Rob's birthday and grandparents

I think this might be on Father's day.  My best friend with our amazing kids.  I love this picture.  :)

My dad happened to be in town on Father's day.  He was planning on making dinner for his Dad on Father's day.  I invited ourselves over because I had some gifts that my mom had sent up for him for Father's day.  We also brought the kid's instruments so they could play a couple songs for their great grandparents.  

The dad's and kids.  Plus Grandma.  :)

Three generation picture.  Zac is being eaten by the couch.

On the way home from Syracuse Finley called out "look at me!"  I looked back and saw this.  :)

My dad opening his presents.  They were bike themed.  

My dad offered to watch the kids so we could go out on Rob's birthday.  We ended up at a few restaurants that were about to close.  Then we wandered around and ended up at a place we always go.  Ha ha.  But we didn't really mind because it was fun to just drive around together.  

I made him a vanilla cake with strawberry frosting with fresh strawberries from the Food Nanny cookbook.  It was yummy.  He turned the big 4-1

Zac and I found Rob's next hat.  It says Budweiser on it.  ha ha

My dad and I hung out in the pool.  The kids got out because they were too cold.  We talked about the talk I had to give the next Sunday about fathers.  He gave me some good stories to use.  

 

End of the School year!

Here are some pictures from field day and last day of school festivities including a party that Zac had for a bunch of 6th graders.  I got to volunteer and be there all day.  It's so fun helping at the school and being able to see my kids with their peers.  

Here's Zac with a few friends from his class. 

After school the kids swam in the pool that we set up in the backyard.  

Emery had her last basketball game of the season.  She did great!

Zac invited about 30 people to come over and have a end of 6th grade party.  About 20 people ended up coming.  It was very tiring but we played lots of games, ate snow cones and pizza and I think the kids had a good time.  This picture is from a game we played where I froze some of Rob's shirts and the different teams came up with ways to thaw the shirt.  First team to put it on won.  This was the winning team.  It ended up taking a lot longer than I thought.  They worked on those shirts for about 30 minutes!

Here's Emery with a few of her friends from school. 

 

 Hanging out at Zac's party.  

 

Group shot after the party.  Lots of people had already left.  

 

Zac's 12th birthday

 Playing catch up here...

Zac turned 12 this year.  He had a pretty chill birthday.  We got him a basketball hoop so he could practice basketball at home.  It has been well used.  Rob and I decided to put it together the day of his birthday to surprise him when he got home from school.  Well, it took us a lot longer to put together than we thought so Zac saw it before it was all the way ready. Sadie had run down to the canal to stall him but we still didn't finish.  ha ha. But it was a good surprise.  

Zac with the new hoops.

We showed up at Zac's classroom to bring in the treats to share with his class.  We made him this cool poster to wear the rest of the day.  :) His teacher loved it!

Happy 12th birthday!  He is almost as tall as me now.  He is the best brother, loves to play games of any kind and has lots of friends.