I’m glad that Peru has a lot of the same nationally recognized holidays as you do in the States. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day being the most recent ones. We had a great Father’s Day weekend and even started celebrating how great of a Daddy we have around here a little early. Like last Thursday. I asked Jake what he wanted to make Daddy for Father’s Day. He said, “A paper tree.” Okaaay. I’m thinking, How am I going to either get around this one or figure out how to make this doable? Well, we found an idea in a craft book (borrowed from Alison just in time) and we made it happen. We made a paper palm tree! Daddy loves palm trees. I think they are his favorite kind of tree. For the trunk we used a Pringles can, and for the palm leaves we traced Jake and Derek’s hands on green paper and cut them out. Inside the trunk/can we put candy, because Daddy loves candy. Jakob helped write a note for him and he signed his name! He’s so big, it’s hard to believe he can already write his name! And Derek left his mark, too. :)
Jake LOVES to make things and had so much fun with this project that he couldn’t hold it in. So Daddy got his present on Thursday before the big day. We love you, Daddy!
Yesterday we went out to eat for our Father’s Day lunch. Mark went with us and we had a good time and ate some amazingly yummy food at Benihana. Yes, there is one here and we are very thankful!
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Stacy,
I’ve been meaning to write you! Love the pictures of you all—Everyone looks great! Happy Dad’s Day to you,Wes! And how clever!!! Love the palm tree! I would have been “stumped” to figure out how to make a palm tree! How clever to use Jake and Derek’s hand prints for the palm leaves–loved it! I’m glad Mark was with you all–know he enjoyed it! Hope everything is going really, really well. I keep Edgar and Joel–and little Donna? and Gracella?? in my/our prayers. Love and Hugs to you all, Susan