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Father's Day

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Happy Father's Day, Scott Simpson! We had a fun day celebrating you, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 

It started off as a lazaroni day catching up on sleep, work and laundry while the girls had some screentime and played in the piles of (clean) laundry. We headed out to a local chinese place for lunch but got sidelined by signs for a new dumpling restaurant in the same complex and we just HAD to try it! It was interesting and pretty yummy - it was the first time I've ever seen dumplings panfriend in an entire sheet where you can actually eat the "paper" that it's fried on. The girls loved it.

Then we headed to the boat. Sadly, the power somehow ran out so the battery was dead on the boat. It ended up being okay because that gave Scott plenty of time to wash the boat (his favorite thing to do!) while we let the fridge get cold again. We made it out onto the lake for about an hour and it was really crowded. The gorgeous weather today (80s, but windy out on the water) brought everyone out!

For dinner, we walked from the boat up to a new Ethan Stowell restaurant called Super Bueno. I have recently picked up saying "no bueno" from a coworker and I have a feeling I'm going to be saying that "super buneo" now a lot instead! Anyway, the restaurant had new takes on Mexican and also had a kids playarea that kept the girls pretty entertained while Scott and I sat back and sipped on our Red Jalapeno Margaritas (which were delicious!). 



telling secrets
Bubbles!

Waiting to surprise Daddy!

He's almost here!! 

Captain Daddy.

Watermelon and Mint salad with poprocks (!!) and chili. It was pretty good.
The best though, were the churros and dulche de leche dip. The coconut lime sorbet was pretty good too. 


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