Father's Day 2009

So, for Father's Day this year... as I've told you before, we went all out!

This morning we had Steve open up the kid's cards first. They all got him a cute card about how cool he is. And this year, Noah got him a card all by himself. It was REALLY funny! It had a picture of a Boston Terrier in the front with a surprised look in it's face and it read,

"For Father's Day this year I made you a gift all by myself!"

Then you open it up and it says,

"It's out in the yard!"

I thought it was pretty funny, but the thing that cracked me up the most was that Noah got it!

Awww..... my little boy is growing up!

(sniff... such a proud moment for a Mommy)

Then Steve opened his gift from the kids. (I know you MUST be diggin' the cool ties that he was sporting. The kids made them for him at a Primary activity the previous day. He actually wore them to church. Such a good Daddy!)

It was an 8x8 hardback book (20 pages) from Shutterfly that I made with the "Daddy-o" backgroud and had different pictures of Steve with his kids on each page with little messages under each. It was pretty cool and Steve really liked it.

After church Steve came home to a "Special Dinner."

Do you remember that blog entry a couple of entries ago with the "hamburger cupcake?"

Well... I made it for Steve and the kids had a great time bringing it in to him as if it were his special meal.

Steve was pretty impressed. He even asked me how many of the red checkerboard containers I had to buy to do that "meal" for him. He was surprised to hear that I made them. Actually, I think he was VERY impressed. (Maybe even relieved that I didn't buy them.)

Then the real meal was brought out.

When I ask Steve what he wants for a special meal there are usually two things that he mentions. One we call "The Cheesy Pepper Meal" and the other is "The Pepperoni Pasta."

Since he got the Cheesy on for his birthday, I decided that the Pepperoni one was the one. Mainly because it's a lot easier to make than the other one is. A LOT.

When we have these special dinners I bring out the good China as well as the wine glasses. The boys always act "fancy" when I do. It's pretty funny when they get going.

Someday they are going to REALLY hate these pictures!

Then came time to open up the rest of his gifts. (Don't you love that grown-up wrapping paper?! Nothing says, "I see you as such a wonderful adult with great grown-up qualities, like the movie Cars wrapping paper!)

His first gift was this:

He really liked this gift! (He thought it was the "big gift" I was referring to earlier in my blog)

The next gift was his annual Father's Day Calendar!

He thought he wan't getting one this year because he got that cool Father's Day book instead. However, Shutterfly had sent me a coupon for a FREE picture book. All I had to do was pay shipping, so he got BOTH!!!

You remember the cool Elvis pictures I posted earlier this year of Steve being Elvis for a church activity?

Well, I had "The King" sign the cover of this calendar for me! (Just kidding! It was Steve's idea to pretend like he was signing it. Too funny!)

He was relieved to see that he still got his precious calendar and I really like making it for him! He gets a different picture of his family every month to look at at work and this year I found this website that actually allowed me to put pictures in the dates themselves. So, for example, there is a picture of me on July 15th! My birthday! Pretty cool!

NOW FOR THE GRAND FINALE!!!!!!

The BIG present was in the Father's Day Card I bought for him. I gave it to him last and I think he just thought it was a card until I insisted that the kids not stand in front of me while he opened it up so I could take pictures of him.

When he opened the card... THIS is what he saw!!!!

Two tickets to see AEROSMITH AND ZZ TOP in concert next month!!!!!!!

He got this huge grin on his face and said, "No way... these are fake."

(Well, to tell the truth, they are fake. I had to scan an old ticket that was lying around the house and then edit in the concert info and then print them.)

So, I said, "That's only because the real ones won't be here for another couple of weeks!"

I love the HUGE grin he got on his face.

PRICELESS!!!

What a GREAT Father's Day!!!

(Now I should probably call my Dad...)