June: Father's Day/Back to the 50's

I'm trying to catch up with sharing pictures...so here's some from June. We celebrated Father's Day by having dinner with my family at my parents' house...everyone was busy that weekend with the Back to the 50's car show. The kids made cute picture frames at daycare, so they gave those to Marshall.

Back to the 50's...there's a huge car show at the MN State Fairgrounds every June, usually Father's Day weekend. My family always ends up working at the car show in some capacity. Family friends (Ted & Randi) are part of the MSRA (Minnesota Street Rod Association) and they take care the vendors for this car show. So my Dad helps out by working at one of the buildings during the whole show and my mom, sister and brother usually work too, at vendor registration or some other event. We haven't been to the car show for years; I grew up attending car shows all summer and it's not on my list of favorite things to do...but I figured Caleb is getting to the age where he might really enjoy this...so we headed down to the fairgrounds to check it out this year. We walked around, got a bite to eat, and met up with my family in front of my Dad's building. I think the most exciting thing for Caleb was hanging out on the golf carts that the staff uses. He ended up staying for the afternoon and coming home with my Mom..while Marshall & I headed out with Ella. She wanted to run around the whole time instead of ride in her stroller..and that didn't work so well.

The Big 3-0

I turned 30 in June of this year...I never had any strong feelings about that milestone birthday, but once it was here I felt a little bittersweet. So many 'big' moments of my life have passed...getting married, having kids...I have a lot to look forward to, no doubt, but so many good things have happened already! On the big day itself, I took off from work and Marshall surprised me by staying home too. My mom took me out for breakfast, I went shopping a little, got a pedicure and Marshall and I went out for lunch. We celebrated the weekend before with my family, going out for dinner and cake later at my parents' house. It was a great birthday!

T-ball!

Caleb played t-ball this summer through Spring Lake Park Park & Rec...it was so cute to see him with the SLP logo on his uniform, just like when I was a kid (although I didn't play much softball!). One of the neighbor's grandkids was playing too (Charles, in the picture below) and they were t-ball buddies. We were able to walk from my parents' house to the games and that worked out so nice! Caleb had a great time with t-ball...he did really well playing, not so well listening (like the other 15 kids...it got kind of hectic) but he had a lot of fun. The coaches were really nice and worked well with the kids (amazing that they could learn 16 kids' names just after a couple of weeks!). Overall a good experience and we'll look forward to Caleb playing more organized softball, maybe next summer.

Hole in one!

Caleb had his first mini-golf experience recently...my dad and sister took him to Goony Golf by their house after a sleepover one weekend. He had so much fun! We used to go here all the time as kids (although we called it Spring Lake Park Amusement).