FAther's Day 2015

My Dad's Name is? Daddy

My Dad is ? years old? 50 1/2

My Dad weights ? pounds? fifty dollars

My Daddy's job is? work and teach people about God

My Daddy laughs when ? when I say funny jokes

My Dad likes to do this in his free time? play with me

My Daddy is really good at? work and making me laugh

My favorite meal my Daddy makes is? chicken and mac n cheese and bagels

My Dad always says? jokes and I love you Svea and Kieran

My favorite thing to do with my Daddy is? play tag with him

I love my Dad because? because he makes jokes and he looks funny when he takes off his glasses and he's smart

My Daddy loves me because? because I make accidents some times and he still loves me and I'm very special

Happy Father's Day Dan.  We love you and are so thankful that you are so good and amazing with our two kids!  They are so lucky to have a Dad like you.

A couple more fun questions!

What is Dad's favorite color? blue

Dad is smart because? he is a big guy

Dad's hair is? shaving

What is your favorite summer thing to do with Dad? go to the park

Weekend Visitors

 Papa and Lynn came for a visit not last weekend, but the weekend before.  We had an amazingly warm sunny day on Saturday and spent a large chunk of the day outside playing in the sun, going to the park, etc. We moved our swing set to underneath the trees in the backyard so that when the leaves arrive the kids will have nice shade to play under. I'm trying to make our backyard a "fun place to be"! 

 Papa brought Svea a real starfish and light-up water globe.  She was enamored with them and since they are studying the ocean at Rita's house she brought her starfish for show and tell one day. 

Look at that crazy curly haired girl:)  I made this pic black and white because the kids had slight runny noses on this weekend and her poor skin under her nose was rubbed raw a little bit.  You can see Dan's head in the back right of this photo.  He was working on finishing painting our kitchen cabinets, trim, etc.  It had brightened up our kitchen and we love it.

 

Thanks for visiting Papa and Lynn...it was a long six months since we'd seen you and we glad you are home! They were so excited when I told you they were coming.  It's so fun to hear Kieran talk about people and how he's excited for them to come.  "Papa coming to visit us"  "I want to see Papa".  Fun! 

Mom, Dads, and a Milestone birthday!

We've had just a few things going on lately:)  Just a few:)  Dan got me a picture frame last year with the kids holding these letters to spell Mom.  The next collection of pictures is my attempt at getting my final shots to update it!

 I LOVE these pictures and think they are so precious.

 As you can tell getting a good shot of Kieran didn't work out so well, although he still looks pretty cute.  I ended up putting Svea in all of them and I'll frame a nice big picture of Kieran for my office next year.

 Father's Day we spent apart.  Dan had synod assembly and the kids and I headed to Jamestown since he was going to be gone anyway and my Dad had a big surgery on Monday in Bismarck. On Sunday Dan and I actually met in Moorhead to look at a few new houses.  That would be trip #5, but hopefully there won't be too many more.  XXXfingers! We showered Dad with a card, a gift, and plenty of hugs and kisses when we got home. My Dad's surgery went well and he is slowly recovering.  He can't bear any weight on his right hip/leg for six weeks so I'm sure it'll be a trying time.

 I'll need to update his photo album too now to spell the word DAD! We had a nice time in Jamestown!  I just love running around their yard and just being there:)  Thank you to my Mom and Ron (he is also recovering from surgery) for watching the kids for me when I looked at houses and visited my Dad in Bismarck.

 Speaking of, check out this fabulous Dad.  You know he's 40 now you know:) We also celebrated Dan's 40th birthday this past Wednesday.  In the chaos of our life it wasn't celebrated well, but I may still have something up my sleeve:)  I did, however, get a WIN with the birthday treats I made.  Just thinking about them will add calories to your body. In a muffin tin you put cookie dough, on top of that a full size Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, and then on top of that chocolate brownie batter.  You bake them for about 20 minutes.  They were awesome! Happy Birthday Daddy...we love you so much:)

I love this picture of Dan and Svea.  He was taking her to the grocery store as she LOVEs to come with us. She was a little excited:) 

 

We still don't have a house yet, but we've got something worked out for Dan to stay somewhere until at least August 1st.  I'll stay in Jamestown with the kids and we are praying we can get into a house by then.  Extra prayers please.  We'd love to transition our kids just one time to the struggle of entering a new environment. We are trusting God that whether we rent for awhile or own that we will have a safe and happy place to call home.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Sorry this birthday post is so late, but the evenings have been long and hard.  Svea is on a sleeping strike.  If she doesn't nap then she's a bear and crashes at night, but if she does nap she is wired until 9-10 at night.  She's not sleeping crazy late in the morning so I don't know what is going on.  On top of that we have a teether too.  Kieran's top tooth just won't pop through and last night he was up for over an over from 10-11 crying and screaming.  Poor guy!  I feel so bad for him:)

 The kids and I messed around outside in the morning.  Here are some shots of Aldon Park and biking. Kieran looks out of it basically because he still had a mild fever with whatever virus he had.

 Dan's birthday was unique, powerful, and fun.  We woke up to a call that someone was dying and he raced to the hospital.  As Dan was comforting the family as to what she was going through right now she slipped away.  It was a powerful moment and a not expected way to start his birthday, but good.

 Dan and I worked out over lunch time and the kids napped decently if I remember correctly!  JackieKayla came to babysit and we raced up to St. Cloud for a nice dinner and 45 minutes of shopping together.  We haven't done that just the two of us for a LONG time! It was fun!

 We ate tons of leftover Father's Day Dairy Queen cake and overall I think Dan said it was a birthday he'd never forget.  Sounds like it was a success to me:) Happy 39th Birthday sweetie!

Father's Day 2013

Father's Day 2013 was a super special and awesome day at our house!  We got to see Dan before he left for church that morning and Svea ran up and told him Happy Father's Day and gave him a big hug.  She sat so nice for the children's sermon and gave him another huge hug at church. She kept asking me so nicely if she could go to the toy room.  Each time I said, "not yet" and she'd sit for another minute patiently waiting until she asked again quietly.

 We had corn dogs for lunch (one of Dan's favorites).  Dan and I got a workout in during nap/rest time.  We enjoyed some time outside, ate Zorbas for supper, had peanut butter cup Dairy Queen cake, and just enjoyed each other and celebrated Dad!

 These two kids are so lucky to have him.  They love him and he loves them more! Thank you for knowing and appreciating just how very lucky you are! Happy Father's Day Dan....I hope you enjoyed your day.  We sure did!

Just so you know Svea IS laughing here.  If you didn't know or know her you might think she is yelling or something:)  She WAS SO excited about eating cake!  "I share with you with that"!  Raise your hand if you've ever heard that phrase once, or twice, or a hundred times:)

Father's Day 2012

 Happy Father's Day to Dan and all of our Dads!  We were able to skype today with Papa and Grandpa Ron, but we couldn't get a hold of Grandpa D.  We'll have to try again:) We hope you all had a great day!  A bummer thing about Father's Day is Dan will almost always have to work:(  He made it home by about noon though today and we had a great day together just hanging out at home.  Tomorrow is Dan's birthday and we're just excited to get a chance to spend it together again on Dan's day off. I'll post more pictures later this week from the past week, but here's a sneak peak of Pastor Paul's ordination service day.  Svea wore the cutest little red dress.  Below are my two loves reading a new book Svea got for her Daddy!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to Dean, Mark, and Ron!!!

Hope you have a great day!