So June is always a big deal in the Asher House, but this year it was made even bigger with our boy's birthday joining the celebrations!!
June 2 we celebrated our boy's 14th birthday... it was so fun to wake him up to waffles and gifts before dropping him off for his second-to-last day of school. A few days later we went to play paintball and had his older sister and younger 2 siblings join us from their homes along with his cousin and aunt. What an awesome day of celebration!! It was so sweet to see all the kids playing together - and to pop them with paint-balls on the battlefield!
A couple of weeks later, I got to celebrate my birthday and Ryan got his first Father's Day. While we didn't want to make a big deal out of it being that it's another sensitive day, I can't let the month pass without saying again how AMAZING Ryan is at being a dad. He's SO understanding, patient and kind. He constantly chooses to be loving instead of mad, he gives up his quiet time and alone time, he chooses family first and is generally just the best human I know.
Just a few days after Father's day was our 9th anniversary (yesterday in fact). I can't believe I am so blessed to have this man as my partner in life. After we made and ate dinner as a family... this amazing man spent several hours working on our boy's presentation for Junior Police Academy Graduation which will happen later this afternoon. Even though he has a million things going on at work, he puts his family first.
While things are never the way we plan for them to be and life is hard and often hurtful, I am so blessed to have someone in my life that makes me see the good around me. Someone who keeps me focused on the difference we can make in the world and how even small wins are wins. This man reminds me that we aren't in control of everything and that all we can do is focus on doing the right thing each minute of each hour of each day... we don't know what life will bring and we can't control anything but ourselves and we can't do anything more than our best....
June 2 we celebrated our boy's 14th birthday... it was so fun to wake him up to waffles and gifts before dropping him off for his second-to-last day of school. A few days later we went to play paintball and had his older sister and younger 2 siblings join us from their homes along with his cousin and aunt. What an awesome day of celebration!! It was so sweet to see all the kids playing together - and to pop them with paint-balls on the battlefield!A couple of weeks later, I got to celebrate my birthday and Ryan got his first Father's Day. While we didn't want to make a big deal out of it being that it's another sensitive day, I can't let the month pass without saying again how AMAZING Ryan is at being a dad. He's SO understanding, patient and kind. He constantly chooses to be loving instead of mad, he gives up his quiet time and alone time, he chooses family first and is generally just the best human I know.
Just a few days after Father's day was our 9th anniversary (yesterday in fact). I can't believe I am so blessed to have this man as my partner in life. After we made and ate dinner as a family... this amazing man spent several hours working on our boy's presentation for Junior Police Academy Graduation which will happen later this afternoon. Even though he has a million things going on at work, he puts his family first.
While things are never the way we plan for them to be and life is hard and often hurtful, I am so blessed to have someone in my life that makes me see the good around me. Someone who keeps me focused on the difference we can make in the world and how even small wins are wins. This man reminds me that we aren't in control of everything and that all we can do is focus on doing the right thing each minute of each hour of each day... we don't know what life will bring and we can't control anything but ourselves and we can't do anything more than our best....
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