Happy Father’s Day!

Celebrated our favorite guy today!  He is the most amazing Dad, a selfless provider, and the kids' favorite!  I am so grateful for the way he leads our family, and I am truly blessed to have raised our babies over the past 23 years with him!

Happy Father's Day, Papa Bear!  We love you so!

Father's Day

On Sunday, we celebrated our absolute favorite guy!

Bryan is truly the best Dad (and husband!), and we are so grateful he's ours!

After church, we had a bratwurst feast and watched a war movie.  According to Bryan, it doesn't get much better!  We love him so!

Bryan's Birthday

Last Wednesday, we celebrated Bryan's 40th birthday!

He has said for the past few years, that he wanted the theme for his 40th birthday to be Mike Gundy's famous rant, "I'm a man!  I'm 40!" so that's what we did!

One of our traditions is that you get to pick what restaurant you want to go to, and this year, Bryan chose one of our favorite burger places!

Once we got home, we lit the candles for his birthday bread pudding.

Because there were 40 candles, it was more than a one man job!

One of our other traditions is a homemade meal, and this year, Bryan picked pork ragu and bruschetta.  Bryan and I made it together, and it was delicious!

It was so fun celebrating Bryan!  He's the absolute best, and we hope he had the best 40th birthday!

Happy 40th Bryan!

Today, this cute boy turned 40!

"I'm a man!  I'm 40!"

--Mike Gundy

--Bryan Crowder

Happy 40th Birthday to the absolute greatest guy we know!  We love you, and we are so grateful God made you!

 

Father's Day

This year marks Bryan's 20th year being a father.  And for 20 years, he's been the absolute best Dad to our kids.

We celebrated Papa Bear by grilling a ton of sausage and making one of his favorite pies.  He's truly the best Dad ever!

Bryan's Birthday!

Since Bryan was out of town on his actual birthday, we decided to celebrate it afterwards while Sarah was home.

We actually celebrated with two of our traditional home cooked meals!  The first night was charcuterie

and blackberry coffee cake for dessert.

Then, we celebrated with pasta braciole,  bruschetta, 

and oatmeal cookie sandwiches!

We love Papa Bear so much, and it was so fun to celebrate him!

Boys' Trip

Last month, Bryan and Jack took a trip to Louisiana and Mississippi with Gus and Bryan's Dad to celebrate his 65th birthday.

While there, they visited the WWII museum.

We actually visited this museum a few years ago on a family vacation, but Bryan and Jack loved it so much, that they wanted to go back.

I don't know if anyone knows more about WWII than Jack!

After their day at the museum, they went fishing on the Mississippi.

Jack was so excited to go!

This is the fish he caught.

Then, he caught a couple of sharks!

So did Bryan!

They had a great time on their boys' trip, but I sure was happy to have them back home!