good morning

First off, These two. So sweet together and have become such good friends. Last night Jonah said to Zach, "Daddy, I will protect my little sister! I will scratch and hit any bad guy who tries to hurt her!" He has a plan, so don't you worry Emma!

       Early, early this morning we had breakfast at the park. The grass was soaking wet, Emma's hair was still wet from bath, I thought I could get some cute pics of Micah so I brought an shirt to throw over his "nice" shirt while he ate some strawberries. But of course those good pictures of him never happened. That boy is always on the go! Oh well. Still fun and happy I had my camera to snap the real moments. I love these three, they keep me on the go, keep me going all around. ;) never a dull moment around our house!  I've been potty training Emma this week. It has been quite a challenge! Everytime I think i'm going to give up she surprises me and I'm "forced" to keep going with it! But I'm proud of her and she is proud of herself! She lovers the big girl underwear Daddy surprised her with and she insists on getting herself dressed and refuses to wear the blue underwear that came in the pack, she says its "Jonah's underwear."

       So this week for me has been trying not to go anywhere or do too much until Emma gets the toilet down a little better :) 

Jonah started taking taekwondo this week, which he loves. He has also taken a big interest in writing and could sit at the table for an hour drawing pictures and asking me how to spell words to write. He's such a good boy. 

Micah has been challenging me lately, He's going through the "I need to be holding onto mommy every minute of the day" phase. I can't complain. It's hard and frustrating that I can't get anything done, but I love him and if he needs some special attention, that's alright with me. He also cut his two naps down to one early morning nap. That's hard too but he does go to sleep at 5:30 and sleeps till usually 6 am! We are all early risers. 

Jonah. Growing up so fast. He got these new sketchers while his cousins were here visiting and he wears them everywhere!!! He thinks they are the bomb. They light up, So of course they are cool!

And Miss Emma. See that squid or jelly fish in her hand? It's a pool toy my mom gave her a week ago and it's been in her hand ever since! She freaks out if she doesn't have it! She even sleeps with it. Who would of thought something like that would be such a hit!

Micah is a dairy free little boy and much happier now! Glad we figured that problem out. He is so funny and favorite thing to do is climb on his big brother and sister and race across the room. He also loves to be chased! 

And like I said, potty training is rough. Emma came down the slide and her leggings were soaked. So she strips down to her undees and we all walk home. Good thing it was 6 am and no one was around!

It's been a happy summer!

Zoo

We went to the zoo forever go with Salesi and Kaci, I think it was memorial day, it was hot, crowded, and lots of fun! Here's our trip: 

daddy's day

Sunday was a special day for Daddy. Jonah had the idea of decorating the house and making daddy a card. He made him the cutest card too, and tried so hard to write inside all by himself. In the card he wrote, "Daddy, I love you. You are my best friend. Come to church and I will sing you a song and then we can come home and play together. You're friend, Jonah. "

We made Daddy a special breakfast. Orange Rolls and peaches. Yes, I used the Pillsbury dough. But hey. When Church starts at 8:30 a.m. that's the best I can do!

Emma picked Daddy some flowers and woke him up . It was so cute to see how excited Jonah and Emma got to surprise Daddy. They sure love him!

I just hung up a tiny banner. But Jonah still counted that as a decorting!

My parents were driving home from Utah on Fathers Day and ended up getting home early so we decided to just make dinner a family affair and have my sister and Brother in law over as well. Glad I had enough food for everyone and it was so fun to celebrate with all the dads together. I made Zachary's  favorite meal growing up, which I never make, Good ol' Roast and mashed potatoes! yum! It was actually really yummy too! Probably not as good as his mom's but I tried my best to atleast make the meat tender and the gravy good. Thanks to my sister Kaci for taking all these pictures of our dinner!(And helping me cook too ;)

And for dessert we had razzleberry pie and ice cream. Also Zach's favorite! It's funny to me that Fathers day seems to be celebrated with food and Mother's day is celebrated with flowers.., Am i weird that I think that's funny? yes. ok, moving on!

Micah was so happy to see his Papa again. I wanted to post this picture So Zach's parents can see how much Micah now loves the rocking horse they gave the kids for Christmas! 

It's very sad, we didn't actually take a picture of Zach or Salesi and my Dad on Father's day. I saw this one, I guess kaci took it and it is the only one of all three! So here they are, the great fathers, dishing up their yummy dinner. Sorry you got blurred out dad!

Emma and the flowers she picked for her daddy.

Jonah, Emma, and Micah are SO LUCKY to have such an awesome daddy. He really is the best with them. I didn't expect Zach to be home on Sunday because he was supposed to be on call at the hospital. But I guess when they were passing the call schedule around at work they asked him if he wanted Father's day or Mother's day off and he responded that he wanted Mother's day off and would work Father's Day. His co-workers asked why he would want Mother's Day and not Father's Day off and he said 

"Because I want to be home and celebrate my wife!"

 I guess all the ladies in the room thought that was the sweetest thing and one woman said,

 "Now that's a man! You let me know when you and your wife split up."

and Zach replied,

"Umm.. ya, That's never going to happen. we're going to be together forever."

HAHA! They must have thought he was so sweet that someone else took his call shift. I'm so happy we could celebrate father's day with him.  I've always known that Zachary was meant to be a father. He just has that tender spirit about him and he cares so much. I love how involved he is with the kids and is always trying to find new ways to teach them and help them feel loved. Jonah right now is especially attached to his daddy and is always telling Zach, "Daddy you're my BEST FRIEND!..Daddy, show me your HUGE MUSCLES! ..Daddy I want to work at the hospital and take care of people too!"

And my dad and Father in Law! Both such great Dads! My dad has always been there for me and never forgets to tell me that I'm loved. It means the world to me that we now get to live so close to my Mom and Dad and Jonah  has become so close with his Papa. He is so patient with Jonah and calls me almost every weekend asking if he can take Jonah somewhere.  And my father in law is so wonderful and I'm so grateful for him and the way he cares about Zach, me and the kids. He has always been there for us and especially for Zach. I'm grateful that Zach is so close to his father and can call him and talk and always receives wise council from him whenever he needs it. We miss Zach's parents so much!

We sure love daddy!