Father's Day fun ")

Here's the Dad of OUR household getting a little "pampering" action the night BEFORE Father's Day. . . LOTS of bubbles! The next morning he got scones with homemade raspberry jam and orange marmalade for breakfast which is one of his favorites. Lee had requested just to barBQ hamburgers for dinner so that's what we did (thanks Scott), with all the trimmings of course, and salads, with strawberry shortcake and homemade ice cream for dessert - YUM!
Em & Paul, Tyson & Calley, Kaisa & Billy and Mom and co. went together and bought Lee a nice hammock for Father's Day. Here's a shot of Summer, Gracie, Bailee and Tanner enjoying it.
. . . and Braden and Tanner. Is that ice cream on Braden's lips?

Okay and THEN the rest of the Father's Day story comes to pass . . . I'm sure this one will go down in history :0 (along with several other ones). I had had a L O N G and stressful week, but everything was going along fine and dandy for Father's Day when all of the sudden I look out the kitchen window to see Chad on the rider lawn mower (with Tyson behind it) trying to climb UP the huge cedar tree. There were huge rocks (the river rocks that USED to line the bed of the cedar tree) and dirt flying all over, and 2 grand kids nearly getting run over. Chad and Tyson were having a good laugh about it after the dust settled, but I was TRYING to find the humor in it, and wondering how much it would cost to replace my lawnmower, tree. . . and grand kids. I marched out there and asked "WHAT is going on ?" to which I was spoken to in LESS than a respectful manner from some of my children (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty). Since I was on a ROLL by then (I may have even spun my head around and spit up green soup or something), I turned to the Happy Father's Day guy who at the time was sitting on the swing not saying a word, and asked "and why are YOU still sitting here?" Needless to say I ended up in tears and all of the sudden. . . everyone needed to leave. The end! HAPPY FLIPPIN' FATHER'S DAY!!! So I'll consider this one, the Father's Day from _ _ _ _ . We've had other holidays like that why should Father's Day be any different? ") . . . CHIPS AHOY!!
. . . "it's okay, we can laugh about it now".