We have been pretty excited to celebrate Father's Day at our house. So excited that we have been ready since the middle of May. Jeff's presents were hiding in a closet for quite awhile and I am shocked beyond belief that Heidi did not spill the beans. She has been so cute about keeping that secret. I got up with the girls and we made Jeff's favorite breakfast--German Pancakes with buttermilk syrup. Of course we made him one of his favorite dinners and apple crisp for dessert as well. Savanna is teething and was really not in the mood for pictures....or anything else for that matter. We hope that tooth pops in sooner rather than later.
Heidi could not wait for her dad to wake up. Jeff isn't trying to take a selfie here, he is holding something up to try to get Savanna to look at least somewhat happy. Jeff was pretty excited about the ice cream maker we got him and can't wait to try it out for family night. He has been talking about how fun it would be for awhile now and when I gave the girls suggestions of what we could do for Father's Day, Heidi was more than a little excited about that one. She kept saying, "That would be a perfect present. Dad loves ice cream." She also made him a little map holder at story time one week and she was so, so, so excited to see his face when he saw it. She insisted it go in a special spot in the trailer so we had it for camping. I really think she was more excited about Father's Day and making her daddy happy than she is about pretty much any other holiday with the exception of maybe Christmas.
We tried to get a decent picture of daddy and his girls (probably the last one before he is trying to hold three little girls), but Savanna was still not cooperating. Heidi was trying to make her smile by making funny noises but Savanna was too busy trying to chew her book to even notice what Heidi was doing.
Good picture or not, I am so unbelievably, beyond words, grateful my girls have such a great man and example for their daddy. If only every child in the world could have a dad like Jeff. Jeff gets up at the crack of dawn to go into work on the early bus. Not because he has to, but because he can't get all of his work done in a regular day. He does this so he can leave on time because he doesn't like getting home late and missing one minute of time with his girls. He comes home dead tired and doesn't say one word about how tired he is or how hard and stressful his day was. He won't even sit for a second. He immediately starts throwing the girls around, asking them about their day, and telling them how much he loves them and missed them. He reads to them. He gets excited about what they are excited about. He laughs at the funny things they do. When they are playing there is never a shortage of laughter...from all 3 of them. He dances with them. He loves having them work with him on projects and is so incredibly patient even though whatever he is doing takes three times as long with them at his side. He lights up when he talks about them. He is a good example and feels it is so important to teach them the gospel. There really are a million things that make him such a great dad and I feel like in spite of all of my shortcomings as a mother, they will be okay because they have him as their dad. Happy, happy Father's Day, Jeff. We hope you know how much we love and appreciate all you do!
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