It was a beautiful fall day on Saturday! The sun was shining and there was just a touch of fall in the air. Our new alarm clock (aka. Lukie) woke us up at our daily waking hour of ~7:30am. He has thought this was the perfect time to get up for the day for about 10 months now. Needless to say we had a time getting adjusted to this new schedule (especially Jeremy who is a crazy night owl and likes to sleep in), but all is well now- Luke has us TRAINED as much as we like to think that we have HIM trained. As you can see, Jeremy looks quite chipper to be up and out of the house by 9:30am on a Saturday. We decided to walk the mile to Lyndhurst Castle to the craft fair on the aqueduct walking trail. It is very woodsy and was actually pretty sparse this morning (but that could have been that normal people were sleeping in on Saturday- Haha). Anyway, the walk was gorgeous. Whenever we walk on the aqueduct, it always makes me think of camp. On our way home, we even passed Meredith Vieira on her Saturday walk (she lives in Irvington and we see her out and about in our little town every so often). Anyway, I digress, ....on to the craft fair.....
They have this craft fair two times and year- in the fall and in the spring- and I love it because I can usually find all kinds of fun Birthday and Christmas gifts. However, this year there weren't any MUST HAVES, so that was a kind of bummer, but we still found a few items for us (mostly food). They have the WORLD'S BEST kettle corn at the craft fair, so I always buy the biggest bag and have it eaten in like two days. We also bought some homemade salsa and fudge. Yum!
Why is it that toddlers go the exact OPPOSITE way that you want them to go???
Why is it that BOYS will find even the smallest patch of DIRT to dig around in???
Our only purchase besides food: a wooden cheese board! Now, I know you are asking, why a wooden cheese board for heavens sake? Well, there are actually a few reasons.... 1.Jeremy and I will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary (I know it really is hard to believe- time goes so quickly!) in just a couple of weeks and the "traditional" anniversary gift is wood, so I have been on the look out for a unique wooden gift. 2. This cheese board is made from a Maple tree, which is the same type of wood that Luke's tree (see older blog post) is made of. 3. If you look closely at the grain of the wood you can see some dark "spots" on it and this is actually made from a little beetle that walks up and down the tree in the sap and leaves these little markings in the wood (I just thought that was cool). 4. It is in the shape of a guitar and since Jeremy plays, I thought it was the PERFECT anniversary gift. After talking to the artist and telling her that we were buying this for our 5th anniversary, she gave us both a huge hug and then gave us the wooden cheese knife (which sounds like it wouldn't work, but it actually works really well) for FREE (it is normally $13)! She wanted to give us an early anniversary gift. She was so sweet.
Whew! This was a long post....thanks for reading!
4 comments:
LOVE the cheese board! very cool.
Your new alarm clock woke us up Saturday morning too:) It's a bummer the craft fair didn't have more must haves- but the cheese boad is cool!!!!
P.s. the picture of Luke running away from you totally looks like you should be on a football field and like he dodged you at the last second to get a home run;) Love it!
p.s. I blame my pregnancy brain on my first comment - CLEARLY I meant touchdown... I don't know what I was thinking!
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