's the last one:

this.. just... this.

Is it MARCH yet?! I need to see these faces. There will be some shenanigans ensuing, without a doubt, but I... can't.... WAIT.

5] DOUBLE DINNER DATES! 

I'm not entirely sure what I did for the first half of this month, let alone the whole month of January. Whatever it was, it didn't include nearly enough facetime with Catie, so we decided last week that we'd get together tonight for dinner. It happened. It... happened.

how. i. love. her.

Rob & I met Catie & Andy at The Hitching Post, which was our first choice. When we realized they were closed [sorta?], we switched gears and landed at Allyn's. Goooood call (: It's actually the first real double dinner date Rob & I have done since he moved here, so it was undoubtedly a great time all the way around.

man oh man.. i love him.

And the food wasn't anything to shame, either!

sugar snap peas & salmon? sold.

If this is any indication on how the rest of the weekend is going to go, then we're in for a fun couple of days!

Tomorrow = Pinterest hack/tutorial [hopefully] on some wall art I planned today as an early Valentines Day gift to Rob and our little home. I'm pretty excited, and crossing my fingers that I don't botch it too bad.

See ya then!

xo | cmd