Utah Lake and Father's Day

So we made our summer bucket list and I feel like time is just slipping away so I am such a hurry to get cracking at it. 

We wanted to take the raft down to Utah Lake and play around and fish and have a camp fire and have dinner and s'mores. We waited until Kasen was up from his nap to go so that the dinner part would fit in. We patched the hole in the raft, loaded up the truck and drove down.

It was SO windy.

I swear the raft would have blown away so we didn't even put it in the water, and a fire was so out of the question so we never made one. 

We were all pretty cold and no one really wanted to get wet.

We ate our sandwiches on a log and the kids played around for a bit and we all thought about how much fun we would have had had the weather been nice. 

Oh well, we'll have to try again.

At least I got some cool pictures.

Father's Day was good. The kids and I made TJ breakfast in bed: an egg mcmuffin oranges, and the kids to it to him on a tray. They each had made their cards (they were all trying to be funny and so none of them really made sense. They just wanted dad to laugh). After church we went to TJ's parents house for Ribs and hung out with a few of the sisters and their families who happened to be in town.

I hope TJ knows how much we love him. Kasen will stand at the window on his chair and will cry as he watches TJ drive away for work in the mornings. They all get super excited when they hear the truck coming home from work at the end of the day. He is an amazing dad who loves to spend time with them. And what is so awesome is that I always wanted to marry someone like my dad. Tj is so like my dad in so many ways and I love that about him. My own dad is amazing and he is my greatest example in everything. He is smart and reserved (I got that from him, not the smart part), he is patient and caring, he is quick to say he is sorry, he is sensitive and really just wants me to write him poems for every holiday. He loves basketball and is amazing at it and taught me how to play. He loves the great outdoors from hunting to fishing to camping to boating and I love doing all of that. He knows when to bite his tongue (I need to work on that) and he is super humble. He is such a hard worker and I have never seen him take a day off of work when he was sick. He would literally have to be dying before that. He is a master creator and has built his company from the ground up, starting with one Indian silversmith in his garage. Now he owns one of the finest jewelry companies in NM and sells his jewelry worldwide. I mean he has his own mine for crying out loud. He is sweet and always wants a hug and I am so glad that he is my dad! 

I have the best of both worlds.