Happy Father's Day! ❤️

I wanted to give a little Father's Day shoutout to my hubby on the blog since the people that he actually fathers can't speak up and brag on him yet! 

We had a great little day. Nothing really out of the ordinary. We agreed to do cards only for most holidays this year and that's been great. However, I did flag down a random lawn crew Saturday evening and begged them to mow our lawn "just once" so Lance could have no tasks on Sunday. People with little kids know that time is precious, so yes this was money well spent! 

But we just relaxed, enjoyed family time, hotdogs and cheesecake (yikes), and I made sure Lance was free of all diaper changes or really any "kid tasks" in general that aren't that fun. 

I am so lucky to call this one mine and my girls are so lucky too! We are at such a sweet spot in our parenting journey right now. I am soaking up all the memories of this time. Of the four voices signing in the girls pitch black room at night, of the "family hugs" and hilarious dinner time "conversation" with two two year olds, and just all the playing and laughing and glances across the room that Lance and I give each other often when the supreme drama emerges from the girls! I'm trying to store it away in my mind so I never forget this ultra sweet spot we are in! So sweet in fact that as I was washing dishes the other night I truly felt profoundly sad that the girls wouldn't stay 2 forever. I fought the urge to go wake up Lance and demand a new baby, like, now! I need my little baby Jane to get here quick. I'm so ready for another little one! I never in a million years understood how people had multiple children when my girls were newborns (I was not thriving as a mom of newborn twins most of the time). But then they became not so newborn and it's just so much fun! 

And we wouldn't be here if we didn't have our awesome Daddy completing our little Family dynamic! Lance you are why everything works. Heaven knows if it were all left to me we would have no power, gas, electric, Internet or health insurance. Really anything involving paying bills on time. I'd also probably be in jail because of expired, well everything that can expire. Thank you for leaving me to only handle raising the girlies and doing a little speech pathology on the side. Two jobs that give me joy! You are allowing me to live out my lifelong dream. You wake up HOURS before the rest of us and are gone all day so that I can live my dream. I feel guilty at times, but I also know your sacrifice is allowing me to disciple the hearts of the ones God entrusted us under our roof and I'm so thankful. Thanks for knowing my limits and stepping in where I Iack (which is a lot). And thanks for praying for our family and leading us like it's your top priority! 

You make the good times even better, the hard times so much easier and the mundane times so very pleasant. We all love you so much!

Happy Father's Day Lance! 

Red eye phase. This was a phase of about 4 months where we would go to bed at 10, feed babies at 11:30 and then again at 4am. Then Lance would shower and leave for work around 6am bc he was commuting over an hour each way! So yes, this super dad slept about 5 hours a night and started most days at 4am! And no amount of begging would keep him from helping me nurse the girls at each feeding. I will never forget Lances long, giant self hanging off the love seat just waiting for me to wake him to burp a baby and then help me get them both back nursing and happy. Those were THE days! So hence, "red eye phase". 

Still in the "red eyes phase" but maybe beginning to see the light! 

No amount of long commuting could keep this daddy from being the most fun guy around to the two! 

Much more rested phase now that these teenagers sleep until 9am! 

Daddy drink stop. 

So tiny and all so sweet! 

His little loves of his life! ❤️❤️❤️

They are both saying "yook yook I have avocado in my mouth!" 

Anything Daddy does is cool!