Father's Day Weekend

We went home to visit over Father's Day weekend. We were only there about 26 hours, but we had a lot of fun!

We went to church with Pop & Grammy Sunday morning, and then came back to their house to play. We took a lot of pictures that all turned out a little like this:

Then we tried to get a picture with Pop and this is as good as it gets!

Jack & Anna fought over who got to "walk" Sam, and then we went to Granny & Grandy's house.

Daddy played in the princess tent for a long time and read lots of books with his oldest two.

Then we played outside while Sam napped.

Dueling bigwheels!

After lunch, Anna gave Grandy lots of stickers "for being good."

And there was more playing outside. I think he needs to work on his for a little!

We enjoyed popsicles - mmm!

After dinner, we had baths and then picture time with Grandy for Father's Day.

We made a quick stop at Pop & Grammy's to watch the trains go by from the porch before heading back home.

It was a quick trip, but we enjoyed spending Father's Day with some of the best father's I know!

Happy Father's Day . . .

to the BEST Daddy ever!!!

We love you even though we won't pose nicely for pictures with you!

Love,
Jack, Anna, & Sam

Fireworks

We decided to finally take the horrendous brass faceplate off our fireplace last weekend. Marshall was examining how nasty it was on the inside and his "helpers" all gave him tips on how to clean the "fireworks." For some reason, Jack keeps calling it the fireworks instead of fireplace! Notice the two big kids have their flashlights handy to help out Daddy!

Daddy and Jack got a little silly with the soot later that day.

Not sure if this is his tough guy face or if he's getting ready to plant a sloppy kiss on someone!

Fighting the Heat with Fashion

Since it's chilled down to 90 degrees today, Anna felt the need to wear this shirt in honor of our cooler weather. At least she paired it with shorts and flops!

Photo Shoot Bloopers

We attempted our annual photo shoot on the beach again this year. We didn't get a single "keeper." But we did get lots of bloopers, with an occasional cute one thrown in here and there - just not one that included all of us!

We started out trying to get a good one with the grandparents first because we usually attempt theirs at the end when the kids are melting down. Jack decided to melt down from the first second - it was just lovely.

Hmmm. No comment.

This is probably the "best" one of our faces - seriously.

I have no idea what Jack is doing here!

I think I was just trying to get the hair out of my face, but that's probably a pretty good picture of how I was really feeling.

Look at Sam!

What does it say about us when the best picture is of our backsides?
(and blurry)

Enough!

We finally declared our photo shoot a bust and pulled out the kite.

Our faithful photographers.

The End.