our kansas city june.

we spent about one week of june in kansas city.

we came home from the wedding, hung out for a week, and then took off for nebraska!

but it was a full week.

and thus, it shall be documented :)

. . .

archer spent the week getting cuter,

and roman spent the week becoming more funny.

archer perfected the brother punch,

and romes went to the dentist for the first time!

gpa don came to visit and went to daddy's softball game with us,

romes spent the whole game adventuring with his buddy jairus.

gpa don read bed time stories to romes,

and daddy came home from work and mommy thought, dang, he's cute.

mommy took millions of pictures of archer man.

no really, 

i have uncontrollable snap syndrome

 i can't help it!

 he's just so yummy.

and he also looks kind of like a baby bird.

chirp chirp little archer.

naked baby!

and eeeeeeeeek!!!!  

he started scooting off his little play mat!

we spent the week snuggling and catching up on sleep from the wedding week

and romes stepped out in style to make his daddy's father's day gift

my little picasso strikes again.

our traditional daddy day canvas, by romy joe.

it was a crazy busy week full of laundry and re organization of the house and trying to get back on schedule with our lives . . . and then packing and preparing to spend 3 weeks in nebraska.

whew.

kansas city june, you were a crazy one!

father's day. 2012.

for the past couple months, father's day has been on the back of my mind.

trying to figure out how to honor my husband, the father of our little boy, on his special day, 

just made me all sorts of giddy with excitement.  

i began planning the gifts we would give him, whether homemade or bought, 

and what we would do on that weekend to celebrate his amazing, steadfast, cornerstone role in our family.

and, though i thought up some pretty rad things, i kept feeling like nothing would suffice in rewarding his hard work, his love, his selflessness, his compassion, his empathy, and his honesty.

and then, it hit me.  he does those things out of love.  he doesn't even need to be rewarded.

[don't you worry....we still loaded him up with presents and fun surprises!]

if i can teach one thing to my children, about their father, it would be that he loves us well.

unfortunately, these days, love is a word so over-used, so used out of context, and so used without really understanding its value.  

but, today i choose to use the word love.

in trying to describe my mr leif, i rely on what our heavenly Father tells us about love.

because, thats exactly what my mr leif shows us.

love is these things:

"it's patient, love is kind. 

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, 

it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 

Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. 

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

Love never fails." 


happy fathers day to you mr leif.
we love you :)

and without further ado, 

i give you the monsterishly long video i created for mr leif.

romy and i shared it with him this morning.

and, well, to say he loved it would be an understatement.

[hi grammys! hi papas! this video is for you!!!]