Siding, Father's Day, and Imax!

In the last few weeks, Scott has been working on getting the siding up on our house - what a big job!! There is a lot of work involved, seeing as our house has so many jut-outs, corners, and windows! Thankfully, my dad has been able to come and help Scott much of the time, and even his brothers have been over once or twice. It's slow going though - all of the cutting and nailing up trim pieces seems to take a while! It's exciting seeing it go up, and we are absolutely loving the color we chose. It's hard to tell from those little swatches in Menards!! The kids are just loving all of the action as well. They want to get right in there and get to work, too. Especially Oliver, he seems to have designated himself as the official nail supplier to Scott and Dad. The kids love it that they can be just out and about on the yard, coming and going as they please.

Here they are working away pounding nails into a board. What good helpers!

Helping the big boys. Oliver has also been walking around with a measuring tape lately, pulling it out to measure various things and saying "two inches, two inches!" So cute.

Reaching for more nails - can never have enough!

Taking a little snooze after all of the hard work one day. This just melts me!

Fathers Day:

We had a fun and mostly relaxing day. The kids gave Scott their gifts (golf balls, which had been Kalia's idea) and a Snow White father's day card in the morning before church, and then we headed out to my mom and dad's for lunch and the afternoon. Scott had really been hoping to golf, but it didn't work out, because we ended up meeting his parents in the city for a later supper. After that, Scott and I took the kids to Dairy Queen for an ice cream treat. I think it was a good day, and definitely worth it to celebrate this man who is such a wonderful father to our two kids. Love you Scott!

Smiles with Daddy

Playing with their 'telescopes' and treasure maps!

A bit of a goofy picture, but this is the best one I had of the three of them.

Sunday after our Sunday School picnic got rained out, we took the kids home for a quick nap, and then went off to the Imax with my parents and sisters. It was a Whale and Dolphin 3D show, and we had such a fun time. The kids were totally fascinated and it was so much fun to see the show through their excited eyes. I myself have never been to a 3D show of any kind before, so I really liked that part of it as well. Kalia kept reaching out to touch all of the fish, whales and dolpins or if she wasn't quite brave enough, she'd poke her toes out at them! She was fascinated by the informational part of it as well, and soaked up the details about the beautiful mammals.

Waiting for the show to start

Mom took some pictures of the rest of us. They didn't turn out that great in the dark theatre, but I still wanted to post them.

She was so proud to have her very own "movie popcorn". She said to my mom "Nana, this is even better than the popcorn that YOU make!!"

My little goof. Could those glasses BE any bigger?! I was quite impressed that he actually kept them on most of the time. Scott helped him out by showing him the difference of how the movie looked with the glasses and without them. Way better with!! He sat pretty well for the movie, though he of course had to lap shuffle a bit between all of us. He kept shouting out things that excited him like "BIG whale" or "little fishies!!". I loved his enthusiasm.

Kalia with her silly glasses as well.

And lastly, here are a couple of pictures of Oliver from yesterday. Scott took him along to the barn with him because Oliver has been begging for weeks! He was just beside himself that he actually got to go along with Daddy. The only reason it worked out is becasue Scott didn't actually have that much to do IN the barn that day, and they did a whole bunch of other errands and adventures. Kalia and I then had a day together as well and had a great time! I took her to Superstore to get some new craft supplies, to McDonald's for lunch and then through DQ on the way home. Once we got home, we spent the afternoon together doing crafts and art projects. We've been so busy lately, that I think it was great for the kids to each get some one on one time doing something a little out of the ordinary. Sometimes these spur of the moment plans make for the best days.