Cinnamon Roll!

Mom and Dad just wrapped up their two-week visit with us and Friday night we took them to Farmhouse Cafe & Bakery here in Omaha for dinner. One of the specialties of Farmhouse is their cinnamon rolls, which are indeed awesome. Mom LOVES cinnamon rolls, so we wanted her to experience at least a portion of one before she went home.

Katy and I love these cinnamon rolls, too, and so does Zac, though that night I had the Oreo Cheesecake. Dad settled on the Key Lime Pie. All in all, great dinner and great dessert and a nice finishing dinner to a fun two weeks with my parents. :)

Fun With Grandma & Grandpa

Zac is really enjoying having his Grandma and Grandpa here with us.

Mom and Dad joined us last Saturday, the 10th, and have another week of vacation with us before they have to return to Custer.

Today I'm sharing a few pics of Zac with both, plus a video of him riding his grandpa like a horse. :)

Zac Eats

Anyone with a toddler understands the "beauty" in watching your child eat. Zac does very well with eating , despite his odd tendency to be picky about meats and things he's had too much before. The first pic today was captured by Katy the other night after supper.

Zac's absolute favorite thing to eat at present is a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Or, put it on anything and he'll eat it. We were out of bread the other night, so I made him a tortilla roll with this inside. Here you see the results of that little experiment.

The other pics today come from his stay with Nana & Puddin' Friday night.

As Katy and I left fairly early Saturday to pick up my mom and dad in Ogallala, which is about 4 1/2 hours west of Omaha, Zac stayed with his Nana & Puddin'. They picked their first squash of the season which he is holding in one picture.

He loved the fried squash and also enjoyed his corn, as you see from the other pictures. At least these veggies (and he loves most veggies) are much cleaner than what I fed him! :)

A July 4th Haze

Thought I'd try to get a video up right away tonight now that we're home from our July 4th festivities. After a day full of rain which did not end until well into the afternoon, we ended up with a beautiful evening for grilling and fireworks. Zac took a few moments to enjoy the trampoline at his cousins' house and had a very good time. This video is that event and, though it says it's 1:58 in time, the converter I use duplicated the second half. It's really a minute of actual video, then 58 seconds of the same video without sound. Overall tonight, we had good food and good company and good haze. What's that you say? Good haze?

Well, the heavy rains all day turned to a very still evening with temps in the low 70s. While that sounds perfect, what we really had was a sticky, no-wind environment which, when everyone began lighting off fireworks, resulted in a huge haze. This was the thickest we've seen it in the past several years, but it didn't take away from out enjoyment of it! While Zac was fairly tired by the time fireworks began going off, he did enjoy them and sat in the chair for a good deal of time watching with his cousins.