father's day weekend.

we rushed home from vbs/day camp on thursday. 

we're talking full blown running through the parking

lots, questionable speeds on the way home...

technically they're only questionable because our speedometer doesn't work.

haha.

totally worth a ticket if i had gotten one.

we had a party with daddy.

a tea party.

we chatted til 1am his time. 

during our time, emily turned to me and said, "mom, at day camp today we talked about 'bathtizing'."  oh, i about died laughing.  i'm so glad justin got to hear that conversation.

we just finished week 2 of vbs this summer.

week 1(last week)was at west evangelical free.

i did the cheese head's senior photos. :)

 week 2 was at pathway.  at the end of the week, we had the kid's program and fun night at church. 

granny and papa came and we gave papa his gift

for father's day.

aiden had picked out a star wars card..that talked.

saturday, we joined other families of deployed soldiers at tanganyika for a free outting.  the kids loved it.

i fed the lorikeets and emily took photos.  she did good!

hope your father's day weekend was just as wild as ours!

that dog.

oh, that dog.

i told the boy to take her with him,

but as you can see,

she's still here.

blasted beast.

 i'd like to take credit for this shot,
but my 6 yr old was the one holding the camera. she does a good job. :)

okay, so maybe the dog isn't so bad...when she's not attacking me and needing a bath.

thanks to my little paparazzi in training

for the photo help.

star wars & mexico.

i had a very happy little boy this afternoon.

he finally got to see the star wars exhibit at

the exploration place.

i used both my camera and the phone camera for

the star wars room.

he wasn't a super fan of being this close to the wampa.
emily screamed and refused to get close to it at all. haha.

the kids enjoyed seeing their father, darth vader,

there, too. :)

sand people...another one emily wouldn't get near.

there was a hovercraft deal that they "drove" for about a minute and a half(thankfully aiden is 5 now so he could ride it!). aiden had to wear em's shoes, though, cause his were open toe. he didn't mind those pink shoes too much.

mexico came to town, too.

last week our friend ashley had asked about going

to the park...and then it rained that day.

so we took she and her son, andre, with us

to exploration place.

they're in town for a month or so from cancun

(no, they don't live on the beach).

her husband will be flying up here soon to join them.

we hit up orangeleaf afterwards for some frozen yogurt.
it was super hot and gross out.

andre was tired and wanted to hug everyone.
he was so cute.  aiden told me after we got home that "andre was speaking spanish or something, mom!"
hahaha!

emily hooked us up with a few photos, though this was the only one that was "mother approved". :)

let freedom ring.

i made it two months without having to charge

my camera batteries.

no photos today.

instead, here's what i worked on this morning.

excited to get some little prints done and sent

to some sailors soon.

you can find this downloadable print at 'thewhytehouse' on etsy.com. 

paint & water

today was more of a free day.  they did do some writing practice, read some books, and drew pictures, but it was more of their choice than mine.  they played outside the whole morning.  my poor neighbors...i hope they were already up at 8:30 am. 

water guns came out early today, too, so they had their lunch outside on the step.

i tried a different sidewalk paint today.  i usually just grab a piece of sidewalk chalk and crush it in a ziplock baggie til it's nothing but powder.  i get a lot of aggression out that way. :)
today i used a recipe i found on pinterest. 
2 T cornstarch
4 T water
drops of food coloring

we did about 6 batches of this the first time we painted,
8 the second time.
i split the liquid up into 3 cups before adding the food coloring.

we now have painted concrete in the front & the backyard.

i found that the paint looked really cool on the grounded when it was dripped/splattered.  however, aiden also liked it...and i forgot there was food coloring in the mix...

his arm is a little stained now.  and his white shirt.  and emily's dress, though she did that herself, not him.

we also had a water balloon toss.  they wanted to do a water balloon war, but and convinced them to hold off until they had cousins over to do that with. a war is not chasing your brother around until he falls on the concrete and scrapes his legs up...and comes crying to me...this happens every time.

did i mention that these kids cannot catch to save their lives? haha.  those balloons were flopping all over the ground.

some dropped a few times and never popped.

however, the last few popped on aiden and completely soaked him.