The Dad Life - Youtube

My friend Sadie had this posted on her blog and I thought it was hilarious so I had to share it too!

Weekend with the Hansens and Melbys

2 weeks ago, my parents, my sister, Tabbi, and her boys, Tre and Tru were up for a weekend visit. We had a great time with them here! Grandpa and Jon spoiled Emmy by getting her a loft bed built. That is one happy girl! She is so delighted to have her own loft bed! Thanks so much Dad and Jon!

We kept busy with a family game of kickball followed by Dairy Queen for all, lots of bike riding, scooter riding and roller blading, a trip to a park, some shopping at Old Navy, movie watching, playing, I got to have lunch with mom, kids making door stickers and making bleached tshirts. Everyone had a great time together and I am so glad you all could make it up to spend a weekend with us! It was much needed by me!

Here are some overdue pictures from that weekend....

Dads

I'm so behind again on blogging, but I do have valid reasons... a long week full of heartache for friends.

But today I just want to celebrate the wonderful men in my life! First to my hubby..... YOU are an amazing father! Our girls are so so very blessed to have you as a dad. They adore you and love when you spend time with them and play with them. Thank you for always being there - all the time - no matter what. I can't imagine my life without you!

To my dad - I am a very lucky girl. I love you, Dad, so very very much. You still make me feel like your little girl and I am so very glad that my girls get to have you for a grandpa.

To Jon's dad - we are so blessed to have you in our life! I know this week has been a rough one but hope that you will recover fully from surgery and can get feeling better quickly!

Happy Father's Day!

Weekend with Serena

Last weekend Serena flew in from Baltimore to spend the weekend with us. Well, with her nieces mostly, but us too! She and the girls had Friday all to themselves. They went to the library, lunch at McDonald's, shopping and photo booth at the mall, movie Marmaduke, followed by more shopping. They had a good time! Jon, Serena and I spent time each evening watching Chuck, Season 2, because Serena hadn't seen it yet. . . . that's a lot of Chuck to squeeze in to 5 nights! We finished up about midnight on Monday night!

Saturday we all drove down to Watertown, SD, 3 hours away to meet up with Jon's parents, his sister Serena, his Grandma Mead and Uncle Dan (who was visiting from Michigan). We had brunch at IHop, visited the Redlin Museum for a little bit and then went to the Bramble Park Zoo once it quit raining. Followed up with dinner at Long John Silver's and driving back home.

Sunday we went to a Girl Scout picnic in the afternoon and kind of hung out the rest of the day. Serena took us all out for dinner at Space Aliens that night. Monday Jon and I both had the day off so we showed Serena around GF & EGF, Jon's office, Widman's Chocolate store, etc. The girls were invited to go swimming with a friend, so they did that in the afternoon while Jon, Serena and I watched more of Chuck and had Dairy Queen.

It was fun for Serena to have some time with the girls, do some spoiling and bonding and just relax.

This weekend my family is headed up and the girls are excited to play with their cousins!

Pretending the steering wheel is enough.

Pretending the steering wheel is enough.

Another fabulous read from Stuff Christians Like blog.... gotta read!

Mirror Craft Project

Ok... friends and family and daycare..... This is a craft I plan on doing with the girls sometime soon. Just thought I'd share it because it looks like fun and I'm probably not the only parent whose kids collect all kinds of little odds and ends.

Mirror Mosaic is what the craft is called and I found it at www.Familyfun.com

Enjoy!

Busy Kids

Just a few new pictures of the kids keeping busy... playing outside, drawing, being silly...

Keeping Busy

All the sunshine and the change of routine around here has left me too busy to be blogging again. The girls are loving the fact that school is out and I think we're settling into the June routine around here for daycare. June daycare looks a little something like this:
Bria has a sports class at school from 8-10
Emma and Alexander enjoy school from 8-12.
Emmy and Talasia and Ethan hang out around here for the morning.
Next week Bria has golf 1 morning a week from 10-11.
Afternoons include a later than usual lunch and then rest time for everyone. After that we spend as much time outside as is possible! Hopefully the school will have gotten all the grafiti cleaned up at the playground today so we can go back there for the end of the day.
Next Wednesday will be our first chance to go swimming with the daycare crew. The pool opens today, but a high of 70 is still a bit too chilly for the swimming pool! I know the kids are all excited about getting in the water and hopefully it will be warm enough next week to do that.

We will have an extra person around the house for a few days as well.... Aunt Serena is coming to visit Thursday - Tuesday! So I am closed on Monday and we are looking forward to spending some time with her for a few days.

We got 2 summer projects done this weekend - tearing up some yard and re-sodding as well as cleaning carpets upstairs and downstairs. Next project: painting all the trim inside, painting the garage door and putting up new valances. Those we'll get to later in June.

That's about all for now..... daycare kids should be here soon for lunch.... naptime for Ethan soon.... rest time for everyone else after lunch.... and hopefully playing outside the rest of the afternoon.

Oh it's good to have summer here! I'll try to post some recent pictures later on this week!