Happy Fathers Day

I wanted to say happy fathers day to all you dads out there.

I was thinking this morning how much I love being a dad.

I'm so blessed to have two wonderful daughters. 

They astound and humble me everyday and 

are moment by moment reminders of God's grace towards me.

I was also thinking how much I love my dad. 

In a world where so many families have absent or uninvolved fathers 

my dad was alway there. So much of what I have learned in life

I learned from him. He is a wonderful role model for me, even to this day.

I have a high standard to live up to as a father. The supreme example of 

my Heavenly Father and life of sacrifice of my earthly father... big shoes indeed.

I was also thinking that, I don't tell him how much I appreciate him, enough.

So Happy Fathers Day Dad! I love you very much.

Odd Couple

Emma and Zachary are great friends, they balance each other out well.
Emma is more of a free spirit, she is loud and doesn't stop moving.
Zacahry is quiet, and will sit and play with one toy for 30 minutes
and be content. As you can see from the picture Emma's desire is to
climb the fence when Zach is ok with just shaking it.

A Dog Named Grace

The neighbors have a dog named Grace, she is a sweet, well mannered
golden retriever. Emma loves when Grace is outside, she will sit with
her and feed her grass, or run back and forth along the fence while
grace does the same. It's like we have a dog but without all the
responsability, it's great. For awhile Emma would tell people she had
a dog named Grace and now finaly I think she realizes she is not her
dog, but she still loves her and enjoys playing with her through the
chain link fence.

Yummmmm!

Coy wanted to make cookie the other night but we ran out of flour, he
was so disappointed and so was I. But I didn't want to bug the
neighbor so I got creative. I thought what else do we have.....cake
mix! Yes but no frosting...boo! Well then I got even more creative and
googled "other uses for cake mix". I found exactly what I wanted, a
cookie recipe....yay! The recipe was so simple I have it memorized
( cake mix, 1 stick butter, 1 egg, and 2 tblsp of water if using
chocolate cake mix) I also added chocolate chips.
As I baked these cookies I told Coy "these would work great for ice
cream sandwhiches," he immediatly got up and went to the store to get
ice cream. I was right they were amazing!
I am so excited about this new recipe, I wanted to keep it a secret
and just make them for people but not tell them how, but it's so
amazing I must tell everyone!