Father's Day 2017

Yesterday we had a great day celebrating Justin for Father's Day. He did a Father's Day trail run in the morning and then after he got home we went out to breakfast. The girls were hilarious. They ate soooo much food. Breakfast was super yummy and then we got some shopping/errands done after. Once we got home, Justin ended up going with my mom and sister's to see Cars 3 with Everly and Aspen and I went to the grocery store. Thank God for Fry's childcare!!! Sunday evening my family came over for some pool time and we had baked ziti for dinner. Everly is doing really good without her puddle jumper in the pool and getting more and more confident. We had a great weekend and I hope Justin enjoyed it too. He definitely deserves it!

Presents from Aspen

 

cheese!

Okay that's enough.

Aspen at they grocery store childcare playing video games and the sheet Everly filled out about her dad.

 

Justin made this couch!

Ev and Nora

Ted and Cam and a little Mae.

Father's Day Craft

Last Saturday we took advantage of the free Lakeshore Learning craft and made a Father's Day card for Justin. Me and Ev worked on the card while Justin chased Aspen around the store. They always have some of the toys out for kids to play with and try out and all of the kids love this. They could play in there for hours if we let them. The father's day card was a paper plate cut to look like a UFO and then you decorate it. Ev did the coloring and put the jewels on and I made the alien. I think it turned out pretty cute. My sister and the boys got there shortly after and Aspen tried to help her and the boys. She loves following along her aunty Kim. The only way I could get Ev out of the store was to tell her we could come back again next weekend so we may be there again shortly!

Good work!

The final product and a wiped out Aspen.

Happy Father's Day 2016

All the Arizona Dad's got real lucky this year as we had 120 degree temps on Father's Day. I hope Justin still had a good day despite the heat. We had some birthday celebrations in the morning so we celebrated Father's day with a pizza dinner at Mellow Mushroom. We haven't been there in forever and I love that crust so much! Of course, cold beers were also involved. The NBA finals game was on but we don't really care about basketball. It was a little shocking to get in the car at 7:30 p.m. after dinner and it was still 115 out but hopefully we get some monsoon rains in soon (so then I can complain about the humidity). We got Justin a bunch of little small gifts and several homemade gifts and he was already wearing his new sneakers so I think we did good. He was also able to sneak in a kid free trip to home depot on Sunday so that probably made his day, haha! We love Justin and all that he does for our family. We definitely made out in the dad department! Happy Father's Day!

 

Home Depot Kids Workshop: Father's Day

The Home Depot Kids Workshop project for June was a Father's Day present so Saturday morning Everly and I went to Home Depot by ourselves. The project was atTrophy cell phone holder. It was pretty easy and Everly did really well with the hammering and painting. She even kept the painting simple with only one color which is shocking. She was really sweet and kept hugging me and I really love spending one on one time with her and I think Justin will actually be able to use this on his desk at work.

She only hammered my finger once!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to Justin! This picture is from earlier this week when Everly insisted on riding like a cowboy and Aspen thought it was hilarious. Justin is one of "those" dads. The good ones. He does so much for the girls and you can tell they love him. Life can definitely get hectic with two kids but he keeps things sane in a house of 3 crazy girls (4 if you count Minnie Bell who is a whole different level of crazy). We absolutely love that we get him home every weekend and we hope he enjoys it too. We are pretty lucky to have ended up with this guy and we hope he knows it and has a nice relaxing Father's Day. Love you, Papa!

Father's Day 2014

I think we have been reflecting a little bit more on parenting recently since we are getting closer and closer to adding another baby to the mix. Last week I heard this story on NPR with a dad blogger from this blog. It was really interesting and he had some very interesting points about fatherhood. One of the things he said was that although dad's should be celebrated for doing their best, women have a big impact on fatherhood and that they shouldn't be putting fathers on a pedestal for doing mundane parenting tasks. I thought that was interesting because although I don't think that I say this all of the time to Justin, I know I often brag about how awesome my husband is to others, especially in the fatherhood department. I do want to celebrate him. He is a great father and husband. I actually sent him this article on buzzfeed yesterday about stupid things that husband's do and told him he actually only does like one of the things on there! Sometimes I don't really know how I got so lucky (I know a lot of not great fathers/husbands out there). Did I know he was going to be a great husband and a great father when we got married? Not that I can specifically recall, but I like to think that I just have good instincts and standards and that's how it worked out. Everly absolutely adores Justin. Just this morning she wanted him to help her get up on the potty and not me. If she wakes up and he is downstairs, she immediately asks, "where is papa?" Where some moms might get sad about that I really don't. I am glad that she loves him so much. It will be interesting when she has to share him with a new sister but I can't wait to see it. We are some lucky ladies to have such a great papa in our lives. We didn't do anything too crazy for father's day. I got him his knives sharpened and we went to breakfast with his sister's family. I also got to see my own father as we celebrated my nephew's 3rd birthday later that evening which was nice as well. It is really cute that even though Everly doesn't see her Grandpa nearly as much as her Grandma, she still gets really excited when he is coming over. Happy Father's Day to Justin and my Dad and all of the wonderful Dad's out there. We love you!

The moment he became a father.

 

 

Happy Father's Day

Today is a very special day because we get to celebrate how lucky we are to have Justin in our lives. From before Everly was even born, Justin was an amazing father. He worked hard to get her nursery ready and did everything he could to make me comfortable while I carried her. Now that she is around. It is no different. Everly may not know it yet, and she may very well dislike us when she is a teenager, but she is so lucky to have Justin as a father. He loves her so much and would do anything for her and we love him equally.

The moment they met. 

In other words, I do want to say Happy Father's Day to my own father today. To keep it short, we have gone through a lot. However, my dad is a genuinely kind man and he has taught me a lot about faith. We are in a good place now and I can't imagine not having my father in my life.  We went to dinner last week because he is in Japan right now for work but he knows we love him. Happy Father's Day to all of the father's out there!