Father's Day Weekend recap!

  This Father's Day was so fun. We like to stretch holidays into entire weekends in our household. So this means James gets to pick all the activities for the weekend (including where to eat and when to start his day, ha!) We started the festivities on Friday night. After James got off work we took the girls to see Madagascar 3 and then got some indian food.
 
Saturday I made chocolate chip pancakes and lattes and let James sleep in. (It didn't help that this was a rare weekend that Violet decided to wake up at 6am both days! ahhh!) Anyway, back to James. ;) So after stuffing our faces on chocolate chip pancakes we decided to try to burn it off at the gym for an hour- side by side elliptical machine workouts baby! Now that's what I call love! After our strenuous workout session for all of a mere 45 minutes we picked up Penelope from kids corner and took her to her first ballet class! These classes encourage parent participation if needed, and since it was her first class Pen needed a little motivation at times and that's when dad stepped in. She LOVED it! So cute.      

After ballet we all went out for sushi and then took the girls home for their naps. We decided to hire a sitter so we could have an early night out just the two of us. It is so nice not having to do the bed time routine and just bail! I love summer and that everything stays so light out as well. One thing I miss now that I'm a parent is sometimes just getting out in the DAYtime and enjoying being downtown without the kids. So we decided to park downtown and take the water shuttle to the pier for a little wine tasting over the water. So nice and relaxing! Afterwards we went to hibachi. Its been ages since we've done a hibachi dinner and it sure did hit the spot!

Sunday we went to breakfast at Esaus's in Carp with James's dad and his little brother and sister. I love Carp it is so cute and festive. Penelope loved playing at the little park near the beach.Then we took the kids to see my parents and brother. We were hoping to swim but it was way too cold.

It was a fantastic weekend and I loved celebrating James. He is such a patient, loving, hard-working totally devoted dad. He soaks up those girls every chance he gets, and you can tell just how much joy he gets from being a dad. I remember way back when were just dating thinking how cool it would be to see him as a dad one day because I watched how other kids responded to him, and how much his little brother and sister loved him. Dad's don't get enough credit these days. There is a lot of pressure to provide and fulfill all of their family's needs, and I know so many super star dads that just impress me so much.

Happy Father's Day!!!!

wine tasting at the Deep Sea tasting room on the pier

hibachi baby!

feel that heat?!

how stinkin' cute are they?!

It was also my brother Eric's first father's day.
He is such an amazing dad.
I'm so proud of him.

Father's Day Weekend

Father's Day Weekend was so much fun.

On Saturday we joined Penelope for her first ballet class. 

It's a parent-tot class so James jumped in for most of it to show Pen a few things. ;)

Later that night James and I went out for a little wine tasting on the pier- you couldn't pick a more relaxing spot to linger. Then we walked up State Street in a blurry state to have dinner at Something's Fishy. We hadn't been there in forever so it really hit the spot. On Sunday we met up with his dad, brother and sister in the morning at his dad's favorite breakfast spot- Esau's in Carp. To top it all off we paid my dad a little visit later that day. All in all, a very fun dad weekend. 

James you blow me away at how great of a dad you are. 

So loving, patient, nurturing, fun and hard working. 

I am in awe.

love you baby bear

all that dancing is exhausting!

princess dance!

practicing her moves

wine tasting on the pier!

my brother Eric and my dad's house

James's dad gregg with his brother Patrick and sis Isabella

something's fishy!

onion volcano!

Father's Day in Vegas!

We spent Father's Day weekend in Las Vegas. Surprisingly James and I have never actually spent anytime in Las Vegas together. I really wanted to take him to the Hotel at the Mandalay Bay. I stayed here for my bachelorette weekend and loved it. Needless to say, James loved it too. He had so much fun in the wave pool and pushing P and I around the lazy river. My parents were staying in Vegas as well so we spent Saturday and Sunday night with them. It was so nice because they babysat for us both nights and during the day on Sunday so we could enjoy the gym and pool. Hallelujah! We ate at Chef Bobby Flay's restaurant Friday night (James's favorite), Mario Bottali's restaurant and the Paris hotel's Mon Ami Gabi. We also got tickets to the Beatles Love Cirque de Soleil show which we've both been dying to see. It was awesome btw. All in all it was a fantastic weekend and we wish we could have stayed longer.P gettin ready to go poolside

James and P sitting outside the Lazy River at the Mandalay Bay

James got to spend his very first Father's Day in Vegas! Yay James!

We bought this raft for Penelope and boy are we glad we did. Its too hot in Vegas to have the little ones outside without being in the water. This way she also had some shade. We took her in it at the Mandalay Bay's lazy river too, it was so cute!

My mom and dad lunching with us at Mon Ami Gabi at the Paris

We had dinner here one night and it was so nice because we got to sit outside and watch the Bellagio fountains from across the street. The food was so good too. We had filet mignon with merlot butter on top. Yum!!!

We decided to take the Eiffel Tower ride, its worth it for the view!

Paris Eiffel Tower (Practicing for the real thing)

P loves her Grammy!

enjoying a latte and croissant at the Paris Hotel