Happy Father's Day

Corbin finished his swim lessons. He loved them. He passed his class with a check on every skill and advanced to the next class next year. I talked to his teacher in church and she said that usually takes her students two years to move to the next class and that he is very coordinated. It's true, he takes after his dad. Gabby who hurts herself on a daily basis may have taken after me.

I took Gabby and Corbin to the Meridian pool Wednesday night. It was kind of cold. Poor Gabby's lips were blue. I'd really like to try to take them once a week. It's pretty inexpensive, they love it, and I want them to be good swimmers.

I have been wanting to take the kids to the zoo once this summer and Thursday morning we decided to just do it. It was a cooler day and Thursdays are half price day (or so I thought). We got there and I got in line and I couldn't believe the prices. Not only did they increase all of the fees but it's no longer half day Thursday, it's now reduced price Thursday (and it's hardly reduced). So after all that effort we turned around and started to head home. I felt bad and so I decided to do a less expensive splurge and take the kids on the paddle boats. This was a joke! I'm holding Piper nearly 5 months pregnant, paddling with Corbin and Gabby on either side. Piper is whining/crying the whole time. She was scared or didn't like it or something. We start heading back and the chain fell off and the boat wouldn't paddle anymore. Seriously! So funny. Gabby who had been surprisingly pleasant up to this point was in a panic and Piper was much more calmed down as we were no longer moving. I tried to get attention from another paddle boat and I swear the lady was looking right at me and ignored me. Awesome. Luckily I was able to get a hold of a much kinder soul who paddled her way to another boat and sent the message that we needed help. Have you ever been on a paddle boat? It's really tiring and really slow. Needless to say it took awhile before we got any help. Luckily I had a package of graham crackers that even helped calm Gabby for awhile. She doesn't like to eat them but enjoyed feeding the geese. We came so close to being blown into shore that I hoped we could hop off and get out. No such luck. We were eventually blown into a tree at the very furthest end of the pond. Help finally arrived and we slowly paddled our way back. It was definitely comical and memorable for sure.

Friday night we got a Little Caesar's pizza and had a picnic at DeMeyer Park. Afterwards Scott cleaned out the gutters. How exciting! Corbin was his little helper on the roof and he was loving it. He has asked to go on the roof everyday since.

I took the kids to Family Dollar and we bought treats for daddy for Father's day. They were good about keeping the treats a secret. They also colored some ties for Scott's scavenger hunt. This morning Corbin and Gabby helped me set up the scavenger hunt. It was so funny to do that with them. At the end Scott woke up and I kindly asked him to hang out in his room for a few more minutes. When I came back Gabby said, "that was close!" So funny. They were not good about being secret keepers about where the clues were. We had to keep telling them not to tell daddy where the clues were. It was cute and fun though. Thank you Pinterest. For breakfast Scott got his favorite breakfast casserole, for dinner he had pork chops, green bean casserole, and twice bakes potatoes. We even had Costco cheesecake for dessert. Scott LOVES cheesecake! I'm so grateful to have a loving righteous daddy for my children.

Corbin can swim and come up for air and start swimming again.

He was totally fearless and was always the first to go off the slide and diving board.

Gabby loves to wear her swimming suit all the time. Love the suit with the boots Gabs. Good  look.

Having victory ice cream after a job well done.

Gabby trapped in the trees while we awaited our paddle boat rescue.

My friend had a garage sale and had her husband build that lemonade stand just for the sale. Seriously! So cute. The baked goods were amazing as well. She is quite the cook, baker, and crafter obviously! I think that is the best cinnamon roll I've ever had!

Scavenger hunt.

Corbin and Gabby being Scott's scavenger hunt companions.

Corbin actually got up and sang today. Hooray!