Happy Birthday/Father's Day!

Every six or so years, Rick's birthday & Father's Day happen to be on the same day. Today was one of those days! The kids have been so excited trying to make things & plan for this special day. We sortof declared that the morning would be more Father's Day celebration & afternoon would be more Birthday. Thanks to pinterest, we made a fun candy gram for him.

We also filled out some fun questionnaires for him. Some of the answers were really pretty good. Some of our favorites:
From Andrew: My dad is 37 feet tall & weighs 3 pounds. Favorite food is Rice Chex. When he was my age, he liked to do what I do, bad things & good things. My favorite thing we do together is playing Transformers Prime, Transformers Save the day & Transformers Meets the eye. I love  my dad because he can run slow and not THIS fast & because he can't fly & land on chairs or beds but I can.
From Joseph: Favorite sport to play is bowling. My dad is the best in the family at surpising me when I go out of doors. When my dad was my age, he liked to set goals. I love it when you tell me crazy stories about when you were a kid like when you tried to keep you swimsuit on all summer.
From Lexie: At his job, my dad gets paid a lot of money on his payday. When my dad was  my age, he liked to read and be very silly. My favorite memory with my dad is when we did the "Swiss Roll." He rolled me up in a blanket and held the end, stood up and unrolled it quickly. I was very, very dizzy.
Joseph made these really great decorations for Rick. Not sure if you can see, but he made the straws in to people wearing candy ties & put a tie on the cup. Pretty creative!

Here's the father with his cute children.

After church while Rick's requested dinner, tater tot casserole, was cooking, the kids put together a great talent show for him.

There was much hula hooping, singing, cartwheeling, joke telling, & fun to be had!

After dinner we opened presents.

And then it was time for Birthday Brownies. We had so much fun blowing out the candles, we had to do it twice.

We are so grateful for Rick & the awesome Dad that he is! We're so glad that he's in our family! Happy Birthday! And Happy Father's Day!