Super Dad!

It was a normal day today. It was a day filled with taking kids to and from school, helping kids with homework chores and piano, cleaning, taking care of a couple sick kids. It totally wouldn't even be blog worthy if it weren't for the fact that Lamon is pretty much Awesome!

Lamon had the day off and had a bunch of things he had to do today. He had to bid out some homes for Christmas lights, run some errands that had to do with preparing for Ironman training, and work on putting up some Christmas lights here as well. Well Lamon took the kids to school on his way to do his bids. And after finishing most of the homes he went and picked up Hayden from school and then took him with him to go do another bid and to go on a couple of his errands. When  they got home Hayden came in the house beaming with an icecream in his hand saying, "I went on my third date with Dad!" Lamon took Hayden out to eat and got him an icecream while they were gone, and  Hayden informed him that it was their third "date" together. He then recounted the other "dates" they had been on. For the rest of the day Hayden kept referring to their "date" and one time yelled out loud cheerfully, "It's a great day for a date!"
Lamon tries to take the kids out individually as often as he can to have a "date" and the kids love it. One time Drew and Hayden were a little upset when me and Lamon were going out together saying to me, "How come YOU get to go on more dates with Dad than us?!" I thought it was pretty cute. They love their Dad!

Well Lamon wasn't finished being amazing. He then took Hayden and Ada with him to Draper to get a watch that he wanted,  then came home and helped Drew and Hayden with Piano, and let the kids help put up some Christmas lights in the front yard. He gave a sweet lesson for Family Home Evening, and then helped me put the kids to bed. Did I ask him to do any of these things? No. I would have been just fine doing it myself. But he WANTED to do it. And I was so grateful for the help.  I can't think of anything that makes me love Lamon more than watching him with our kids. He is such a good Dad.

Perhaps the sweetest Daddy moment I witnessed today, was in the middle of the night when I brought a sick crying shivering feverish Ada into her Dad who wrapped her in his arms. He took her into her room, set her on her bed, annointed her head with oil and gave her a blessing. I watched a sick little girl relax and fall asleep beneath her father's hands. I don't think there is anything sweeter. I love Lamon so much.