Our Father's Day

We were thinking about our Father's Day in May so that Greg would get his goodies in time on the ship.  And now that it is almost a month after Father's Day it seems like forever ago!  Thank you to pinterest for some cute craft ideas and printables for him.   I mean-- for a Dad--the cuter the better!   :)

 This one was for his birthday!  

 He has to wear a black t-shirt under his flight suit every day.  Thought we would make our mark on him!  Thank you to my friend Marie for this idea!

So when Father's Day finally did arrive...we definitely missed our favorite Dad!  We stayed busy with some good military friends that we don't get to see too often.  The Conlon's came over from Julian Creek(about 45 minutes from us) and spent the day with us at the beach and had dinner.  (no pics from that...too busy keeping up with all our kids i guess!?)  We loved catching up with our old San Diego friends!  She is home with 3 kids while her husband is away now too.  So it was the perfect time for us to get together so we didn't have to think about the fact that it was Father's Day without them!  And the crazy thing is that Greg and her husband keep bouncing into each other over in the middle east at random spots even though they aren't even in the same battle group or ship.  Small military world!  Greg sent me this picture of one of his Chris sitings.   I think Greg was quite jealous of Chris' mustache...something they all do at some point on every deployment.  These guys deployed together about 8 years ago and here they are still going at it!  Hard to believe.  Good friends.  We are already planning a family camping trip when they both get home.  

Greg's port visits have been so-so this deployment so far.  He was excited about a stop in Seychelles.  I thought this was a good time to share a pic he passed along to me.  It is a spec on the map off the coast of Southeast Africa.  Some well-deserved R&R off the ship!

Happy Father's Day Daddy-O!!  We miss you!