Twinsburg or Bust

La, Aunt M, Bro and I drove to Cleveland (Twinsburg, specifically) for the weekend. Our mission: Visit with family, have fun, drink wine, laugh a lot, oh ... and get Bro castrated. Poor Bro. I thought I would have to deal with a pathetic, whimpering pup for days after the procedure, but much to my surprise, he didn't even know anything was missing in that region (which only strengthens my theory regarding his manliness). He just went right on with his little weenie life. Such a champ. That-a-girl Bro! After the positive outcome of the neutering, I knew the weekend was only going to get better. 

And it did ...

Friday night, we went to Lolita in Tremont with our friend Marci and her mom Georgeann ... It's a little tradition we have. Very fun.

Here we are at my parent's house right before our night on the town. This photo was taken by my charming father, immediately after he told the pregnant one to shut up so he could take the picture. 

Yes, really. 

The evening was special because us girls never get together like this. Our moms were hilarous and the wine was delicious. 

La spent 2 days at Blossom Time in Chagrin Falls with her Daddy, Grandma Dale and Aunt Ashley, which she was very excited about. 

When I picked her up on Saturday evening, I took her straight over to Des, Alyssa and Diego's place. She got to "crack out" (La's term for laughing really hard) with one of her best buddies that night.

And baby "D" did a very fine job of looking cute. 

On Sunday, La hung out with (read: annoyed the living crap out of) her future husband who is also Marci's son, Anthony. She chased him around the courtyard of our favorite greasy Mexican joint a few times yelling "Ant-o-nee! Ant-o-nee!" and you could just see the annoyance in his eyes. But he put up with her, so that's good.

 

Here she is later that evening, following him around, asking him girly questions ("Ant-o-nee, what is your favorite princess? Is it Cinderella? Or is it Belle? Mine is Cinderella. What's yours? What's yours?") while he blatantly ignores her. 

So stinking cute, those two.

Sunday night, Aunt M and I went to Gamekeeper's with our buddies Meagan and Mark and happened to run into one of M's old beaus, Pete and also Ryan (La's dad). It was an interesting evening to say the least, but also a very good time.