My Two Dads...

No I am not talking about the show from the 80s... (Man I can still picture the amazing 80s loft they lived in)

 

I am talking about my actual life.  I am one of the lucky ones that has 2 dads. I have my father and I have also been blessed to have my stepfather in my life for 21 years. I am very close to both of them and cannot imagine my life without them. With the help of my mom and my siblings they have helped to make me the woman I am today.

We all live such busy lives that we tend to forget that fathers should be celebrated every day and not just on fathers day. (same for moms/mothers day)

Sometimes people amaze you without even trying. I am very proud to say that my hubby is a fantastic father. He knows the way to make my little girl happy (and me happy).

So this is dedicated to all the dads (dad, Jim, my hubby, brother, and bro in laws) in my life- you are all amazing and I love you!!

Kindergarten field trip to the farm

We are lucky enough to have a farm that is owned by our city park board that is open for all to come visit. Caitlin's school got to go (in early May) to the farm for most of the day.

Of course one of Caitlin's favorite parts was the fact that she go to ride on a school bus there. I don't know what the fascination is of school buses but I remember how disappointed she was when she found out that we live too close to the school to ride one so I guess I can see how exciting this would be.
 Lining up. 

 My kiddos that I was responsible for (since I was a chaperon). I just love the look on Dale's face (he is the one on the right). He was TOTALLY not going to hold a girl's hand for a photo.

 We saw all kinds of animals at the farm...

 My little cowgirl.

 And some genius (I am not joking-someone is truly a genius for coming up with this part of the farm) decided to throw a bunch of hay bails in a fenced in area and let kids climb all over them. This was free entertainment for at least an hour.

 They had classroom time (I didn't really get any good pics in there) that was actually pretty entertaining. Mr Nick (which just happens to be Caitlin's teacher's hubby) taught the kids the importance of all of the different types of animals on the farm and why they actually serve a purpose and not just to petting zoo.


They also had lots of tractors to play on. I just love this old John Deere.

 Lunch time.

Caitlin always begs for me to come to her school and eat lunch with her so I was very excited to finally get to share a lunch with her!! That morning Caitlin even helped me pack our lunches with all kinds of goodies. When it got to be lunch time she pulled out a sack lunch that she had purchased from the school (because she forgot about our lunches we made). She also refused to sit by me and only wanted her friends and teacher to be in her area so I was shunned to the end of the table to fend for myself. I ended up having a good time with all of the other castoffs (other moms) and shared my 2 lunches with all of them.

 The last thing they did was play on the huge playground. This thing has 6 or 7 slides and a million things to climb on.

I would consider this to be the BEST FIELD TRIP EVER. I had so much fun with all the kiddos.