Father's Day Niceness

It was a wondermous day!  The day started, of course, by going to church.  It was hot as blue blazes as it has been here for the past week, but they were patient enough with Mommy to let me get a couple of shots before we left.

J and 2 of his kids - this man is truly a God-send to me and I'm so grateful to be able to call him the earthly father of my children.

After church, we came back to our house....  the plan originally was to have Robert and Audrey and J's father come over for lunch.  (My dad is still in bonny Scotland).  But, J's dad was working, so it ended up being just Robert and Audrey.  And it was wonderful!  We grilled hamburgers and hot dogs and just sat around in the nice cool air conditioning.


Well....  not the whole time.  As hot as it is right now, kids still can't stand to be inside all day.

There was ball playing......

Hula-hoop'ing......

(And as you can see by the stringy, wet hair, there was some sprinkler jumping as well).....

MUCH water drinking......

(forgive the bad focus job on this picture).

And some poor, amateur photography.  :-)

I'm attempting to keep my camera on its Manual shooting mode so as to force myself to learn how to shoot good pictures.  Obviously, here, I'm overexposed.  It was so bright outside that I couldn't tell from my viewfinder that I needed to make some adjustments.  And, it was too stinkin' hot to spend too much time with the daylillies.


Overall, it was a lovely day with lovely people, and I for one enjoyed it.  Hopefully, the two dads that were there enjoyed it too!  At least the food was good.
:-)  And the cousins are SO digging being together right now.  Yay for FATHERS!!!!!