Henlie and I have been practicing the song Daddy's Homecoming for months in preparation of Father's Day.  Unfortunately, the closer Father's Day got, the less she wanted to sing it.  Thankfully, the morning of Father's Day, she did sing it...somewhat, anyway.  At least she wasn't saying, "No, no, no!"

We also gave Daddy a picture frame with pictures of Henlie in it that my friend, Leah of L. Albright Photography, took at ward playgroup the Tuesday before.  Matt loved them, until Henlie tried to stand up on the bed with the frame still in her hands.  She landed the edge of the frame on Matt's forehead.  Oops.

At church, Matt got a Snickers candy bar.  He mentioned, "I noticed they didn't say they had extras of the candy bars like they did flowers for Mother's Day."  haha.  At least Snickers is his favorite :)

Henlie also made him a tie in nursery.  It was a pretty cute idea - D.I. ties with stickers :)


That afternoon, we headed to Matt's parents' like we always do and had dinner and watched some World Cup.  We told Dad Happy Father's Day, but that was about it.  After we came home, we called my dad to wish him a Happy Father's Day as well.  We're super good children, can you tell? :D  We did get Henlie to say "Happy Daddy" on the phone at least. :)

But really, we love and appreciate our dads and grandpas.  They are all great men and wonderful influences in our lives.  Henlie also loves her Daddy, and is super lucky to have him. :)

Saturday evening, we headed back to Mapleton for a family BBQ.  Matt's aunt and uncle just moved back to Utah and were down, so Grandma and Grandpa Christiansen had everyone over for dinner.  Dinner was supposed to start at 6pm, which is when closing massed bands was supposed to start, so we went without Matt. (All of their bands took first in their events, though!)

We were a bit late since we had to go grocery shopping first, but it worked out since most people were late it seemed.  Henlie had a blast.  Ryan and Emily's girls loved on Henlie and Charlie and helped them play on the swing set. Henlie also loved getting to play with Charlie.  They're such good cousin friends.  

Not only that, but there were otter pops!  Henlie shared with Uncle Devan.  She'd suck the juice out, and he'd bite off the flavorless ice haha.  

She also loved on Matt's uncle, Darryl.  Darryl's poor grandson, Tayce, got a bit jealous that Grandpa was holding someone else!  Poor Kassidy had to cart Tayce wherever Darryl and Henlie went.  Henlie wouldn't even go to her Grandma Carrie or me!  Well, she did come to me once I picked up a plate to get food. :)  

Mostly, we had a fun night chatting.  It was fun to see Ryan and Emily again.  I can't believe how big their kids have gotten since they were last in Utah!  It will be fun to have them close enough to hopefully see more of them at family functions :)

Saturday, June 14th, was the Art City Days Grand Parade in Springville.  For the first time since I joined pipe band, we went to Art City Days.  It is the same weekend as the Utah Scottish Festival, but I opted to let Matt just go and do his thing while we partied closer to home.

We met up with some of my family pretty much right at the beginning of the parade.  Good thing they sat closer to the end than the beginning haha.  We saw my uncle David as we were walking over there.  He brought his daughter, Rebecca, to the parade, but had to leave to take his son, Benjamin, to karate. We stopped as the flag passed at the beginning of the parade.  The lady we stopped by offered to let us sit there.  It was kind, but we let her know we had family a little further down. :) 

We found them and set up chairs.  Henlie wasn't too certain of everything at first.  In her true fashion, she just sat and observed for quite awhile.  


Rebecca was all about getting the candy and came prepared with a grocery bag to collect her goodies.  One entry was tossing otter pops, so I made her get two ;)  Henlie enjoyed her otter pop.  I don't know if hers came this way or if she bit it when I wasn't being speedy enough to help her get more, but she ended up with a hole halfway down the plastic and got her shirt all blue.  Baby wipes got most of it out, though.  Then we wrapped the pop in a wipe to contain further leaks :)




Another entry had teens handing out candy, and one of the girls was making sure all the little kids hanging back got a sucker.  She walked right up to Henlie and handed her one.  It was the sweetest thing.  That girl is an angel :)  Henlie also enjoyed her sucker :)




UVU's entries came, and I was all sorts of excited and yelling.  Elisabeth commented that I was super excited about UVU.  Of course I was!  It's my alma mater!


Most random entry goes to the guy who decided to get someone to pull a flatbed trailer with his drum set on it and play a really long drum solo.  Seriously, so random.  But the guy was pretty good, and Henlie loved it.  She loves drums.  She loves to play Daddy's drums, whether his practice pad or his drum set.  She plays his drum set more than he does :)  She got so excited when the drummer went by, and she started rocking out :)

Another favorite of Henlie's were the horse entries.  She loves horses.  She would say, "Horse!" And sometimes make horse noises.  There was also an inflatable duck in one entry, but while she told me it was a duck, she wasn't as taken with it as she was the horses.



Later in the parade, Henlie got comfortable and took Elisabeth out to the street with the other kids.  It was so cute.  We were hanging out playing and dancing to all of the musics.  One such entry was a float for a production of Tom Sawyer (which my old neighbor and Elisabeth's current neighbor is in).  We were dancing to the music, and one of the kids with flyers came over dancing too.  Yeah, I totally danced with this teenage boy haha.  Then he's like, "You have to come to my show! C'mon!" haha Needless to say, I had to accept the flyer.  After he left, Elisabeth asked if I knew him.  Nope!








One entry was handing out pretty flowers.  I happened to say, "I want a flower!" And the girl totally gave me one.  At that point, Elisabeth quoted scripture, "Ask, and ye shall receive." :)  Henlie promptly claimed it for her own.  It was nearly as tall as she was!  She had fun playing with it, but the stem snapped, so I took it back.  It is still doing well in a cup of water in my house, though.



We had fun at the parade, although it was kind of chilly.  I'm just glad I had family who went and saved us some spots!  Also, I'm really glad my cousin Elisabeth was there, because she's awesome and freaking hilarious. (No, she didn't pay be to say that, she just is!)  Ryker even carried our chairs back to the car for us.  I sure love my family :)

Henlie and I have spent a lot of time in Springville this month.  Friday, June 13th, we ventured over to the Art Museum for the Children's Arts Festival, part of the Art City Days celebrations.  It was a great price = free!  Henlie was kind of little for a lot of the activities, but we had fun.  

We stopped by the information booth and got the art scavenger hunt card and a map.  They also let us know when we were done, we could pick a prize.  We first stopped at a booth doing paper plate visors.  Henlie loves coloring, and wore her hat most of the time we were outside.  They made it kind of big on her, though :)

We wandered a bit more and found Matt's aunt Roxanne, who was at the Under the Sea booth.  They had cardboard sea creatures you put under your paper and then did crayon rubbings.  It was one of the few things Henlie could really do :)  Aunt Roxanne took a couple pictures and sent them to me :)  It was fun to see her.


After visiting with Roxanne, we colored some sunglasses (yes, real ones) and grabbed a bracelet and pen from Warren Orthodontics.  The sunglasses are quite big on her, but it was fun.  After that, Henlie colored with sidewalk chalk.  They had a whole lot of chalk and lots of sidewalk.  Henlie loved it.  She got really, colorfully into it :)



After sidewalk chalk, we went inside the museum.  Henlie liked the fountain there.  We were able to get spots for story time, too.  After stories, we headed back to the information booth to get a prize.  Crayola was a sponsor, so all of the prizes were provided by them.  Henlie picked a four-pack of crayons.  Then it was off to home :)