Weekend Trip

I found out on Tuesday that a friend of mine had lost her father and I would need to go to the visitation on Thursday.  The visitation and funeral were in Atlanta.  I went on over Thursday after lunch and Matt and the boys came late Thursday night.  Since we were going to be over there anyway, we decided to make the most of the weekend.  I wanted to do a little shopping and Matt wanted to eat at Cheesecake Factory, so we did that Friday night.  We were able to sit outside at dinner and Cal LOVED his Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake.  Matt and I had Pumpkin Cheesecake, which was delious too!  Brady was tired and just ready to go home by the time we got to the cheesecake.

The fountain that was by our table at dinner where all the change from my purse is :)

We decided to just go with the flow on Saturday.  We went to see my grandmother (she is in an assisted living facility) first.  Her birthday was on the 2nd, so we took her some flowers. 

Cal and Brady with "Dot Dot"

Tried to get a photo opp. on the way out of the assisted living.......

As you can see Brady was not interested!

We were going to grill out with our friends about 5:30, so we decided not to try to do the zoo.  We went to Chipotle Grill for lunch.  We do not have these in Montgomery, but had seen a special on them on Food Network one night.  They use all natural meat/produce.  Who knew that it would be Cal who found it to be yummy!  Cal has just recently realized he likes the rice at his favorite Mexican restaurant.  Well, Chipotle has a white rice with lime juice and cilantro.  Matt had to go order more.  The nacho chips come in this little brown bag and they found that really fun too.We loved the steak (me) and pork (Matt), but the chicken was way too spicey for the boys to eat. 

After our yummy lunch we headed to Whole Foods :)

Matt and I LOVE Whole Foods, but have to drive to Birmingham or Atlanta to go to one.  We normally stock up on meat every time we go to Atlanta.  This time we started out with a nice bag of apples then headed for a little sweet treat.  Cal picked out several pieces of chocolate, Brady picked a watermelon popcicle and Matt and I shared some mocha gelato.  We ended up with several types of meat and a jar of spaghetti sauce that Matt had heard about.

After Whole Foods the boys convinced us/reminded us that we go to Target every time we go to Grammy's! They are right, mom would take them to Target every time they came to visit.  We let Cal pick out a gift that mom would have bought him for his birthday.  He picked out a Lego set, but it will be wrapped and opened on his birthday.   We headed home for a quick rest before it was time to leave for dinner.  The weather was perfect and we grilled hamburgers.  We sat and visited until around 10:00 (Cal came and asked when we were leaving because he was ready to go to sleep)...Oops!  Thank goodness I had brought their p.j.'s because Brady was asleep before we even got out of the neighborhood. 

We headed home Sunday afternoon to a crazy week.  Brady was out of school yesterday for Columbus Day, but Cal had school.  Friday Cal is out of school for teacher conferences, but Brady has school.  I plan to spend Friday with Cal making his "Star" poster.  Next week he is the "star" of the week.  He has to bring a poster covered with pictures on Monday.  All the kids in the class will make him a special book where they each write something nice about the "star".  He will take something special each day to share.  He will take birthday snack on Tuesday and I will go read to his class on Wednesday.  Then we are having his birthday party after school next Friday.