Happy Father's Day!

Over Memorial Day weekend Chad, Maggie and I went up to the mountains for a little hike. Chad carried Maggie in the backpack and she couldn't have been happier. Chad and I had fun too. Surprisingly there was still quite a bit of snow on the ground. Weird weather we've had this year, huh?

Anyway, this post is dedicated to Chad on his second Father's Day as a dad. Thanks for being so great. We love you.

Pure Awesomeness

Here we go again. Thanks, Fresno!

Style

A couple weeks ago Maggie wore this outfit to dinner. We went to a nice Peruvian restaurant. As you can see she was happy to look so stylish and chic.

Girl Time

On June 1 Maggie and I met up with a couple of our friends at a local park. It was a mild-weathered day and I'm glad we took advantage of it with them.

Storytime

Last weekend Maggie sat in my rocking chair and read the story Olivia to Brown Bear.

Cherries

Over our busy Memorial weekend we managed to squeeze in a trip to a local cherry farm. The farm we went to offered self-picking and we thought Maggie might enjoy doing something like that. It was a beautiful windy day and we had a fun time. Maggie liked pulling the cherries more than eating them, and she especially liked picking the ones that weren't ready. We ended up with a bucket of cherries and about 5% of them were unripe and sour. Oh well, she enjoyed pulling those so it was definitely worth it.

Park Play

 Last Friday Maggie met up with some of her friends at the park. They played with bubbles and climbed on the structures, but the most important and entertaining part of the morning for them was playing in the puddles. Stomping on, splashing in, sitting in, and even (gasp!) drinking from (I know--gross gross gross) were all on the list. Cute, but crazy kids.

Lettuce

Earlier this week we noticed that some of our lettuce was ready to be harvested. With Maggie's help (she put the leaves in the bowl after Chad clipped them) we were able to get a dinner's worth of romaine. Chad and I enjoyed it with our meal immediately after but Maggie didn't want to have anything to do with it. She kept asking for a mato (tomato) from the garden. Unfortunately none of those are ready yet.

Brave New Girl

Every day it's increasingly apparent that Maggie is becoming more of a child and less of a baby. On Saturday at the church carnival there was a standard bounce house (which as usual she thought was pretty rad) and some sort of crazy bounce obstacle course with an inflatable climbing wall/ladder and slide at the end. The thought never occurred to me to let Maggie play on such a big kid structure. Chad, on the other hand, was all about letting Maggie explore it. So I let them do their thing and I avoided the area, not wanting to see my baby fall 15 feet to the ground. Turns out she's no longer the baby girl I thought she was. After I got some guts I wandered over to them and saw our child climb and slide with the big kids. And every time she ended up totally OK. Here's video overkill of the slide. She did make it up the ladder and down the slide quite a few times, but unfortunately the only time Chad taped her heading up the ladder was when she fell. Anyway, watch for her climbing up in the first video, and in the other two videos you'll see her sliding down on the left-hand side.

Church Party

Last weekend my parents' church (and my childhood church) celebrated its 50th anniversary. To honor the milestone the church held a carnival last Saturday with games, bounce houses, food and music. We had fun and Maggie did too.

In related news, this past year my dad has been busy researching the history, conducting member interviews, and writing the facts down in a book to give the church members for the big anniversary. My mom had a big hand in the book too--she designed the layout, typed the manuscript, and performed the final editing before sending it to print. It's a comprehensive, special book and members and leaders of the church are lucky to have such a well-documented published history.