Go Diego, Go!

We had a wonderful jungle-themed Go Diego, Go birthday party on Friday for our sweet Caleb. Here are a few highlights from the morning:

The kids enjoyed zipping through the jungle to rescue baby animals (Fisher Price animals).

Once they found their animals, they went over to the Animal Rescue Shelter to put Diego Band-Aids on their little animals.

They also went fishing in the jungle pond, played with water balloons,

and cooled off with snow cones (yes, it was warm, but Lily loves her purple outfit, as most of you know).

Then there were presents to open,

and cupcakes to eat!

Just look at this happy birthday boy!

strawberry picking

Here are a few pictures of our morning spent picking strawberries up in Greenbluff.

zip line

In preparation for Caleb's Go, Diego, Go birthday party on Friday, Corinne and Phil put up the zip line that we had up at our house in California.

Aunt Corinne's glasses

Happy Birthday, Sweet Caleb

Caleb turned 5 today!

father's day fun

We had a wonderful Father's Day today!

The day started off with breakfast in bed.

After nap time, we headed to one of our favorite state parks for a rainy Father's Day family hike. First day of Summer...ha!

We had to cross over a suspension bridge to get across this water to the hiking trails. I'm not even going to pretend that I enjoyed this part. Crossing bridges like this makes me feel sick...especially with 4 squirmy kids. On the way back, they asked me if they could play Pooh Sticks with their walking sticks. Absolutely not!

"Hello!"

Phil brought his pocket knife along to make walking sticks for the kids.

Gracie's walking stick turned into a horse so the girls could play cowboy on the way back.

Time to get out of our wet clothes and warm up with some hot chocolate...

...and a nice fire.
Hope you all had a great Father's Day, too!

waiting for the ice cream truck

The boys heard the ice cream truck in the neighborhood today during quiet rest time (which is really just the girls' nap time). They decided to sit on the front porch and wait for the ice cream man to drive by.

Still waiting.
Jared thought it would be a good idea if they prayed for him to come. He told Caleb to pray so he could keep his eyes open and watch for the truck.

He didn't come this afternoon, but he did come by tonight after dinner. Perfect timing...now the girls could have ice cream, too!

All four kids chose snow cones.

Yum!

bug catchers

Doesn't this look like fun?

Yesterday the kids spent the morning outside searching for bugs with their new bug catching gear from Sonic.

Lily caught an ant. We transferred it into the bug house, then passed it around for observation.

Back outside to find more!

saturday morning photo shoot