Father's Day Celebration 2009

The girls and I had a fun time planning out Mike's Father's Day celebration. Mike had to preach last Sunday, so, the girls were a little disappointed they couldn't make dad breakfast in bed. So we settled for lunch instead. Rachel picked out dad's meat to grill from Kroger. She loves to taste the "try outs" at the new Kroger by us and she tasted a "black and blue" burger and decided dad would like it. And he did. The big girls decided they wanted to blindfold Mike for his present time, hence the blanket over the face.

The girls made Mike homemade cards with pictures of themselves and dad. Rachel traced her hand for dad and used her favorite Dora stamps. I had to retrieve Nicole's card from the garbage because she felt like she had not reached "perfection" with her card. I assured her, dad would love it.


One of Mike's favorite candy is the 1000 grand bar. Rachel was just waiting for her chance to eat one.

The girls then led Mike and a blind fold hunt. Nicole led Mike around the yard trying to distract his sense of direction to throw him off and confuse him.


Mike had mentioned that his current tool box was fairly dysfunctional and that a nice stand up box with drawers would be great. So we, all 4 girls, went to Sears and tried our best to pick out something we knew nothing about. Turns out it was the right one!

After letting dad nap, for a short time, we decided to meet up with friends at Stoney Creek for a little pizza dinner, music, great weather and some swimming for the kids. It was a really great summer night in Michigan and a wonderful finish to the day.