happy father's day!!!

sunday was a beautiful day in washington! the last forever and a day it has been rainy, rainy, rainy and cold, cold, cold, but sunday the sun was shining and it was in the 60's! we started father's day off with shawn's favorite breakfast, then headed off to church where gabe and shawn participated in a father's day competition (they came in second place -- i think that just about killed both of them!), and then we headed home for lemon and garlic shrimp and scallop linguini!! we dined out on the back patio--just had to soak up the sun while we had it!! after dinner and dessert, shawn opened his gifts and then the fox family did our usual sunday afternoon ritual - the siesta! waking up all refreshed, we headed back out into the sunshine for a bike ride!! for those of you that have not been to our house, let me paint you a little picture! there is not an inch of road around our house that is not a hill-so in order to go on a bike ride you will have to, at some point, ride up a hill!! well, we opted to tackle the hill first, so up we went! while shawn and i have pretty awesome bikes - decked out with all sorts of gears and what not, but poor gabe is just stuck with a normal kids bike! he hoofed it up that hill though, luckily he has shawn's competitive genes and there was no way mom was making up that hill and he wasn't!! grady enjoyed the bike ride without even breaking a sweat - ah! it must be nice on the back of dad's bike! but being our little grady, about half way up the hill he started yelling how thirsty he was! after riding around for about 30 minutes and stopping off to play at gabe's school on the playground came the best part of the bike ride -- the super speed trip back down that daunting hill!! whee!!