A Night Out With Friends

Tuesday night we went out on a double date with some of our very good friends Tad and Tami. Both of our anniversaries are this month, so we had a big night out to celebrate. Tad and Tami had bought tickets to go see CATS and asked us if we wanted to come with them so Andy called up the box office at Capitol Theater to buy tickets and the date was set. We had such a good time and are so glad that they invited us to share in the fun with them. We started out having dinner at an amazing place called Caffe Molise. It is authentic Italian food and was absolutely delicious. I would highly recomend it to anyone who was going out for a special occasion. They have an outdoor dining room and it was a beautiful night, so we decided to take advantage of it. After dinner, we were off to the theater to see the show. The cast did a wonderful job and we really enjoyed watching them. CATS is not one of my most favorite musicals, but I really enjoyed it and I was so excited that Andy finally got to see his first show at Capitol Theater. Hopefully there will be more to come. After the show we decided it was time to get home to our little one and to our beds since we all had to be up in the morning for work on Wednesday. We really had a good time and are so glad that we got to have a much needed date night especially since we were with such good company. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking such good care of Chloe while we went out to play for a little bit. You guys are the best!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

My Dad's birthday was this past saturday, September 13th. We took Chloe shopping for some presents that we could take out to the cemetary because I get tired of taking flowers out all of the time. Chloe found this little scarcrow and insisted that she needed to buy it for Papa's birthday. She was so excited on saturday morning to go to the cemetary and give her present to papa so we got up early and left for the cemetary with presents in tow. Once we were there Andy helped her put he little scarcrow in the ground so that it would stand up and she was beaming. I think that she was just so proud of herself that she picked out a present all by herself and delivered it with only a little help from her dad. We also bought a little rain guage that had these cute little garden gnomes. We don't really know what the point of that really was other than we thought it was really cute and we were running out of options. Before we left Walmart the night that we were looking for presents I took Chloe over to look at the toys and found a cool little '54 Chevy Bel Air toy car. When I was a little girl I used to buy my dad little toy cars for his birthday, Father's Day, Christmas or whenever I could think of a good reason to buy one. My dad really loved cars and he always wanted a '57 Chevy Bel Air, so I bought him the closest thing I could find.
My dad was an amazing person and he has been greatly missed by a lot of people these past three years. I really miss the advice that he used to give me whenever I had any life changing decisions to make, and right now we have several of those changes that need to be made and I wish that he could give me some advice now. He was always a great dad and did everything he could to take care of us, and I am sure that he will always be watching from the other side guiding us and protecting us.
Happy Birthday Daddy, I miss you so much and love you every day!!!