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Backing up here...

We invited two of Cavin's girl friends over to dye Easter eggs with him and baby brother Ellis.  Cavin (of course) insisted on dying all of his eggs yellow, his favorite color, as seen below...

FOOLED YA!!!  That's actually Jonna, baby Erik, Amy, and MIKE dying Easter eggs some 30 years ago!  Can you believe it??  Friggin' spitting image of Cavin....how creepy IS that??!!

Here's the real Cavin dying eggs:

Like father like son huh?

Enjoying his first Father's Day...

...and I'm not talking about Mike b/c this isn't his first rodeo.



Construction has begun!

If you were not aware, we are in the middle of building the most enormous play structure this side of the country.  I kid of course except that it is true.  Okay that was a joke as well.

  

Mike may not like me confessing this but the size of this thing was a source of contention in our household.  He wanted to bring Disney World into our back yard while I wanted something that "fit" the size of our yard.  I quickly realized that Mike's sole priority was the happiness of the boys and not to blatantly ignore my requests and I was once again reminded why I married this man and how he is the best father to my children.  So I conceded.  BUT I still reserve the right to poke fun at its size.

So the other thing is that the instructions state that it can take approximately 14 hours for TWO people to put this together.  As hard as Cavin is trying, I do not think he counts as a whole person when it comes to the construction of this thing.  Oh, and not to mention it also states it takes 2-3 hours just to organize the parts!

Cavin and Ellis brains will explode when it is all said and done.  They will have swings, a slide, a rock climbing wall, a sand pit, a fort up in the air, and some stools to sit and rest.  I think this thing comes with a drive-thru Starbucks as well!  Another joke.

Happy Birthday Mikey!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband, amazing father, and best friend.

Love, your wife and kids

My favorite miner

When you marry someone that went to the Colorado School of Mines there are many things that go along with that. On the upside, they are intelligent, can fix just about anything, and know way too much about Coors products. And on the downside, you begin to learn that they will look for every opportunity to put on their mining light (Katie - you know what I'm talking about)...even if it is just to kill a spider.

In my husband's defense, this spider was stuck on my car for at least 12 hours! He rode to work with me, hung out on my car while I was at work, then rode back with me. He didn't move an inch but did grow a really large egg looking white thing on half of his body. It was very scary crazy so I made Mike, the miner, take care of it. As our driveway is very dark the light came in handy; however, that does not diffuse the fact that Mike's face lights up with a big grin anytime he gets to put that ridiculous thing on his head.

Happy Birthday Mikey!

Today is Mike's birthday! As he stated this morning he "is a third of a century plus a day old" today. For the normal-minded people out there that translates to 33 years. If you really want to know, I think he's pulling mind tricks on us to confuse us as to his real age. Either that or he's becoming senile in his 'old' age.

Either way, we love you honey! You are a wonderful husband, father, and friend. We hope you have a wonderful day today...and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy Father's Day!

Daddy with his kids (minus Toby):

To mark Mike's first Father's Day celebration, we decided to physically torture ourselves by loading our 75th percentile in weight baby in the stroller, picking the steepest hill in the East Bay, and hiking up it during the hottest part of the day. Sounds fun right? This is what happens when a sleep deprived mom attempts to plan a family day out.

Truthfully, it was a nice day. We started off going to mass. Then we enjoyed a picnic in the park followed by a tortuous hike in Briones park. We did get some great shots once we got to the top...

Best Buds:

Happy Father's Day Honey! Toby, Sandy, Jerry, and Cavin are a lucky bunch.