Late Father's Day

Since Mike and I were gone over Father's Day, we celebrated it a couple of weeks later.

Nora made Mike some pancakes for breakfast, and some chocolate cupcakes for dessert. Each of the kids made him a special card.

This was Sam's card

It had a dollar taped inside

Evie's card

Nora's card

It came with a little book of coupons (No questions asked edition!)

June Misc.

Here are a few more things that happened in June:

Evie got a haircut

We celebrated National Doughnut Day

Some photos of Max when he was hanging out on the basement couch

Nora and Dorie taking a fake napping picture - haha

Nora with her reading buddy

Celebrating Grandma Griffin's birthday at Chili's!

One of the women that works in the volunteer office at the Humane Society fosters kittens, and she brings them in to work with her so she can bottle feed them. You can't see it in this picture, but they room in with a rabbit that they snuggle up to. They are so cute and tiny!

Summer evening at the park - I really love this picture

One of the many car rides up to Salt Lake this month

Sam stole the top of the girls' music stand to be his "crossbow"

Hanging out with cute V at Sunday dinner

Nora is very diligent about brushing Dorie's teeth every day. Dorie likes her chicken flavored dog toothpaste.

Max hanging out with me while I use the laptop

Cute little Sader-Puff

The kids got the idea to build a dog kissing booth, and they have built several variations of it during the month

Sam found a giant beetle at the park

Happy kitty face

I saw this sad message on the neighborhood facebook page one day - that a mother robin had died, and the babies in the nest were not being taken care of. I guess the father robin had come a few times, but hadn't been back for over a day. Nora and I were able to go pick up the nest at the neighbor's house and drive it up to a wildlife rehabilitation center in Ogden that could take care of the little birds. Unfortunately, only one baby survived, but it was surprisingly strong for all it had been though, and the rehabilitation specialist said that they get lots of baby robins, and once it got to a more stable condition they would put it with some other ones that are the same age so it wouldn't be alone.

On the way home from the wildlife rehabilitation center we stopped for some lunch

The kids wanted to try a new app that lets you make Nyan Cat photos, so here is Sadie as Nyan Cat

The real Nyan Cat, for reference:

Vienne's 2nd Birthday

Vienne turned two this month, and she had the cutest panda themed party

There was a 2 on the wall, made up of photos of V with panda bear things

Some of the fun panda decorations:

The kids made a panda bear mask craft

The kids also enjoyed playing some cards

Some of the helpers in the kitchen:

 Beth and Vienne dressed like pandas

John and Andrew did not dress like pandas, but were still pretty cute

A new way to wear party hats

Fun with cousins

Dinner was a delicious Chinese food buffet

Panda grilled cheese sandwiches - the kids loved these

Sam trying out one of the panda suckers

Reading one of the panda books with Kate

The cake was adorable!

The cute birthday girl

V loves her Elmo, and spent a lot of time pushing him around in the stroller

The balloon drop was exciting!

James helped V open her gifts

Dubie getting some snuggles

The favor was popcorn in a cute panda bag

It was such a fun party for a darling little girl!