Fathers Day

Fathers Day was very nice and very relaxing. My wife was very crafty. She took a pot and decorated it with the kids hand prints along with a small tie that she made. She then filled it with my favorite candy (Reese's Peanut butter cups.) She also made one for my dad. She also made a Fathers Day card from a picture of our kids and she wrote a very sweet message on the back. Then for dinner we went over to my parents house. It was nice seeing my parents, brothers, sister in laws, and my Grandma and being able to visit. It was also nice to not have to do dishes after the meal. It was a very nice day and I am thankful that I can be a father. I am amazed by the overwhelming love that I have for my children. It is a love that is only possible to have for someone that you have been given the opportunity to love and care for. I am also amazed at the love they have for me and how they show it. It is always great to see them come rushing to the door with their arms open to give me a hug when I come home from work.

Fun Videos of the kids Playing

Truly these are more of the mommy/daddy variety of exciting.

Here is our son playing with his sippy friends, Buzz and Woody. Who needs dolls when you have sippy cups with such cool tops!


Here is our little girl singing one of her random made up songs.

Swim Lessons 2011

This is from the first two weeks of swim lessons this summer. I loved the teacher that worked with her here and the second two weeks. The last teacher she had swim lesson from I wasn't too impressed with. She loved being able to go to swim lessons and learn to be safe in the water. This was only the preschool levels so she didn't learn to swim yet. She was going to have lessons to start helping her learn to swim but she broke her arm and was in a cast so unfortunately she wasn't able to start that this year.



Three little monkey's dancing on the wall.....

So and so jumped in and splashed us all!


Soooo cold getting out of the water.

Doing better in her towel.

Real Soccer Game

My husband gets some free tickets every now and then to go to The Real Soccer Games. We usually invite a couple friends to go with us and find babysitters instead of taking the kids with us. But this time we decided it would be fun to try and take our kids with and have a fun family date. However I am not sure that we will do it again. Not because the kids were a problem. They were great in fact. It was a lot of fun to see them enjoy this experience with us. No it was because of fans. I have noticed occasional swearing and a few obscene gestures but it had been almost a year since the last time we went and I apparently forgot how bad it could get. To make matters worse there were a couple of young teenagers behind us that made it a goal to swear as many times as possible. I had to turn around and remind them that although it is possible that what they are saying might be true, it might be better to sound more educated and come up with more creative things than such obscene language. Although they didn't seem too happy about me calling them on their language luckily their mom didn't seem to bothered by me asking them to stop. But it was fine since they toned it WAY down which I appreciated. But even with them toning it down I was surprised by the cheers that I heard people cheering. I really don't remember cheers with swearing in them before so that was new and discouraging. When my daughter tried to cheer with them I had to quickly change words. So I am more than positive that professional sporting events are not at all a place for kids. We did have fun though and it will be their last for a while. Enjoy the pictures!

Before the game they have a lot of pregame things for kids and adults to enjoy. Totally might get the impression this could be a family event, right?



She didn't make it in the hole above but she did get a KFC bucket to wear as a hat for trying(Seen in the picture below).

Start of the game. How cute is the little mascot!



Feeding daddy some cotton candy.

She is just cute!

Loving the cotton candy!

See a picture with me. I was there. And my son not happy with not being allowed to go past mommy.

Trading hats. My daughter took daddy's hat and my son took her bucket.

Daddy with the bucket.

The drummers were sending off smoke signals.

And even Leo the Lion came and entertained right in front of us.

Summer Fun!

Had some fun with some friends that were nice enough to invite us over for a play date. They pulled out the pool and even offered some Otter pops to help cool the kids down. They had a lot of fun.

Day Out With Thomas

So one of our trips this year was that we went to see Thomas the Train. My son LOVES Thomas. He loves the movies, pajamas, clothes, toys, everything Thomas. So since the tickets are fairly cheap as far as the tickets go for riding the train. We decided that this would be a treat for him. My daughter likes Thomas as well but was not as nearly excited as he was.

We got up to where Thomas was and my son was asleep. But not for long. When I told him to look out the window to see Thomas he woke right up. This was his face for about 10 minutes as he watched us drive by and walk by Thomas. I would say that is a better expression than when he opened presents at Christmas.

The Diesels

The Steamies

Sir Topum Hat

The Story Telling Tent. This was a little bit of a let down since the story telling was just nonstop Thomas episodes. Fun but Story telling was a little far fetched.

All Aboard!!

Getting their picture taken with their favorite Train.

All smiles once the ride was over.

An activity tent with train sets, coloring, and mega blocks
We finished the day off at Dairy Keen the Home of the Train. They got train whistles in their kids meals. The theme of the whole place is trains.

They even had a little model train running of Thomas.

All in all it was a good day!

Blog List

Still following all the same blogs just being more anonymous about it. Still love them all and read them religiously just less open about it.