Father's Day Photo Shoot & Gift

I did a lot of searching online for Father's Day ideas and how to include the kids in making the gift for Father's Day. I discovered many photo shoots of the kids along with prop ideas and framing ideas. You can check out many of the ideas I came upon on my Pinterest board about Father's Day. I took a few of these ideas and combined them to get what you see above.

I really liked the idea of the kids finishing the sentence I love Daddy because... and using their answer in the photo shoot. I also thought it was really cute to see kids dressed in their Father's work clothes. I think it would make a nice sequence if we did it year after year to see how much they have grown. I also really like the sign for I love you in sign language, I grew up using it with my mom and have used it with the kids so I really liked the tracing of the child's hand and having it folded to say I love you in sign language and holding a heart.

Each of the kids also answered questions about Daddy (like what is his favorite food, what does he do at work, what is is favorite thing to do, etc). I plan to do that year after year as well and see how the answers change.

I would love to hear of other ideas that you come up with so I can start coming up with things for next year or birthday which is right around the corner. :)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

One of the items on our family summer bucket list was going to a baseball game. We put this on our list because our son is playing coach pitch baseball over the summer and my husband is coaching. We thought it would be fun for them to go see a game being played. So my husband and son went with my father-in-law to see the Rainiers this weekend.

We drove up to Tacoma to see the Rainiers play on a lovely rainy afternoon. Just like Washington to be 60 and rainy in late June.  Luckily it was not raining too hard and so they were not to uncomfortable hanging out and watching the game. All reported that it was fun to go see the game. We will probably do this again next year when my daughter might be able to sit through a game so we can all go.

You can check out our whole summer bucket list to see what other ideas we have for the summer and what we have already completed.