Ah Father’s Day…the day that we let daddy do what daddy normally does without complaining (did I just say that?) ha! But seriously…our daddy is wonderful!!! …and to celebrate…we did what we always do – Prairie Fest awesome-ness and letting the big man sleep in late and call all the shots!

Thursday night, we had our annual (although smaller) adult night at Pfest to listen to whatever cover band they hired for the year. This year’s chart topper was an electronica 80’s band. Good times…until the lead singer broke out into a falsetto version of Girls Just Want to Have Fun (note to all bands: dudes should not sing chick songs!)

Fast forward to Friday – the all-you-can-ride-for-$20 day. In tow this year: the Eloe boys as always (usually Will B joins in, but he was away). We saw MANY friends per usual and a great time was had by all (especially since some of those friends took little Brady off to ride the “I’m-too-short-for-the-big-boy-rides” rides). Friday evening, we had a bunch of friends over for chorizo burgers and then headed back with the kids to listen to another fun cover band for a few hours.

Here are the Houck and Eloe boys ready to tackle P-fest! Lunch consisted of foot-long corndogs for the boys and a lovely Cuban sandwich for me and Lisa!

Aiden, Logan and Adam on the hang glider

I posted this on facebook with the caption “under the table and dreaming” – this ride always reminds me of the Dave Matthew’s Band cover of the same name. I didn’t even realize until later that the child with his arm out at the top center of this picture is Logan! I guess he always knows where I am (I was sitting on the grass beside the ride trying to get artist shots!) 

Ah that Aiden…always “photo bombing” with his goofy faces!!

Brian requested that, for father’s day, the boys help him plant a “salsa” garden on the side of the house. He built this frame the weekend before and Aiden helped him set it up (not pictured). Brady and Logan are not so much into the gardening thing.

On Sunday morning, I went out to get breakfast fixings while Bri slept in. I bought him 4 different kinds of tomatoes including heirloom & two kinds of peppers. We also planted the basil plant we had in our kitchen from my mother’s day dinner and bought more herbs plus hot peppers and cucumbers (which Aiden begged us to get) later in the day.

This was the first year we went downtown to watch the duck race. Anyone can buy these ducks and, if yours comes in first, you get $500. There is also some convoluted way to win $10,000. This year, the 1st place duck won the $10,000….sadly, it wasn’t ours. But…the race was fun to watch, especially since the river is high right now from all the recent rain.

The boys had fun helping pick ducks out of the river and placing them in big containers for next year’s race.

 

Some of these little fellas weren’t lucky enough to make it to the finish line in tact

After the races, we went over to David and Diana’s house for more Father’s Day festivities (which included steaks…obviously). Brian built bows and arrows from PVC pipe and wooden dowels similar to ones that we had seen on sale at Prairie Fest – HUGE hit. Even on his “day off”, he always shows his love by going the extra mile for our boys!!