Happy Fathers Day!

The girls and I made Mike's Father's Day card this year. I saw this on the internet and when I showed it to the girls, they thought it would be fun. I know it might be difficult to read the card in the picture, but it says:

Dad, We were going to give you a whopping 100 grand for Father's Day, but the money slipped through our butterfingers. Since it wasn't payday, we couldn't buy you another pet Kat, a trip to New York or an orbit around the Milky Way. Instead, we wish you mounds of joy as you eat this card. We hope it doesn't make you rollover and get sick! Love your favorite Airheads.

Unfortunately, we didn't buy a snickers bar (it somehow got missed at the store) - so we couldn't put in the last line: "If you do, we promise not to snicker!" Anyway, the girls had fun drawing hearts and stars to cover up the parts of the candy bars that didn't work with our card and I got to write it out and tape everything down.

We took Mike out for Father's Day breakfast and then I made lasagna and pumpkin cheesecake for dinner. Mike's Dad and Kris came over for dinner and it was a nice evening.

I've been reading Harry Potter with Katelyn and yesterday she got to see the first movie. Mike took Alyssa to go mow the lot we have in southwest Boise, so we had a few hours to watch the movie. The only problem now is the fact that we just finished the third book tonight and I'm not sure the remaining books are appropriate for a soon to be 8 year old. She is begging to keep reading them and I am torn over whether to let her or not. How do you tell a child no when she wants to read? Yet the content might be a little too much for her. I tried to talk her into reading the books at the end of each school year, so the end of this upcoming year, when she is finishing 3rd grade and going to enter 4th grade, we can read book 4, but she wasn't too impressed with that idea. I left the conversation (i.e., begging) tonight with an "I'll think about it" which means I'll probably cave and let her read the next book.

Alyssa ended up hurting her foot on something when she was over at the property. She had on keens and socks when she went out there, but I guess in tromping through all the weeds, she got a bunch of thorns in her socks so she took them off and got up on a flat bed trailer we have out on the lot and then managed to get a piece of wood in her foot. Mike says there is nothing in the cut now, but she is still limping and complaining that it hurts. Hopefully it heals over the next few days.

We finished two weeks of swim lessons last week. Katelyn took lap classes this time - I only got to see her class once, but it was the funniest thing to watch her swim diagonal across the pool! They didn't have lane dividers and the concept of going straight was too much for her. She kept running into the other students. Grandma assured me she was much improved by the end of the second week. They also taught her to do a backwards dive off the diving board. I don't even know how to do that, I'm pretty impressed! I'm trying to figure you a pool with a diving board in the Boise area so I can take her and have her show us what she learned!

Alyssa was slow to remember her swimming skills from last year - but by the end of the two weeks she was starting to get it back. Hopefully we can get our pool up and running so she can continue to improve. I only signed them up for one round of swim lessons this summer, thinking we would use our pool more if I did that. So, we will see how it goes over the next few weeks. If we don't get out there, I might have to call the Dunkleys and beg Karen to put the girls in another class. (I normally call and sign up in March since there is only one class time that works for us - sometimes working has its drawbacks!) :)

Well, obviously alot of other stuff has occurred between my last post and this one, but if I waited to post until I could write all that down, you would never hear from me! I hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day!