Celebrating Father's Day

I just adore these two.



I mean, how could you not??



When I asked Nick how he'd like to spend Father's Day, he said he wanted to spend it doing something special with his dad, Shiloh's Pop Pop. So we came up with the idea to visit Huber's to eat lunch, possibly pick some fruit, and just enjoy the beautiful, out-of-the-city scenery.

After church, we headed to Huber's where we enjoyed a yummy (and plentiful!) lunch of fried chicken, baked ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, summer salad, green beans, corn, dumplins, and of course their delectable fried biscuits with apple butter. We all ate way too much! Then we walked around a bit, browsed the shops, and went to feed the ducks and fish some of our leftovers.















We then asked Shiloh whether she wanted to go pick blueberries, raspberries, or peaches OR go feed the animals in the barnyard, and she opted for the latter. So we hopped on the wagon to the barnyard with our field corn in hand.





Julianna was the lady who drove us out to feed the animals. Since it was such a HOT day (92 degrees and who knows what the heat index was), there weren't many other people crazy enough to want to go do this. So she let us have as many containers of field corn as we wanted (compared to the typical one-per-person rule), and we ended up spending at least an hour out there feeding the animals and visiting with her. She is the wife of Joe Huber the 4th, who also joined us later and brought us all bottled waters. We sat under a shade tree, talked, hung out. Nick said it felt like we were getting the "VIP" treatment. :) We did have a great time!







Eeyore:



Me, trying to feed "Mooey" the cow. I ended up getting it all up her nose.



Sally the Alpaca:




Thirsty girl downing her water!





By this time, we were so hot and exhausted that we decided to cool off in the Soda Pop Shoppe (hello, air conditioning!!) with some ice cream and milkshakes.

Shiloh chose the Superman ice cream.



Then she entertained us all with some lovely piano music.





This was a new technique she was trying out:



Hot, sweaty, and ready for the ride home.



Overall, we had a great afternoon. Most importantly, Nick and Pop Pop felt loved and celebrated on their special day.