Father's Day 2008!

Well, our day began very simply -- relaxing at home with the family. The girls and I let Daddy sleep as long as he wanted to (as any parent knows, this is the biggest luxury of all!). After he woke up we made him breakfast and the girls got to serenade him multiple times with a loud and proud "Happy Father's Day"!!!!

Martin then took Audriana on a bike ride (Sofia is just too little to keep up with them, so she stayed home with Mommy). They rode a good couple of miles - all the way down to the gas station at the corner of Spokane/Cheney Road and 195. They made is just about half way home before I got the phone call to come down with the car to pick them up. Regardless, I was so proud of Audriana to have rode her bike all that way! Amazing....she's only 5! Speaking of that, she's also reading like a rock star -- but that's another story for a later blog. Suffice to say, she's amazing!

Joye and Sid invited us over to their house to celebrate Maria's 6th b-day, as well as Father's Day. Joye had the girls slice up fresh strawberries for the cake. It was so cute to watch them hard at work cutting those berries! We encouraged them to slice them evenly - but we ended up with a wonderful assortment of "berry chunks". It was so funny! Even little Sofia got to use a butter knife to cut up her strawberries! They felt so important making the dessert for all of us. We also had bbq flank steak, green salad (Joye's green salad is so good!), corn on the cob, french bread and fresh fruit. It was quite the feast. Kristi joined us, which made it even more fun. The Bennett's have become such good friends these past few years and we just love spending these times together.

Maria's new playhouse was a big hit with the girls. I know they will have hours and hours of fun in this little house. Maria had the Alfaro girls close their eyes while coming into the backyard so she could surprise them with her new playhouse. They were so excited!

Here is Sofia already hard at work in the playhouse -- I think she was "baking cookies".

It took all of 30 seconds between the time Martin sat down on the beach towel before his hat was down over his face and he fell asleep -- it was Father's Day, after all, so we didn't mind that he took some time to relax. He works so hard for all of us -- he deserved it!

Joye and Sid put together a cute little scavenger hunt for the girls -- here they are after they each found their very own binnoculers! Isn't this picture funny!?

Here are the girls getting the corn ready -- they were very serious little corn shuckers!