To say I’m behind is an understatement! Today is July 1st and I am trying to catch up back to our April posts! Yikes!! But here goes at my attempt to recollect our weeks of spring. It’s rather fitting, actually, as spring is often so busy with work and long days that all of a sudden it is summer.
This weekend we celebrated Greta’s 3rd birthday at Franklin Park Conservatory (well, the family did – I got stuck at work and arrived just before it was time to leave 🙁 ). It was a really warm afternoon and the kiddos had fun. Afterwards we headed back to the Bethune’s for dinner, cake, and presents. The theme this year was butterflies, can you tell? Kevin has a lot more photos on his phone, so I’ll have to add more here once I get them from him 🙂
Finn had fun during the week this week too with science experiments, a visit to Franklin Park Conservatory with Debbie, a trip to Graeter’s (with Lily!), and playing outside. He’s an awesome helper in the garden. One afternoon he wanted to water the plants, so he grabbed his watering can, moved a chair over to the kitchen sink, filled it up, and went out to water the plants. Take note that he’s fully prepared with his gardening gloves and hat 🙂 He’s loving his “new” helmets from the Bethune’s!
Kevin and Finn devised a nice paper funnel to plant some bean seeds in our mason jar. It worked really well – we will see how our little beans grow. Our other seedlings are off to a good start, just a week or so after planting. 
Finn and Daddy also built a nice Lincoln Log house.
Oh, and some fun with lip balm!
Bunny, Dog Dog, and Doggie blanket are staples around here 🙂 
And this week Sarah asked me to go to a fundraiser for an organization started by one of her friends. It was held at Dock580, where Kevin and I were married, so it was a bit nostalgic being there. I don’t think we’ve been back since our wedding. Sarah and I took a selfie of ourselves on the lawn where our wedding tent was. 
And once again, Google put together a pretty good summary of our week!
We had a fun pillow fight too. 
Dad had put out a lot of the plant markers we gave him for his birthday too – I took these photos to send to Kevin while he was on his trip :).
On Friday we went to the annual Powell Festival and met up with a couple of our neighbors. We had fun listening to live bands, enjoying the food trucks, and Finn loved the kids zone play area. 
And even though we are already well into summer, this year we’ve been talking about putting together a bucket list of summer time activities. So one morning I wrote it all out – we’ve got fun plans ahead!
Happy Father’s Day 2016! Finn painted a super cute canvas that included a heart formed from Finn’s fingerprints (thanks to Debbie for her creative spirit!). And he made a card too. It’s so sweet to see how proud he is when he makes something, and how excited he is to show it to us. I’m very thankful that Debbie is so great with arts and crafts as that is definitely not my gift! 
We’re enjoying a fun summer around here with trips to Zoombeezi Bay (on my days off or in the evenings since I’m now done with work at 4). trips to the zoo, playing in the backyard, gardening and growing our fruits and veggies, and outdoor summer concerts at Leatherlips park in Dublin (where we yet again ran into Kim and her family :))
This is Cooper’s baseball diamond slip-n-slide that the kiddos played on one day together. It was the sweetest thing at the end of their play time together Cooper ran over to give Finn a hug saying “Griffin – you won, you won!”. He’s such a sweet boy. 
And Finn loves be Daddy’s helper – with anything, but this day it was to change the brakes on the van. 