Father's Day

For Father's Day,

Dad Wanted to Go Boating;

Wish Granted

We Just Went Out

and Spent a RELAXING Evening

Chillin', Cruisin', and Groovin'

*

On Sunday Morning

Dad was Served Breakfast in Bed

with Sweet Drawings and Notes that Read:

"My Dad is Smart! He Even Knows Times Tables"

[8 yr. Old B]

and

"I Miss My Dad when He Goes to Work. I Wish He Would Stay Home. My Dad Loves to Play with Me. I Like it When he Plays Football with Me. I Love You"

[From 6yr. Old C]

We Tried to Give Dad the Royal Treatment

with Lots of His Favorites

and Notes and Posters Galore,

because We Wanted Him to Know that

The Dad at Our House

is Very

LOVED!

Conversation with 8 Yr. Old

[He had Earned Himself some Extra Chores Over the Weekend]

Me: Thanks for Getting Up and Doing Your Chores with a Good Attitude and No Complaining!

B: Well, I Did it for Two Reasons; 1) To Help You to Not be So Stressed and 2) Because You Could have taken My Friends away, but Instead, You just Gave Me Extra Chores

Me: Aw, Thanks. You Are Good Son. I Love You.

B: And You are a Good Mom. I Love You.

([Hugs])

What?
Did That just Happen at MY House?!
In REAL Life?!
Awesome.

Bear World, Pt. II

A Smattering of Pictures that Didn't Quite Make it in that there Post Below.

Vacation

We Went on a Lil' Weekend Trip to Idaho.
We Met While Going to School there,
and Wanted to Introduce the Kids to the Campus,
and All the Glorious Stories and Places of How their Parents
Met and Fell in Love!
We Spent Time Playing at Parks,
Swimming at the Hotel (lots of Time, there!)
and Riding Scooters around the Falls in Idaho Falls.

We Spent a Sunny Day Here

Seeing These Guys

Riding Rides,

and Doing This

And,

Unfortunately,

One of them Got Eaten,

and Had to Stay Behind

What?

They Said We Could Feed the Bears

Soccer. Done. FINALLY.

Memorial Day

We Went to a Veteran's Celebration of Sorts,

that was Rather Interesting and Touching

and We got to Check out the Army Helicopter.

Then We Got a Bundle of Flowers,

Divided it Among the Boys,

and Went to a Local Hot Spot-

Er, I Mean,

Cemetery.

We Don't Have Any Body Buried Locally,

So we Let the Boys Put Flowers on Graves,

that Don't Have Any Flowers.

They Like to Look for Babies and Veterans.

[Cleaning off Graves]

Then We Checked out Kung Fu Panda II.

Look Who Came With Me

On My Early Morning Run.

He was So Excited to Come with Me,

He Could Hardly Sleep.

He was a Bit Chilly,

and at the end,

Said it Wasn't Something He Was Really Interested

in Doing Again with Me.

I Kept Trying to Get Him to Tell Me How Awesome

He Thinks His Mom is,

but He Kept it All Inside.

Real Good.

Float-ees

We Live in a Community that Does Summer Parades Forwards and Backwards,

All Summer Long!

And with Parades, come FLOATS!

I'm Talking

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Floats Here,

Folks.

All Big

and

SPARKLY!

I've Always Wonder How They Make those Things,

and Now,

I've Had the Opportunity to Help With One!

Our Family Helped to make a Bug Family

and I've Been Able to Help with a Few Other Projects

Along the Way:

The First Volunteer Day I Went,

I was Given the Task of Designing a Variety of LEAVES

Shown Here, in Various Stages of Done-ness.

And?

I Was Quite Flattered when They Referred to Me as

Their "Leaf Hero"

and Did a Little Ditty on

the Parade Float Blog

[Aw. Shucks!]

It's Been So Fun

to Learn What Goes Into

Building a Float,

and

to be Coated in

GLITTER!

Muffins & Movies

Spent a Sunday Night

Munching Muffins

Lazing on Our Pillows,

and

Watching a Flick

[We've Decided to Make it our Newest Tradition]

A Rowdy Game

of Neighborhood Football

And I'm Pretty Certain

the One Who Had the BIGGEST Blast,

Was Much Older Than Eight.