We love our Daddy!

There once was a boy...

Who fell in love with a girl :)

And after a few years they had a beautiful family!

He is such a great daddy!  We wanted to be share how much we love him and how awesome he is!


Here are some of the things the kids said in their "all about Daddy" sheet:


What does Daddy Love?  Talmage:  his family; Grant:  apple pie; Sandra:  kids; Mhari:  flowers


How would you describe your daddy?  T:  happy, nice, loving;  G:  He has blond hair; S:  I like him;  M:  carry Daddy


There are lots of other good ones, but Mhari is at that age where she is really funny so I'm going to share some of hers:


What is Daddy's favorite thing to do with you:  eat vanilla wafers.


I love Daddy because:  he eats granola bars.


How do you know Daddy loves you:  Kiss you


How does Daddy know you love him:  hug me and squeeze me.


I love pictures of Jeff with the kids.  Some years there are more photos than others - partly because of his busy school schedule.  These pictures are very sweet to me.  Some of them are taken during busy school times when he took some time to play with the kids (or nap with them).  The time seems to be going by so fast.  I love this man, and I love that he's the father of our children!  He's great with them!

  

Happy Father's Day Hunny!  We love you so much!

Hiding our Stripes

When we first moved into our house, almost 5 years ago, we has the boys in the upstairs bedroom.  Since it was our first house and a boy room I had such fun decorating/painting it.  I had a crazy idea of putting stripes on the wall.  My mother-in-law liked the idea and together we created our striped awesome boys room!

Over time the room became a toy room, our master bedroom, and now our office/sewing room.  Let's just say that Jeff was never a fan of the stripes and it was time for them to go.  Since we are now using it as an office space we decided it needed to be more professional.

Here we go....

Blue Stripes :)

Red Stripes

The blue stripes against the red wall

With being such a dark color we had to use primer to cover it all up...


And after 3 coats it looked like this:
(same corner as above photo)

Very white 

Luckily Jeff agreed to spray the tan on so I just had to tape up everything so he could go to work.  Plus spraying takes so much less time!  Love paint sprayers!
Here is the finished tan:

He did the ceiling too.  I really like how our bedroom turned out with the ceiling being the same color so we decided to spray this one too :)

Jeff's parents helped out a lot and put up some cabinets for us (that were in other parts of the house, no extra cost!).  I love my new sewing corner and use it all of the time!

Here is Jeff's desk with bookshelf and cabinets.  

There is still the odds and ends to put away, but for the most part it's finished!

The last wall that holds more bookshelves.  This is taken with my huge craft table opened so I can use it for my sewing stuff.  The top folds in half and it fits against the wall with the door opening up the middle of the room when I'm not using it. 

I love having an office in it's own room, away from the kids, and with room to organize all of my sewing stuff. It's great to try to organize our space and actually have it be useful to what we need to do!

Companions

The other week while driving to church Talmage was figuring out some math in the back seat.  It went something like this:

When Clark is 8, I'll be 16.  Grant that means you will be 15, and Sandra you will be 13.  When Clark is 10, I'll be 18!  

Grant started getting in on the fun and adding his age to Clark's various ages.  It ended something like this:  

When Clark is 11 I'll be 19 and on a mission (Talmage).  That means Grant will be 18.  I'll be gone a long time.  Grant will you miss me when I'm gone?  

Ya - Grant's reply :).  

Unless we're together.  We could be together for like 6 months (on missions), if they sent us to the same place.  We could be companions. 

Grant happily agreed

I couldn't help but smile... and laugh a little :).  

I love that my boys love each other and even when they will be far away from us for a few years serving the Lord they still would want to be with each other.  I need this reminder some days, like recently, when they seem to fight more than play nice!

Here they are now...

And over the years together:

Nov 2008

April 2007

May 2006

Feb 2005

They are great companions!