father's day photo shoot.

I wanted to get a photo of Ben with the kids on Father's Day but Oliver immediately ran away and Simon was asleep. I always want to play around with my camera settings and experiment with different lighting but I rarely have a willing subject (aside from food). The girls started climbing their favorite tree in our yard and I was able to get some shots of them having fun.

These kids are pretty lucky to have this guy for a dad.

 The boys in plaid.

Simon's sad but cute frowny face.

father's day with a quick stop at the ER

Father's Day was a simple day filled with a few food requests from Ben, hanging out as a family, and a quick trip to the ER to fix a case of nursemaid's elbow.

The kids helped make biscuits for Ben's breakfast request, bacon & egg sandwiches.

Sunday evening dessert was this amazing salted caramel cheesecake pie (recipe from here).

A little quality father/son time in the ER. Ben is now trained to fix this problem should it occur again. (Miraculously nobody was at the ER and they were done within about 30 minutes. I have never spent less than 3 hours at the ER.)

And somehow I made it through the day with no pictures of Ben. Just the food he consumed. But let it be known that he is the best. The kids go crazy when he gets home from work. And cry when they wake up in the morning and discover he has already left. He's definitely got the father thing down.