All About the Cars

Our Father's Day was all about cars. Jay loves cars, so this is a fitting tribute to him as a dad. We started the day with breakfast at Jay's favorite breakfast restaurant. Then we went to church. Conveniently our church has a Father's Day car show every year, so we stayed to check out all the cool cars. It's amazing to me that our church can actually put on such a great car show. The first year we went I thought it was going to be some rinky dink little thing where we look at a couple cars and go home. I was pleasantly surprised that first year and each year it has gotten even bigger and better.

Here is our crew (minus me of course because I'm taking the picture) in front of a cool Mustang.

The guy who owns this Model T let my kids crank it:-) He was so nice.

Those were my two favorite cars of the show, but I'm partial to Mustangs and old fashioned cars. There was an old Bel Air there that my kids commented "looks just like Flo." It's kind of funny that they relate old cars to a cartoon movie. I guess that shows what a good job the artists did. Jay and Ryan were in their element. Jay must have excitedly called, "Ryan come look at this!" 50 times or more. Some of the things you would have heard if you were with us at the car show..."This car has a parachute to slow it down because it goes so fast!"; "There's no engine in the front of this car! What do you think happened to it?! Oh, look it's in the back."; "Look how the doors on this car open!"; "Look at that big engine!"; Lily saying, "Look! A monser twuck!"

After all the excitement of the Car show I took the wheel to take the family to Jay's surprise Father's Day outing. We went to this really cool place called Ride Makerz. The best way I can describe it is like Build a Bear for cars. You pick out a chassis, wheels, rims and accessories. You even get to make a certificate that comes with a personalized license plate for your car.

Here is Jay putting his car together.

Here he helps Zach do his.

This one is Jay helping Ryan attach his monster truck accessories.

Lily loved putting these "skins" on her Mini.


Of course as soon as we got home it was time to find batteries and test out the new cars. That lasted quite a while. Then Jay's parents came over for dinner and the kids got to stay up a little late to visit which is always special for them. All in all a pretty fun day. I hope Jay enjoyed his day because we sure enjoy him being the dad in our family.

PS Just so you don't think I forgot my dad, I did call him after dinner and the kids called him while we were waiting to be seated for breakfast.