First things first, I woke up at 3:30 AM both Friday and Saturday to watch the last two concerts of the Hope on the Stage tour live from South Korea and I REGRET NOTHING! I had a feeling all seven member of BTS would be there and they totally were. Two of them even performed with J-Hope. We are so back!

A little bit of tiredness aside, we had a really good Father’s Day Weekend, packed full of good summer fun. Friday dinner out, Saturday morning soccer, our company picnic at Elitch’s, a trip to the farmers’ market for the kids and I while Joey golfed and fajitas with my family later in the day. Also, we ended Father’s Day with a walk around our neighborhood and it was so nice 🥰🥰

Not jarring at all to go from three hours of sitting on the couch in the dark by yourself to getting your two children and up and ready and out the door but they were actually pretty good to me 😅 Lydia and I dropped Dempsey off at school and then I took her to Grandma Lori’s before heading back home to work. We all had dinner at Fire on the Mountain later on then took a field trip to our old house, which we’ve been renting out for the past five years. So surreal to be there again (and look at all of the projects Joey did over the years in there) but this time, with two kids we didn’t have when we lived there. It definitely needs some work and a deep clean though 😬

I only dozed off one time during the concert but it really was a truly epic performance and one that I think only J-Hope could pull off 🤞 Afterward, we all had pancakes for breakfast and headed off to Lydi’s second week of soccer. Nope, she’s not a fan 😂 I think she made it onto the field a couple of times but she mostly just wanted to sit in her folding chair and eat snacks. What can you do? Dempsey was so good to her and I even heard him tell her “I’m so proud of you!” afterward 🥺🥺 Headed straight to Elitch’s afterward and we had a really fun time! We rode the carousel with Grandpa Steve then headed to the kids area to traumatize Dempsey on the very first thing we rode. LOL at Lydia getting off and saying “wasn’t that fun, Buddy??” when it clearly was not for him. We did as much as we could do over there then headed to the pavilion to have lunch and visit with everyone else. The kids all got balloon animals and Dempsey got an airbrush tattoo. Lydia and I left around 1 so she (but mostly so I) could take a nap and then I had to call Joey and Dempsey back home around 4! They returned with that giant red banana that’s now living in our home with us and Dempsey named “Banana Bob.” 😂 I ran out to get a pie and a few other things for Father’s Day then made us some Hawaiian chicken sliders that were really easy and really delicious. We watched the Top Chef finale after the kids went to bed but I was basically asleep as the announced the winner so maybe I should re-watch 😬

Joey had a 7 AM tee time on Sunday, so I let the kids sleep in while I worked out then we all had breakfast — I made myself a latte with that vanilla blueberry simple syrup! — and headed to the farmers’ market. Dempsey is always on the lookout for the root beer flavored popsicle and they had it this week! Lydia only sort of made a mess eating hers 😂 It was already hot when we got back, so I let them run through the sprinkler and it truly felt like summer. Joey came home while we were eating lunch and the kids gave him their gifts 💙 I put Lydia down for her nap then we did a few things to get ready for visitors and everyone showed up around 3. Joey wanted fajitas and they turned out so good!!! Had dessert a little bit later then went for our walk and made a stop at the fairy garden 😍 It really was such a good night with our family. I hope you all had a good one too!