2.28 Brewfest & Uncle Jason's visit

By Cyndi

June 24, 2013

I need another weekend to recover from our weekend!  It was packed full and everyone had lots of fun.  Jason arrived early Friday morning and I dropped him at our house to work from there and I headed to work.  Might I remind you of Jason's last visit was during pukefest 2012 in September, where T&Z had a virus that I initially thought was something they ate at school, followed by each of the rest of us getting the 24 nasty bug?!  And he came back to see us again ..... he termed it like this: "Whether it's warm hospitality or a specially imported virus, there's always something good waiting for me."

Matt and Jason went to a local butcher and picked up some yummy stuff to grill that night.  We then went to a local place for happy hour and enjoyed some new wines, grabbed the guys from school and enjoyed the evening -- along with opening one of our Italian wines we brought back from Tuscany a year ago.

On Saturday, we talked up heading to the pool, hoping for a more eventful time than in Dallas, but those hopes flew right on by as they (largely) refused to get in the water.  We only stayed an hour and in that time Tyler only had water up to his mid calf.  Zach did allow me to take him in the water but only after 40 minutes of me asking and telling him to look at all of the other kids already in the pool. 

Zach refused to walk around the pool and after multiple warnings, he had a time out in the corner for running. Yup, there I am .... and there he is.  Toddler parenting is awesome .... ugh!!

After nap, we headed into the city!  T&Z love the drive to the city with all of the buildings, seeing the metro trains along the highway, tunnels & bridges .... they are such boys!  We had fabulous pizza at Matchbox and then headed to the Mall to let them RUN out every last bit of energy before we headed home.  (Note to self:  We really need to go into the city more ... it isn't far and there is so much for T&Z to take in!!)

En route to dinner there were tons of festivals going on in the city.  One on the Mall looked like a large pumpkin, but upon further review, it was the .......

On Sunday, it was our annual volunteering at NOVA Brewfest!  Matt and I have been doing this since their first festival six years ago (when Jason came too)!  Our babysitter came and watched the boys all day and we enjoyed tasting, pouring and some more tasting.  It was HOT and most of us didn't apply enough sunscreen, oops! 

It was great to see Jason .... It's hard to believe I met him 15 years ago in Math 271 on my first week at Purdue.  Who would have thought back then, the girl in the front row & the guy towards the back being loud would make it to now!  And I love that Matt and him get along so well.  We are so lucky to have friends who fly in town to see us -- and T&Z .... See you again soon, Uncle Jason! 

Until next week, when hopefully the sun burn goes away and we are slightly more rested (fat chance)!