A Happy Father's Day!

We had a nice Father's Day weekend with Daddy! On Friday we surprised him and took him to dinner at Braza Express. Adam loves Brazilian food just like his Daddy! Tessa loved the juice and rice.

 For several days the kids have been planning a breakfast in bed for Sunday morning. They were so excited to take it up to him! 

Tessa, Gwen, and Adam with their wonderful Daddy!

These girls adore their Daddy!

They call each other "Best Buds".

 He got some treats for his office.

 We made him a card with the kids hand prints. The card said, "You're the best Dad! Hands down!"

 Adam and Tessa wrote him some funny Father's Day letters.

 Bampa was still on his fun trip, so we spent the evening with Pa.

Ares, Tessa, Pa, Gwen and Adam

Andrew, Danny, Ben, Kevin, Dad, and Becky

(Katy was at Scout Camp, Matt is gone for a month for his Air Force training, and David is in Brazil)

 I am so blessed to have such a wonderful Father! He is truly one of the greatest men I know.

 Pa is always so good to play with the kids! They love attacking him. They had a fun water fight!

 These are the silly letters the kids wrote for their Dad. They had so much fun coming up with everything!

Star Wars Marathon

On Saturday we started a new family tradition and had a Star Wars marathon! We were going to start first thing in the morning and go all day, but we decided to scratch that idea and just watch the 3 classics. We got the kids some Darth Vader masks and I made them lightsabers. 

Adam, Tessa, and Ares

 Even Gwen got in on the action!

 We made a party of it and made lots of Star Wars themed food for the afternoon and evening.

 We had Ewok Food

 Padawan Popcorn

 Thermal Detonators

 Wookie Cookies

 Vader Veggies and Degobah Dip

 Princess Leia Cupcakes

 Adam eating some Thermal Detonators

 Ares, Tessa and Adam

 Yoda Soda

 We even froze Han Solo in Jell-O carbonite

 Boba Fruit

 Han burgers and Jar Jar links

It was a fun day! Fun to hang out with family, eat fun food, and watch some classic movies!

More Summer Fun

We have had another busy week. Last Sunday, Adam finished his first 500 piece puzzle! He worked on it for about an hour everyday for about 5 days. He did most of it himself and was very proud when he finished it!

 We played milk carton catch. The kids made "catchers" out of milk cartons, and then spent some time outside playing catch with them.

 Wednesday we had lots of cousins over to play! For a quiet afternoon activity after everyone left, we experimented with invisible ink.

 Thursday was Flag Day, so we had some Flag Day fun! We made red, white, and blue pancakes for breakfast.

 We learned all about Betsy Ross and our flag and Adam taught Tessa how to say  the Pledge of Allegiance.

 We made a flag pizza for lunch and colored flag pictures.

 Thursday night we had Eric's work barbecue. The kids had a blast getting their faces painted, playing on the bounce houses, shooting their rockets and eating lots of yummy food!

 On Friday we made sidewalk paint, but ran out of cornstarch, so we didn't get to paint as much as we would have liked. We plan to do that more this next week. Tessa painted a sun and Adam painted a stadium.