Father's Day

This year was Jon's "first" Father's Day. Sophie was born on June 15th, the Tuesday before Father's Day, so we had Sophie with us for Father's Day but she wasn't officially and legally ours. We celebrated as much as we could staying in a hotel in another state. This year we really got to celebrate and I tried to make it a special day for Jon. He got to share his Father's Day with my dad, who was here visiting. I hope Jon didn't mind because I thought it was special that I got to celebrate with Jon and my dad. This year was a special year for me, because it turned out that I got to spend Mother's Day and Father's Day with each of my parents, because they were out here visiting.

I got up with Sophie and got her fed, then Jon came down and took over so that I could get the meatballs made and in the crock pot before church. Once the meatballs were made I made waffles for breakfast at my dad's request. Jon and my dad then watched Sophie for me while I got ready for church. I made Jon's favorite for dinner, meatballs and mashed potatoes, and we also had salad and for dessert we had the rest of my birthday cake. I offered to make dessert, but we still had half of my Cold Stone Oreo birthday cake, so we had that instead.

I didn't get a picture of Sophie with my dad on Father's Day, but I got these cute pictures of them the day my dad left. It was so much fun having him here with us. The week was a little crazy, but we sure had a great time and Sophie loved having Grandpa Reed here. She was constanly going up to him wanting to give him loves or wanting him to hold her, and of course Grandpa hated every minute of it. I gave my dad a Willow Tree statue of a father with his two girls and it's titled Daddy's Girls. I loved it and thought it would be perfect for my dad. He only has two girls, me and my sister Nicole. I have a brother, but they didn't have a statue of a dad with two girls and a boy.

Good -bye kisses from Grandpa Reed.

Sophie helped Dad unwrap his presents and then she got to play with the bows. Don't you just love the look on her face? I think she was getting ready to put that yummy looking orange bow in her mouth. So tasty!

I made a book about Sophie for Jon. Here Jon and Sophie are looking at all the cute pictures of Sophie from this past year.

We also gave him a Willow Tree statue titled First Dad. It's a dad holding a new baby. I know Sophie isn't much of a baby anymore, but I thought it was perfect. We also got him two new shirts, one at Jon's request a short sleeved white shirt for church. He had also requested some cheese corn from the Karmel Korn in the mall, but the Karmel Korn closed so he didn't get any cheese corn.