Happy Father's Day

We celebrated Father's day by taking Dusty to a fancy pants dinner at.....Fazoli's!  He scarfed down a meatball submarino and seemed very happy. :)  His gift was a DVD of Macgyver TV movies and we let him spend most of the day reading fiction.  Around 5PM I decided we needed to venture out.  We headed to the Indy Arts Park that had just opened today.  We arrived after all of the activities, but no matter we walked around to see what we could see.  Several cool sculptures including one that looks like a basketball court with metal arches to resemble the path of a ball.  It's a neat place to take pics, but it needed to be about 15 degrees cooler!  A sample of the day:

Time once again for...

the regularly scheduled thunderstorm shot...

And a self-portrait of the dummy that stands out on the back deck and takes photos. That is until the lightning gets just a bit too close, then I run back in. :)

Randomness

**Only one more day of VBS - Took a nap this afternoon...tired!

**Going camping next week.  Forecast says it's supposed to be 90!  Apparently we can only go camping when it's blazing hot

**Beautiful rainbow on Tuesday evening at our house

**The gray in my hair has been banished for 8 more weeks

**I made a Thai chicken pizza last night.  Recipe from Trader Joe's.  I thought it was quite yummy

Every color, every race

This week is vacation bible school at our church and I'm teaching preschool missions and music.  One of the points of the lesson today was how God loves everyone of us.  We talked about how we are all different and unique.  We may have different hair, eye, or skin color but that God loves every person.  One of my classes in particular demonstrated this fact very well.  Three beautiful children....an one big goofball!  If only adults would learn that lesson so well.

And right now our nightly thunderstorm is rolling through, so here's a few shots from last night's storm.

Indy Air Show

Becky called a couple days ago and said, "I'm thinking of taking the kids to the Indy Air show, want to come?"  I'll admit my initial thought was...It's supposed to be 90 degrees on Friday and airfields = no shade.  5 kids + 90 degrees + no shade = Crazy!!  Sure I said.  And off we went. I hoped for the best. :)

On a side note, you will probably find that most of the photos of me this summer will be with a bandana tied around my head because 1. I want to keep my hair out of my face and off my neck and 2. Keeps the sweat out of my eyes. And there was plenty of that today.

We all had a lot of fun. It was funny watching David awestruck by all of the planes taking off and doing aerobatics.

Here are the kids in the back of one of the planes. There were people in front of us lifting their kids up in there so we waited until they were done and put the kids in there. Approximately 2 seconds after I snapped the photo a security guy came around the wing and said, "NO, NO, NO! We do not climb in the planes!" I apologized profusely and got them out quickly. Perhaps they should keep the door shut.

We watched the Jelly Belly plane do some tricks and then proceed to land on top of the RV as it was driving down the runway.

Then it was time for the F-18 demonstration. An F-18 screaming down the runway is LOUD! An F-18 screaming by while AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" is playing on the speakers is a ton of fun. I really wanted to yell, "I feel the need....the need for speed!" And then give Aaron a high five, but I resisted.

After the demonstration Aaron and David got to meet the pilots and get a signed photo of the plane.

Afterwards we loaded up and hit the McDonald's for an ice cream cone on the way home. And a good time was had by all...a hot time, but a good time.

A victory at Victory Field

Took in an Indians game last night out on the lawn.  Indians won 4-1 which is a first for me.  I think they've lost all the other games I went to.

I think all of the kids were vaguely aware that there was a game going on. Between the potty breaks, wrestling, and scarfing down almost every bit of food we had they all seemed to have a good time.

Hiking at Shades

It was too nice of a day to stay in.  After lunch Dusty, Rachel, and I (Aaron was at a friend's house) headed out to Shades state park for a little hiking.  I was packing my trusty Canon xti...this time with a memory card...to do some shooting.  My idea of relaxation.

After taking on a fairly easy trail we headed down trail 5 marked "rugged". It consisted of hiking to the river down a creek bed. Muddy...wet...my idea of hiking.

After we got down to the creek I got ready to head up trail 4 marked, you guessed it, "rugged". Dusty stopped and said what's the difference with this trail 4 and the other one marked 4. I answered that this one is rugged. Dusty's response - "And that's what you WANT?" Yep, I'd rather hike my way back up through a creek bed than to walk up using stairs. What's the fun in that?

And a few HDR shots to round out the day.

And this barn has been making an appearance over at Painter El Cinco. I didn't realize it was the exact same one until I got home. Honestly! :)