father's day 2013

fathers day happened to fall on stake conference day this year. yay for an extra hour to sleep in! or an extra hour to make breakfast for daddy to eat in bed! matt requested an omelet with sauteed veggies, so we added the bacon, avocado, bagel, and strawberries. it was yummy!

all day on saturday addie had been making fathers day cards and hiding them all around the family room so daddy could go on a treasure hunt. i finally managed to convince her that it would be a good idea to put at least one on daddy's breakfast tray. :)

after conference the young women passed out these cute m & m bow ties. :)

lookin' good!

we had a troop committee meeting after church to get the boys all ready for scout camp, and then it was home sweet home. we sent daddy up to nap and then i forced alexis and joseph into 3+ hours of slave labor chopping veggies for salad. except that i think i might have to relinquish my slave labor back to school because their time telling skills are severely lacking - we got home at 1:30 and left for laura's at 3 - and they didn't work the whole time. 

anywho, during our lighthouse adventures we had talked about how we really needed to do something big for the guys to make up for our awesome mothers day trip. and then we couldn't quite come up with anything... so 4 family dinner it was! we wanted to grill, but i have a firm policy that doesn't allow me to learn the grill, (i don't want grilling duties. ever.) but shelly does grill! and so does asa, so it was perfect. we all brought way too much food and had burgers, dogs, brats, chicken, salad, potato salad, broccoli salad, cauliflower and broccoli, and then cupcakes, elves cap cookies, texas sheet cake, and pretzel caramel yummies. matt had requested elves caps, which are traditionally a christmas treat, but whateva. so i went to make them sunday afternoon, but alas, i had no butter! (i had put butter on a list given to matt about a month ago and he forgot to pick some up, and then i've forgotten ever since to add it to my list - trying times in the kingdom!) so i called darlaina, who had some, but it was frozen. long story short (ha!) i think i defrosted the butter too much cause my elves caps were completely flat! they have never turned out so badly! then, to make matters worse, my frosting for my cupcakes separated! another first for me! (although my potluck sharing dishes have gone wrong several times, now that i think about it) so here are the ugliest desserts i've ever made.

 ugh!

 

cute kids! they have so much fun together! so much fun, that addie threw a huge fit when it was time to go and cried the whole way home. it was great!

i had wanted to get the kids together to do a skit, or song, or something, but that never happened. maybe next fathers day. :)

we got home, got girls to bed, got daddy to bed, and then had a huge mess to clean up. then this late nighter and i hung out, during which time she fell again and got a knot on her head again. then, after cuddles, she was being so cute and silly. and i wanted a picture of her head, but i had my flash on so we got the good ol' flash blink. i could just eat up this goofy girl!

 

happy fathers day to all the daddys!