Week in Review: Summer Daze (and we were on tv!)

Happy last (!) Friday of June! 

It's that time of year when the days roll into a summer daze and I can't remember much unless I have photographic evidence, so that's how this post shall be written.

Last Saturday morning had Maggie and I attending a Spin class, which was fun and sweaty:

Throwback to our first workout class together, when she was still shorter than me:

Dang, I'm going to miss my gym buddy.

Maggie babysat on Saturday afternoon and brought this cutie-patootie to Mass with her, which was so fun!  She did great, barely made a peep, and didn't even cry or run after Maggie when Maggie had to go up to lector.  Can I be a grandmother soon, pleeeeease?  I mean, after they find love and marriage, of course.

We celebrated Father's Day by running in our town's Father's Day 5k - well, I don't like to race anymore and JP was away at a wedding, and Maggie hates running in general, but the rest of the boys did it for Team Ice Cream Cottage:

Then we went to an outdoor restaurant on the water for lunch with the kids who weren't working/wedding-ing:

And wrapped up the evening by going out to dinner with the Xander and Maggie, our day shift workers:

The kids chipped in to take Phil golfing (in the future) and to a casino, where everybody lost money:

Heehee.

It's been the first full week of summer for our kiddos, so they are doing some summery things!  The youngest four went to see Toy Story 5 and said it was really good, and that Phil and I would like it because we hate screen time for kids.  We do, it's true:

Declan and Brendan also attended Track and Field Camp at Phil's highschool and had a great time.  They were very vocal about which camps they hated last year and never wanted to do again, but this one made the cut!

Declan had Phil make a slo-mo video of him vs. the leaf blower, and I think the leaf blower won:

Brendan has been learning some Michael Jackson dance moves:

The littles got summer buzzcuts from Eamon and then I saw them sitting in front of our Mary grotto.  Looks like they were praying, but nope just shucking corn for dinner!  Maybe praying too, who am I to judge?

I use to swoon over Catholic boys who wore the scapular, and now I am raising them :)

Maggie won another outside scholarship, and attended a little awards ceremony.  She has now won more money in outside scholarships than she owes for her Freshman year at Franciscan - woohoo!  God is good, all the time.  All the time, God is good.

The Ice Cream Cottage appeared on the tv show, Chronicle and we all yelled and laughed and cringed seeing ourselves on tv:

 

Andrew's bestie, Smiles is visiting for the weekend

Speaking of the Cottage, we added a non-alcoholic Mudslide to our menu, and introduced two special flavors that have been wildly popular:

Raspberry Cookie Crumble:

Fluffer-Nutter-Butter:

And that's a weekly roundup!  Hard to believe that July 4th is coming up next week!  I hope you are all able to check things off your summer bucket list, I know we've got a lot to catch up on over here...we haven't even had a real beach day yet!