Happy Father's Day!

I have three amazing Father's in my life. My dad, my father-in-law and Bracken, the father to my children. I am grateful to my dad for how he raised me and to Paul for how he raised Bracken, and how much they both support our family now.

The past month Bracken has been able to spend more time with us than usual and we have loved it.  I love watching him interact with our kids. Today was a perfect day to watch that, we spend the whole day together as a family.

We went to church, Bracken got Lyla to sleep during sacrament meeting.

We made lunch, Bracken talked Hayes into have a BLT sandwich, unfortunately we were out of bread so he ended up just having the bacon with cucumbers and chips. (odd lunch I know)

We played RISK. Bracken asked Kamri to be on his team and she loved rolling. She was throwing the dice as hard as she could into the box and giggling when someone would respond dramatically when they lost.

Lyla started walking around with her stroller, down the hall & back. All of us cheering her on and big smiles from her.

We ate dinner, with no complaints, it was heavenly! Not the food but the fact there was no complaints!

Bracken made Oreo milkshakes! Our new favorite thing!

The rest of the day I'm stealing from Bracken's journal:

While we were drinking our milkshakes, Hayes started to blow bubbles and I began acting like it was a farting sound.  Hayes got a kick out of it, and soon Kamri joined in.  Before too long, we were all laughing hysterically and Hayes and Kamri couldn’t blow bubbles without blowing milkshake everywhere from laughing too hard, which only perpetuated the fun. 

 Another fun conversation came during lunchtime.  Kamri was telling this story that she was making up and it included two people kissing on the lips.  So Hayes began asking for the rules on kissing on the lips.  I said moms and dads can kiss each other on the lips, so Hayes assumed the rule was that you needed to be married.  I explained that you didn’t have to be married but you needed to be older and “in a stable relationship” (as if they understood that…).  Hayes, of course, wanted more specificity and asked how old.  I threw out a number – sixteen.  Hayes further clarified and said that both people needed to be at least sixteen.  Then Hayes said, “When you’re sixteen you can drive a car and get kissed on the lips.”  Then he looked at me and asked, “Dad, is it against the law to kiss on the lips before you’re sixteen?”  Trying not to laugh, I explained that it was not against the law, but the prophet has taught not to date until sixteen (and by implication, kiss), so we should follow his counsel.  The conversation between Hayes and Kamri continued and by the end of the conversation we had established most of the rules about kissing on the lips, you: 1)  Have to be at least sixteen, 2) Can only kiss someone of the opposite gender, 3) Cannot kiss anyone to whom you are related, 4) Only kiss someone if you really like them and they really like you. 

I'm sure we'll add more rules explanations we missed as they get older but this was closer to a birds and bees conversation than we were expecting on a Sunday afternoon. Bracken and I were both trying not to laugh during their serious conversation. 

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My thought for Sunday was from a speaker at church today. He said
"Time spent with a child is never wasted time." 

Something I need to remind myself of when I'm feeling like I'm not 'being productive' because I'm doing things with my kids instead of getting chores done.