Illinois & In Betweens

We're home. In Ohio.

Earlier today, we were still in Illinois. It was a much warmer day than yesterday, which made for a perfect time relaxing outside for a bit before we climbed back in the car for the 5-hour homeward trek.

sweet. bitter. bittersweet.
illinois to ohio, ohio to illinois...

After breakfast, we dropped by Rob's dad's house. They've made some major headway in some home renovation projects they're doing, including the outline for a pool. We spent a couple hours there visiting and chatting with them.

Most of that time was spent with a happy Travis parked on my lap. Sure, he's all of 75 pounds, but hey, who's counting? 


travis!

sunshine & a happy pup!

 Then of course there was Toby:

he didn't want in the chair ;)

And when Travis finally decided he wanted some shade, too..  

happy boys

The "see you soon"'s came before we wanted them to, but we managed through it, and headed onward to say the same to Rob's mom. We spent a little time there of course, too, admiring the blossoms and checking out her screen room projects. She's got some monster blooms in her yard, and gave us a few little ones to take back to Sydni.

beautiful blossoms!

She recently did a furniture upgrade on her patio and now has some chairs that I decided today were exactly what we need for our dining room table. We looked at several chairs of the same structural style, but of course either upholstered, leather or just plain frame with seat cushions. Nothing so far has seemed to really sway me, until I saw these. Our table's a finicky thing to try and match, but I know that these will work just fine.

dark wicker highbacks.
#want.

I'll keep you posted on when we acquire some of these for our dining room ;)

Speaking of our dining room, fast forward through the road trip itself to the fact that we're back in it now, laughing at the note Mike & Becky left for us on the back of a small shipping envelope they'd found somewhere in the house:

hahaha

If you can't read it, it says:

BECKY KILLED YOUR SCREEN DOOR HANDLE (SHE'S BLAMING THE DOGS.. BUT THAT'S JUST TOO COMPLICATED. & I JUST FOUND OUT, TOO LATE TO FIX... HMMM). HOPE IT WAS A GOOD TRIP. - MIKE

Hahaha. I thought about rubbing this in Becky's face out of good fun, but since the latch on the back screen door has been jamming for the past few weeks, I decided I'd just wait and give her grief about something else ;)

 

Plus, I decided at the last minute to do lunches for us for tomorrow. Here's to healthy living, both at home and at work!

hers & his ♥

Phew. What a day. I'm outta here.

See ya, tomorrow!

 

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