Wednesday, June 24, 2015

My family spoils me

I got the royal treatment on Father's Day. Biscuits and gravy for breakfast with hash browns, eggs, and fruit.
 I got more gifts than I deserve



 I got a hedge trimmer and a leaf blower to help me whip the yard in shape


 I feel so blessed to have such wonderful children!
 We all lounged around the backyard in the afternoon
  I love my family!
Here's our little library/book-worm
 Lyza's new favorite park activity is to go head first on her tummy down the slides

 Fine dining for these kids
 While they wreak havoc on the back yard I weed the lawn
 Kim and the kids picked cherries this week at a friend's house...too bad all the cherries had worms :(


 This girl loves to snack in all sorts of different places
 I am not sure why this picture got added, except for the fact that this is the most handsome little man around
 Lyza loves to catch spiders...It's all fun and games until she accidentally "breaks" her spider and gets sad
 Our library has a summer reading program where the kids can get a free book each week if they read enough each week. We like to read library books around here
 Lyza floating around with one of her friends
 quack-quack
Another fun round of jump on and off of daddy
We are excited to visit with family this coming week. Yeah for summer vacation. Take care

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to our daddys!
We love and appreciate each of you and hope you have a great day. Thank you for your endless sacrifices on behalf of your children.
Here is Lyza's ode to her grandfathers (each of you will be receiving your live, in-person, "great big kiss" shortly)
Lyza sure is a fun little girl. She loves to dance
She is very smart! She was playing with some beads, making necklaces and bracelets, and all by herself she made this bracelet. She was not given any help and spelled mom all by herself
She likes to help out around the house, especially watering the flowers or the grass
Over the last few years we have shared many of Lyza's ridiculous sleeping positions. Here is one of her latest. We call it the ostrich.
And who else could look so good riding a tire horse while wearing a princess dress?
Or look so good wearing a mask that she made at the library
She might have a future in puppeteering 
This "little" guy is in a very busy stage of life. Nothing in our house is safe from him. Not even the counters are safe. He can grab onto the counter and pull himself up/walk up the cabinet door with his feet. He is a little monkey
I was admitted to the Alaska Bar Association recently
It was a really cool experience because I was able to have a local judge administer my oath. This is Judge Meyer, Kootenai County's newest District Court Judge. Before taking the bench she was a partner at James, Vernon & Weeks, P.A., the firm that I work at. I also consider her a friend and mentor. 
Family Home Evening to Home Depot. The kids love the shopping cart with steering wheels
Kim found this cute/silly (depending on who you ask) outfit for Nixon at a garage sale

Our family spent an afternoon hiking and exploring here is Post Falls at the Avista Dam.
We saw some "interesting" wildlife




We played at the park after
I love these things
Cute boy in a yellow tunnel. Enough said.
Kim sent me this picture while I was at work one day. Here she is exerting her superior intellect and problem solving skills over the children's playground equipment. She certainly is the brains of this operation!
A whole bunch of kids and a giant parachute is always a lot of fun
This is one of our favorite games in the evenings: climb on daddy
Lyza loves bubbles so much we got her a bubble gun. Not only is she exercising her second amendment rights, but she is having a blast
On Friday night we went to a party at the annual Car d'Alene kickoff (car show weekend for Father's Day weekend)
There were lots of cool cars to see



Then we went to the park as a family. This particular park has lots of musical instruments that the kids really love ( I may also like them a little :)



They also have some of these spiny chairs that Nixon really likes



We finally found a large ladder yesterday that we could afford (a used wooden ladder) so of course I had to do some things at the highest parts of our house


We also spent some time at the beach yesterday
That's all for now. Again, happy Father's Day. We love our dads. Take care.