Any Similar Revival

Jordan is probably my favorite photo shoot model.  He lets me drag him all over the world, stands on railroad tracks, on top of big rocks, lays down in big piles of leaves. . .he’s the best.  And he’s so cute, too!  These are the latest:

Ever since the beginning of spring, I have looked for three things on my walks at my favorite trail:  ducklings, goslings, and herons.  Until today, I had seen exactly zero duckies and goosies, and I only caught the heron as it was trying to fly away from me.  🙁  Today, however, everything just worked out as beautifully as it could and I saw ALL THREE.  And I had my camera!!  It really doesn’t take much to completely thrill me:

Many of you read Kim of Hiraeth’s blog, so you know that her eldest son John was getting married.  Yesterday, Chad and I had the privilege to be there when he and Beth said their vows. 

John is on the right.  His brother Jake is the Beatle-esque one.  🙂

Beautiful Beth!

Sam, the youngest brother

When the sun came out this morning, I got a little giddy.  After all, I haven’t seen it in a week! So I decided to go exploring, and where I ended up was Brandywine Falls in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.  So beautiful, but alas, I couldn’t finish the trail because the stepping stones were under torrential waters.  Fun!

Heidi and I took Granny Annie to Smithville today to shop at the Oak Cupboard.  On the way back, Heidi started making interested noises at the temporary greenhouse downtown on 585.  So we stopped, Of Course.

Me and my beautiful Mum:

This week, Chad earned a really cool incentive at work:  dinner at the Terrace Club before the Indians baseball game last night.  We sat with two of this co-workers, had the buffet and dessert, and the bill for our table was $425!!  Crazy!  The dessert was really good–Chad got tiramisu and I got this chocolate ganache torte that I’m still excited about.  Too bad the Indians lost, but it was still a great experience.

Yesterday was Jordan’s twentieth birthday!  I remember being "too sick" to go to school the day he was born.  My mom and grandma and I sat in the Freeze, an old diner type place, and talked about how much fun it was going to be to have a baby around.  When we got the call that Jordan had arrived and that Heidi was ok, my grandma cried.  It was the first time I’d ever seen that, and it really made a big impact.  I love Jordan–he is more my little brother than my cousin, and he’s one of my all-time favorite people.  So we spent the day crawling on rocks out at Virginia Kendall.  Well, Chad and Jordan, mostly.  I stood there and said things like, "I really think that it’s too dangerous.  That looks slippery, are you sure that’s a good idea. You are not jumping that, Chad! Oh, wait, don’t I get double the insurance if you die in an accident?"

I love the AAUW book sale!  You should have seen me, books in my arms up to my chin, walking carefully to the checkout.  I had to leave four of them there because I ran out of cash, and SOMEBODY used the last check in the checkbook and didn’t replace them.  Hmmm, now who could that have been?  But they put my name on them and I’m going back to get them later.  Now I know some of you are looking at these books thinking, "why is she going to read that?"  Because it’s summer.  That’s why.