Campbell Ice Cream Social

We went to Campbell's Ice Cream Social and had enjoyed seeing some Campbell families mid summer.  The drama performance with an improv twist was cute and it was great to see kids thinking on their feet with the higher level improv games.  The girl's favorite part-ICE CREAM!

The Frog Prince

Today Bob found a frog in the yard.  He let each girls hold it.  Ok he let 2 girls hold it, Lydia is too girly for that...  Anyway, Sylvia held it and right away gave it a kiss.  I guess she is already looking for her prince charming.

Cecelia and Kathryn's Sleepover

Cecelia has been begging to have a sleep over with Kathryn since she got out of school.  I finally got it together enough top have one. We made funnel cakes, watched 101 Dalmatians, went to Granny's played, designed our own recipe for baking, and took Kathryn back to her family at the Campbell Ice Cream Social.  Good Times!

Bob's healthy dinner

So the recipe says sugar, flour, baking soda, corn, green beans, broccoli, potatoes, and strawberries.  I managed to talk them down to a corn bread "cake" with blueberries and corn in it.  They seemed ok with that :)!

Ingenioso

Circus Flora is an amazing traditional European 1 ring circus under an actual big top tent.  We have taken Bob for the past 4 years as our father's day tradition and this year was yet another amazing show.  We actually ran into Madi (one of Cecelia's friends) and her family.  After the show we were able to get pictures with some of the performers.  If you are ever in St. Louis during June make sure you try to get tickets to this show!

Cecelia's Favorite was the animal lady that trained dogs, goats, ponies, etc!

Lydia's favorite was 2 women that performed a ring dance in the air 

that is too hard to explain here, but was beyond beautiful to watch.

Sylvia is getting her picture with me with a really amazingly strong guy 

who did a ribbon dance with another woman that was breathtaking. 

The clown is Nino who performs every year with great success, 

but scared my youngest 2!

Two of the trapeze girls

If you want to bake a cake, it's not really hard to make....

We had a ton of fun with the Easy Bake Oven today.  I found a ton of really great recipes at this site and we made chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, strawberry bars, mini bagel pizzas, and a banana cake (this was my favorite, YUM).  One cookie did bake over the edge because it was too full and we had to disassemble the oven, but the baking day continued and we had a ton of sweet treats in the end!

Magic House

For the past few years Lucille and Ron got us a pass to the magic house for the girls.  The current pass expires in June so we thought we would get one last hurrah in before we have to pay full price.  We ended up spending 5 hours there and I almost had to pull the girls away screaming they were having such a good time.  We started with the old school Magic House.  Then we went to a new exhibit that is a baby nursery where you can make a birth certificate and play doctor.  After the babies we found a rooftop gardening area that was really cool.  They had a special activity day outside by the big sand box and we even got free popsicles and met the penguin.  Finally, we went to the Super Hero Save the World exhibit.  Here are a few pics....

This is what the girls would look like if I drove a smart car.

Fahther's Day Fun in the sun

On Sunday morning we went to New Town to dig in the sand volleyball courts and make sand castles.  It was a good thing the girls get up early because it was HOT by 10:30 when we were finished.  In the evening our families came over and we had a BBQ.  All in all a good Father's day had by all!

 Bob opening his gift an ipod attachment to track his runs.

 

New Town Sand

 

 

 

The sun was so bright it made really cool shadows!

 

 

Cecelia added a face to her in the sand so she would be smiling.