Chocolate? or Peanut Butter? or BOTH?
Jon & I just had the most amazing milkshake of all time - it must have been enough calorie intake to get me through a long winter! Our new secret discovery is Lois - milkshake extraordinaire at the Trenton UDF. 
We got a peanut butter 'n chip milkshake, one of our favs, but Lois added several globs of both peanut butter and chocolate syrup to the cup as she mixed our shake to perfection. Oh, this one's gonna cost me! Lois is my new hero - we'll definitely be back to visit her often!
We just returned from another wedding marathon weekend in Dayton. We started off the day at "The Envelope" making the final wording decisions on our invitations. The paper came in this past week and looks beautiful! Jon watched in amazement as we (the shop owner and myself) labored over every word on the invitations until it sounded just perfect. I'm excited to see the final product! Then, we went to Stafford Jewelers and purchased our wedding bands. This new jeweler just opened a few months ago and they have their own coffee/juice bar in the store! First our church, now the jewelers - I'm liking this new full-service America deal! Next we picked out all the tuxes for the gentlemen. Third time's a charm on that one!
Finally, we drove to the far north side of Dayton to meet with a Mennonite woman who is baking our wedding cake. This is an interesting story in itself. Last spring we went to Jon's friends' (Brad & Emily) wedding and just thought their wedding cake was amazing (among many other things!). So, when it came time to decide on the cake Jon asked Brad who did theirs. Brad passed the name of this woman along to us and we met with her briefly at the bridal show a few weeks ago. She was there in full Mennonite attire, bonnet and all. Well, I grew up surrounded by lots of Amish families at Indian Lake, so I had a preconceived notion that Mennonite was similar to Amish but less "strict." So, when we drive up to her house yesterday to meet her again, we were expecting a modest farm house out in the country - maybe a butter churn in the kitchen. You get the idea. Well, we pull up at the house and it is one of the biggest, most beautiful houses I've seen in the Dayton area. I mean, this place had sprawling acreage, beautiful landscaping, architectural detail, and was modern as can be. No sign of a horse and buggy here! We didn't see a plasma screen TV, but I wouldn't doubt if it was there! Not at all what we were expecting! Anyway, we're definitely looking forward to eating her cake again in a few months. By the way, we're boycotting the "white wedding cake" idea - this one's gonna be chocolate, baby! Yum!!
Our last wedding appointment was this morning - we met with the pianist at my church and picked out our ceremony music. Since neither of us is supremely musically inclined, we left a lot of that up to the judgement to the pianist (perhaps with a few special surprises for our guests!). :)
We got a peanut butter 'n chip milkshake, one of our favs, but Lois added several globs of both peanut butter and chocolate syrup to the cup as she mixed our shake to perfection. Oh, this one's gonna cost me! Lois is my new hero - we'll definitely be back to visit her often! We just returned from another wedding marathon weekend in Dayton. We started off the day at "The Envelope" making the final wording decisions on our invitations. The paper came in this past week and looks beautiful! Jon watched in amazement as we (the shop owner and myself) labored over every word on the invitations until it sounded just perfect. I'm excited to see the final product! Then, we went to Stafford Jewelers and purchased our wedding bands. This new jeweler just opened a few months ago and they have their own coffee/juice bar in the store! First our church, now the jewelers - I'm liking this new full-service America deal! Next we picked out all the tuxes for the gentlemen. Third time's a charm on that one!
Finally, we drove to the far north side of Dayton to meet with a Mennonite woman who is baking our wedding cake. This is an interesting story in itself. Last spring we went to Jon's friends' (Brad & Emily) wedding and just thought their wedding cake was amazing (among many other things!). So, when it came time to decide on the cake Jon asked Brad who did theirs. Brad passed the name of this woman along to us and we met with her briefly at the bridal show a few weeks ago. She was there in full Mennonite attire, bonnet and all. Well, I grew up surrounded by lots of Amish families at Indian Lake, so I had a preconceived notion that Mennonite was similar to Amish but less "strict." So, when we drive up to her house yesterday to meet her again, we were expecting a modest farm house out in the country - maybe a butter churn in the kitchen. You get the idea. Well, we pull up at the house and it is one of the biggest, most beautiful houses I've seen in the Dayton area. I mean, this place had sprawling acreage, beautiful landscaping, architectural detail, and was modern as can be. No sign of a horse and buggy here! We didn't see a plasma screen TV, but I wouldn't doubt if it was there! Not at all what we were expecting! Anyway, we're definitely looking forward to eating her cake again in a few months. By the way, we're boycotting the "white wedding cake" idea - this one's gonna be chocolate, baby! Yum!!
Our last wedding appointment was this morning - we met with the pianist at my church and picked out our ceremony music. Since neither of us is supremely musically inclined, we left a lot of that up to the judgement to the pianist (perhaps with a few special surprises for our guests!). :)
posted by Julie at 4:16 PM
2 Comments:
Chocolate!!
I am Jon's mom and I think I remember what the milkshake was like--chocolate peanut butter and chip so whatever, I think I would like to try one of those. Is the chip just the flavor of chips or what?
What is the building that Jonathan is standing next to: it says Strafford? I do love chocolate milkshakes, though, like the ones we used to make years ago, when i was working at a skating rink, three scoops of ice cream, real milk and chocolate or vanilla syrup, then blend them and they were delicious, and about 80 cents, I think, or maybe a dollar. .dnand they were really good, too. then the were the banana splits for 25 cents that they sold at the "Tip Top," which is "long gone", three scoops of ice cream--different flavors on top of a split banana, smothered in chocolate and strawberry syrup--was that ever delicious, but i bet Lois does make a "mean milkshake." Can't wait to try one!
Love,
Jon's mom
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