Father's Day!

This year both Mother's Day and Father's Day were super low-key (but enjoyable!).

In fact, I'm going to stop for a second and tell you about Mother's Day, because it doesn't warrant its own post, but I want to tell you something funny. For Mother's Day I asked Chet for the freedom/support/time to take care of a few projects around the house without having to stop to break up fights or feed anyone lunch. For example, taking care of a VERY RANDOM pile of papers that had accumulated between us moving here and now. I spread out this very random pile of papers all over our bedroom, and Sydney and Lorelei helped me sort them and create categories and throw things away, etc. They were very helpful, but also bored to tears. Sydney asked of her friends' mothers, "Are Ms. Catherine and Ms. Stephanie sorting papers right now too?" Hmm, unlikely...but possible. It's hard to predict what a mother's heart might desire on Mother's Day.

Anyway, Father's Day! We went out to dinner Saturday night, at a Mexican food restaurant Chet and I love (but have only been to once, sans children). (We recently realized that we hardly ever take the kids to restaurants. Mostly because we have to drive at least 20 minutes to get to one, and 30 minutes if we want a lot of choices. It's almost never worth the effort.) 

This is Ruthie's "kitty cat" face. She pretends to be a cat ("me kitty tat!") at least four times an hour, and this is the face she makes while she meows:

After dinner we ate ice cream at Baskin Robbins:

Sunday morning before church the kids gave Chet the best gift ever by playing quietly together for a little while (I don't know about your house, but Sunday mornings are usually extra loud and dramatic at ours):

Then I tried to take a quick picture in the church parking lot, but:

So there you have it.

Hopefully your Father's Day was great, and full of sorting papers (if, you know, that's what you WANTED to do).