Last Friday night, our next door neighbors had a campout in their backyard. We went over for a s'more on their fire pit. YUM!! And then began the action-packed Sunday through Wednesday! Sunday celebrated the arrival of Dave, Mindy, and Edwin to Canfield. All the Mueller crew came to have a picnic to visit. It just so happened to be a miserably hot and humid day. Aunt Mindy brought water balloons to play and I had squirt guns, a baby pool, and spray bottles. Madeline's highlight was driving people around in her car... it was like the never ending parade:) Even Edwin got a chance to ride! 
Monday's picnic reunited high school friends at our home. Justin/Gia Reed, Leanna/Dave Kemble , Karen Thomas, Cindy and Tyler Reed came over to hang out for dinner bringing their kidlets with them. We tried to get group shots of everyone to save the event, but you know how that goes! The kids really enjoyed playing with each other. 
Tuesday Judi Hanna and her grandchildren came for a lunch/playdate with Matt ,the girls, Dave, Mindy, and Edwin. I missed out on this event, some of us still had to work. HAHA! Apparently, Madeline was excited about playing with Caroline and was thrilled that their names both ended in "line". We ended the night with a fantastic dinner from Steamers. We had our whole corner dedicated to ourselves with the best waiter we have had in years!!
Wednesday, Matt had the honor of babysitting the girls and Edwin as Dave and Mindy traveled to Toronto. He eased his way through that event as Edwin slept a lot of the time :) Grandma came home from her class and relieved Matt from his duties ! Matt was nervous with Edwin's whole handful of chicken nuggets at once eating trick. Edwin was mad that Uncle Matt only gave him one bite at a time . Edwin had to deal since we are so choke-aphobic.
Thursday, Grandma was brave enough to invite Madeline and Meredith for a sleepover with Edwin. We took her up on the offer for what should have been a great night without kids! The sleepover went well, thank goodness. The girls love doing that sort of thing! Our dinner at Drake's Landing, however, is what soured the evening. We arrived to find a front row parking spot. Great!! Walk in to find no wait, Great!! Oh wait, there isn't any host either... Hmm. A girl shouts to the host, he takes our name and we wait for 5 minutes. This is quick. Very nice restaurant. I am impressed. Get to our booth, also nice. Then about 15 minutes elapse, still no waitress. A waiter notices that we are sitting there staring at anyone walking by and orders our drinks at the bar. A minute later a server brings 2 plates of ribs to our table. We look at her shaking our heads , NO!!, saying while tapping the menu , "we haven't even ordered yet!" 15 minutes later DUD (this is how we will refer to our waitress) arrives with our drinks. Hello!! Matt looks at me and says that we are doomed for the night. She says, "would you like to start out with some Ahi tuna bites for an appetizer?" We say 'yes'. She seems shocked, but she offered. 15 minutes later we are done with our drinks and still no bites. Haven't seen DUD at all. She said she'd go get the tuna. She returns with our drinks, no tuna. Wait some more, then DUD gets the tuna. Keeps threatening to bring a salad. Still nothing. Oh she has come back, with... bread?!? We want our salads you moron. So we push the bread aside to wait for the salad. 15 + minutes go by, and DUD gives Matt his salad and is handing me mine. I notice that our food has now arrived with the server. I put my hand up to DUD and said , "You can keep that!". Matt has hit his breaking point now. "You can have this pointless salad back! This has been terrible service since we walked in the door. ". They offer to box up the salad. Why? Forget it. The food was wonderful. No complaints there. So everyone runs away. Really? Finally a manager comes over. We told him everything that had happened. He takes 40% off. We are pissed. He asks, "is there anything else we can do for you? ". I say, "make sure our waitress comes back". Manager begins to laugh and says, "that's not funny!". WOW. Glad that evening was done.
Tomorrow is AMERICAN IDOL in PITTSBURGH!!!
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