Happy Father's Day!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day!  I think that Mother's Day and Father's Day is always such a great time to thank and appreciate how extremely difficult it is being a GOOD parent.  (I stress the good, because it is easy to just be a “parent”).   I never, in a million years, thought being a good parent was as difficult as it is.   Today I want to share a little bit about our special Daddy! 

I am going to write today about the best father anyone could ask for, my husband Jon.   Jon is the best father to Aurora.  Although I always knew he would be an amazing father, he has completely exceeded all of my expectations.  I felt so upset because yesterday we didn't have a lot of time to celebrate Father's Day.   Rory was insanely crazy, we were backed up on our house duties because of our busy week both jon had at work and I had here with Rory.  

Rory and I woke up making him “Jelly doughnut muffins” and then gave him his father’s day presents.  We gave him the tie we made and showed him The matching dresses that I made for Rory and I to match.  We also made him some coasters and I barbecued for him on our weekly “grill night.”  I really wanted Jon to have a great Father's Day.  I wanted to plan a whole weekend just to let him know how much we appreciate him and how much we love him, even though I know he knows.... it is always nice to have a little remind.

 Jon has always been there for me and Rory.  It is one of the many reasons why I love him so much.  He always puts us first before anything else in his life.  Jon I have been married for almost 7 years to be seven years (next month will be our anniversary) and although we do have our ups and downs we could not be more compatible together.  Part of what makes our marriage work so much is our communication.  I could not be more happy as a wife and mother and part of that is because I have such a great husband who is there for us no matter what.   I always knew that Jon would be a great father, but I didn't know just how good!  Once Rory was born Jon just turned into super dad!  He is amazing!  I am so lucky to have him!  

Rory loves him so much!   It is so funny because when Jon is home, all Rory wants to do is spend time with her daddy!  Even when Jon is outside cutting grass Rory and I are by the window watching him waving every time he passes us!  She always wants to do what her daddy is doing...And who could blame her! I love watching the two of them play together- nothing makes me smile more than watching the two of them play!

I hope everyone had a great Father's Day.  I am very happy and lucky that Rory has the best daddy!  Jon, happy Father's Day and I love you!

Rory makes me laugh!!!

So Jon just farted really loud and Rory signed "diaper change" and said dada! Hahaha

Sick husband- Sick house

We are quite blessed with good health, aside from Rory's leg, so now that Jon, Rory and I have all been sick within the week is just dreadful!  Its so hard on everyone!

I've been trying to get everything done for him since he feels terrible.  I kind of feel overwhelmed since when he gets home from work he helps entertain Rory, so now I get to entertain her all night and let me be completely honest....there is no good way to load a dishwasher with a curious toddler!  

I didn't want to wake him up this morning by me leaving the room to go work out because I knew he had to get up early to go to the doctors anyway, so we slept in (till 6-woohoo!).  I was really hoping to get a good workout in while he napped today with Rory, but I only got 30 minutes of my bike because I couldn't stop thinking about all the things I had to do!

Now I am such a workout junkie that all I can think about is ONLY 30 minutes of riding the bike.  But hey...the floors don't sweep themselves, and I know Rory will be up any second and the last think I want is Jon to feel bad and have a gross house.  

Hopefully the worst of the sickness is behind us!

Happy Valentines Day!

Rory and I were 98% better yesterday- no dizziness, no vomiting, nothing; and it was Valentines day so we had to make a few Valentines! We made some for her friends, but didn't go out and give them to them- but can’t wait to give them out!   Rory colored on them and we cut out hearts, then put on one of her favorite Trader Joe’s Cereal Bars on them and wrote “I love you Berry Much.”

 We were pleasantly surprised by Jon coming home from work early so we could go to the playground!  Of course, Rory loves the slides more than anything else in the world, so we spent about an hour there, just going up and down the big slides and little slides hanging on the monkey bars and being tossed in the air by daddy!  (Mommy was NOT happy about it!!!)

We came home and gave each other our Valentines.  Rory got a ZhuZhu pet, she loved it when her cousin and her would play with it in St. Louis, so I had to buy her one!   It was so much fun to see Rory have such a good day!

Rory's card to her Dad

My card to Jon

Zhu Zhu Pet!

I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day!