father's day fun

after going to church on sunday morning, we headed over to mom and dad's to celebrate father's day with them, jenn, don and rainah. mom set up the pool for the kids and we brought along the slip n' slide-with permission of course. we were never allowed to have one when we were young...it would ruin the grass!! here is where i send out a special props to my kellogg grandparents who spread out a huge piece of plastic in their yard for us to slide on! what would we have done without you?!
hayden started and showed the little kids just how it was done. rainah quickly jumped in and was fearless with it. talan, who really does not like being splashed, would really only walk and then occasionally fall on it.
we then all ate lunch outside and the kids quickly went back to the pool. after awhile, we were able to get the kids back up on the deck so we could let all the dads open their gifts. we got dave several shirts and a book that i made him on shutterfly filled with pictures of him and the boys. i think it turned out great and he later told me it was the best gift he has ever gotten.
we had a great time and hope all of you other dad's out there did as well.
happy father's day!

they couldn't wait to get on the slip n' slide:



hayden thought he was bowling apparently:
lunch time!:

talan watched hayden dump buckets of water over himself and then he wanted to try. however, he hates getting water in his face. so he'd dump it and run to me so i would wipe his face off.:




talan had some really important things to tell papa:
at the end of the day, when we turned the slip n' slide off, the kids watered it their own way:



and then they did this. something hayden always does with an empty pool because of the old home movies of himself when rob, sara and josh came for a visit:

rainah was making a "squishy face" with talan watching intently so he could them mimic:
i think i have far too many pictures of these two like this:
i hate this picture because talan looks so big: