{"id":2255,"date":"2012-03-12T07:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2012-03-12T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:58:59","slug":"a-visit-with-friends-pt-1-the-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"A Visit With Friends (Pt. 1: The Kites)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past weekend we were lucky to have some really good, close, old friends stay with us on their way back to Chicago from a trip. Cat and Garriy<\/a> have known Milo since he was just a young biscuit, and they are like family to us (Milo even calls Garriy “Uncle Garriy”!). Andrew went to grad school with Garriy and we met Cat soon after. It was wonderful having them close by when we lived in DC, but over the years we have all moved around quite a bit. But they always find time to visit us, no matter how chaotic it has become with all the littles we have been popping out these days! And I have no doubt that someday they will make amazing parents.\u00a0\"DSC_0017\"The first night it was cool enough to build a fire, so that we did (probably the last of the season!). After eating dinner and putting the kids down for bed, we made the most of adult time before crashing at… 9:30pm. Yes, we are living the lives of rockstars. Don’t hate.<\/p>\n

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The next morning we were joined by more friends (Amy and Jarod- who go all the way back to our undergraduate years!!!) who had caught the Radiohead concert in town the previous night. I made these<\/a> sticky buns and they turned out amazing- highly recommend. We chatted over coffee and laughed a lot before they had to hit the road to get back to their little ones in Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Then we were off on a little road trip ourselves (albeit a 10-minute one)!\"DSC_0021\"<\/p>\n

Yay for the minivan! We comfortably fit 4 adults and 3 kids in here. Woo!<\/em><\/p>\n

Where might we head on such a sunny lovely March day, you ask? Why, Forest Park of course. To fly the lovely owl kites Cat and Garriy so generously gave our young budding adventurers.\"DSC_0030\"<\/p>\n

How many PhD’s does it take to put together two kites?<\/em><\/p>\n

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More than you might think, it turns out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once assembled, the hilarity ensued. Seriously, watching grown-ups running, jumping, weaving, darting, and trying to prevent plastic owls from dive-bombing the hillside is just so much funnier than expected. Only Cat made it look graceful. We had a fantastic time. And Milo was beaming ear-to-ear the entire time. Oliver, not so much, but Cat saved the day with an emergency snack run to the Art Museum gift shop. Thanks Cat!\"DSC_0037\"\"DSC_0038\"\"DSC_0040\"\"DSC_0045\"\"DSC_0052\"\"DSC_0059\"\"DSC_0062\"\"DSC_0063\"\"DSC_0067\"\"DSC_0071\"\"DSC_0075\"\"DSC_0080\"\"DSC_0105\"\"DSC_0083\"\"DSC_0100\"\"DSC_0081\"\"DSC_0087\"\"DSC_0091\"<\/p>\n

We had a lovely day despite Oliver getting over a little of what Milo had last week and Emil feeling a little bit rotten trying to push that mean old first tooth through his bottom gums. And of course I took a billion pictures, so check back tomorrow for more of our weekend adventures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend we were lucky to have some really good, close, old friends stay with us on their way back to Chicago from a trip. Cat and Garriy have known Milo since he was just a young biscuit, and they are like family to us (Milo even calls Garriy “Uncle Garriy”!). Andrew went to … Continue reading “A Visit With Friends (Pt. 1: The Kites)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[74,58,88],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-adventures","tag-friends","tag-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}