Monday, July 4, 2016

DAD

The year after Elliott was born (2012) I saw a cute idea on Pinterest and decided to modify it a bit and then do it that year and ALLLLLLLLL the years for Michael for Father's Day.

The first year I gave him pictures and a frame to put them in.  Every year since he just gets the pictures.  It's marvelous.

2016




And now it's time to flashback.

2012




2013




2014




2015




I can no longer get all the years in one collage, so here's two collages stacked on top of each other.
In 2014 I saw a new idea about taking a picture with what your kid loves that year and making a collage with those pictures and the words "I love you more than".

2016

Elliott with chocolate chip pancakes.

Spencer with the Wii-U


2014 was milk and Star Wars

2015 was Dillard's and Mario.

I'm already looking forward to 2017.  What will they love? 

Friday, July 1, 2016

Father's Day

Every year Father's Day falls about thee weeks after Michael's birthday.  Every year I am annoyed that I have to figure out what to buy him and how to celebrate him for Father's Day so soon after buying him gifts and celebrating him for his birthday.  And then every year I feel bad about being annoyed because the truth is that we should buy him gifts and celebrate him much more often than just twice a year.  This year, Father's Day had the added stress of coming right after we returned from Florida but I think we rallied and pulled off a pretty good day.

After a SOLID week of good eating after our trip I said what the hell, and had donuts for breakfast.  I had a no sugar coffee though, so there's that.


Time for presents


Spencer had made some stuff in class and had it hidden in his room for the last month.


The yearly DAD pictures, which will have their own post soon.

Chocolate

Elliott's class project

And new shoes
Fast forward a few hours and Michael's parents drove up from Tucson to join us and we took some pictures before going to lunch.







Our sillies came out blurry, but they were just silly so it didn't really matter.

We went to Cheddar's for lunch.  Michael's mom decided to order 10,000 calories for the table to share for dessert.

Papa was sad because he was on week #2 of healthy eating. 
We came home after lunch and found Ginger asleep on the back of the couch with her head resting in the shutters. 
Ginger is losing her hearing due to her advancing age so she no longer hears us come home.  I think she's always done this we just never knew it because she would jump down and come running when she heard the garage door.

And no Father's Day would be complete without some father/son video games.