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Father’s Day and 50 years

We spent Father’s Day at my parents’ house this year.  The weather was beautiful!  We played in the backyard, which the kids loved.  Bocce ball, hula hoops, wiffle ball, oh and of course, “water squirters!”  Good times.

After dinner, we headed to Jake’s grandparents’ 50th anniversary party.  50 years!  What an awesome event to celebrate!  Jake had taken some of their wedding slides and scanned them, so those at the party were able to “relive” the original celebration along with Lois & Dale.  (Photos taken by Jake’s cousin, Beth.)

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Picnic with Nana

Nolan has Vacation Bible School this week.  He has had a lot of fun!  Instead of just going home afterward, today we met Nana (my mom) at the “purple park” and had a picnic lunch.  This is one of the boys’ favorite parks.  They love the sand, the swings, the purple dinosaur, and of course, the digger.

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Dinner with Michelle & Alex

Our friend, Michelle and her youngest brother, Alex, came over for dinner tonight.  Michelle is so good about letting us know when Alex is visiting – we always enjoy seeing him and the boys have a lot of fun with him!  (I think he has fun with them as well :))  After a tasty enchilada dinner, we had cake for dessert (decorated with sprinkles by the boys.)  Then we spent a little time in the living room being entertained by the 3 youngest of the group.  The boys brought in props and Alex read to us.  Thanks for humoring us and the boys, Alex!

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Rice Krispie Bars

One of my kitchen helpers lended a hand this afternoon and we put together a double batch of Rice Krispie bars.  Being pregnant means I’ve been pulling out all of my favorite treatsie foods.  I just have to make sure not to have them all on hand at once.

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The party

We celebrated Nolan’s birthday (with extended family & friends) a week later than his actual birthday.  His request was to have a balloon pit, similar to the one Jake made for New Year’s Eve.  He was happy to oblige, with a minor change in location.  We assembled our indoor play yard fence in the porch and let the balloon blowing begin.  Thanks to the air compressor, Jake, Uncle Tony, Nolan and Lincoln quickly filled the oval shaped pit with over 100 balloons and beach balls.

I took the easy way out this year and purchased a birthday cake from the grocery store.  Nolan picked out WALL-E for the decorative picture.  Hopefully next year I’ll feel up to putting together another homemade creation for his celebration.

The kids who joined in the fun seemed to really enjoy themselves – even the babies took part in the action 🙂  After all, who can resist that many balloons?!?

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“Chaco milk”

One of the boys’ favorite things to drink is chocolate milk, or “chaco milk” as Lincoln calls it.  We were out of the “regular” stuff, so I pulled out two of my Tupperware shaker/mixer containers and added Hershey’s syrup to white milk.  The kids loved making their own chocolate milk.   Having their own personal containers to pour it from was just about as exciting as the milk itself.

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Birthday #4 part 2

We took the kids to the local indoor playground to celebrate Nolan’s birthday.  This was his request.  He and Lincoln had a pretty good time.  Afterward, we asked what the birthday boy wanted to eat for lunch and he decided on pancakes.  We headed over to IHOP and stuffed our tummys.  When we returned home, we let Nolan (with Lincoln’s help, of course) open his birthday presents.  It was a laid back, family-filled, fun day!

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Muffins with Mom

In honor of Mother’s Day, Nolan’s preschool has a special “Muffins with Mom” event.  We arrived at the preschool room and were serenaded with “skid-a-marink-” and then given a paper basket bouquet and flower seeds.  Then we dined on muffins and punch.  It was really sweet.

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Donuts!

I had an interesting conversation with Shecklet #2 this morning as we drove into the grocery store parking lot.

Shecklet #2: “I want donuts!”

Me: “Where do you get donuts?”

Shecklet #2: “Cub!”

Guess it’s pretty telling where we frequently stop after mass on Sunday mornings and what we generally pick up 🙂

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Tony’s 30th

March 22, 2010.  My brother has entered the same decade as me once again.  It’s funny though, for some reason I have a hard time picturing him as 30.  In my mind, he’s perpetually something closer to 25.  Unfortunately, in my mind, I continue to age.  I should change that.  Ha!

The boys enjoyed helping place 30 candles on Uncle Tony’s birthday cake and then assisting with blowing them out.  Nolan somehow also snuck almost the entire chocolate bar birthday sign on the cake into his mouth before anyone noticed.

Happy birthday, little brother!