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A woman can only stay away from blogging for so long, and I suppose it’s time that I come out of blog-hiding and fulfill my cyber duty.  Let me tell you what has finally induced me to turn the tide and give in to the trend I’ve been diligently avoiding:  My love for Jon! Allow me to explain. Tonight was book club, which is right up there on my list of favorites with a long, hot bubble bath.  Tonight’s book club was extra special for two reasons: 1. I was in charge of the book. & 2. The book I chose was one of the most inspiring, sweetest novels I’ve ever read.  I first read it about three years ago when my dear mother-in-law got me reading Nicholas Sparks novels.  He is a wonderful author, I highly recommend many of his books.  The name of this book is The Wedding.  When book club first got started in our ward – the very first time I attended I knew that I wanted to do The Wedding.  I didn’t speak up about this treasure until February when I couldn’t hold it in any longer and it just blurted out of me, I surprised everyone because it wasn’t even time to give book suggestions for upcoming months yet.  But they put me down for the next available slot – which happened to be for tonight.  This past couple of days I’ve had the pleasure of re-reading this special find, and loving it all over again.  I will not go into further details about the book – because I want you to get the whole story when you read it.

When I got home from Book Club tonight I saw my sweet Jonna sitting there on the rocking chair in our living room comforting a sad Ethan, and I had this great desire to do something special and out of the ordinary for him.  I went through some ideas in my head of things I could do.  There are many actually because Jon is the quiet accepting type of person who never asks anything of me even when he has some obvious needs.  – So I quietly thought of these things: sew up the holes in some the old, worn out jeans he likes to keep wearing, iron some shirts, sew up the ripped pillow case on our bed, rub his feet, and then it hit me that there is something he actually has asked me to do.  Of all the things Jon could ask me to do, he wants me to add to our family blog!  He has even asked me to do this more than ten times since he first made our blog – which is a LOT for Jon. 

So here I sit, with overflowing emotion for this good man I’m married to, with my heart pounding and this simple thing to say: I love you Jon!  Thank you for loving me so completely just the way I am, for accepting my silliness, my deep well of emotions, my cooking & non-cooking, my inability to make decisions, my air-headed moments, and most of all, my love.  You’re a wonderful, super fun & funny, sweet, gentle & loving Daddy, and a remarkable, sincere, hardworking husband.  You vacuum the house more than I do, and it’s one of my favorite things to do!  (And with a pink dyson no less.) You cook almost as much as I do, you always take the garbage out without me having to ask, you never miss a day of work, are always home for dinner, never leave a mess for me to clean up, always help get the kids to bed, never complain about the holes in your worn out running shoes or the ache in your knee after jogging, always eat my burned dinner without even one word of complaint, and always compliment me when the dinner is actually goodJ, and you always patiently walk me through the process of making a decision I can’t seem to make on my own – like which outfit to wear to church, or which earings look the best.  These things may seem to you to be insignificant because they come so natural to you, but I assure you, they are significant to me.  Thank you.  I love you.

….was a week ago but I haven’t really had time to write a post since then so here it goes (better late than never, right?) It was awesome! As usual I was being me and told BriAnne that I just want to let it pass right by (except for honoring her dad and mine) but BriAnne being BriAnne wasn’t about to let that happen.  And she didn’t.  She and the kids showered upon me an assortment of gifts that would have made Amon-her-khepshef Khaemwaset (Ramesses IX) jealous. Since I don the garb and live the life of your typical white collar office job dramatis personae, I just don’t get much exercise on any kind of regular basis. As such I figured I would start running on our treadmill each night for a mile or 6.  It’s been great, except I wear the same pair of running shoes that were worn out when I took them on my mission 9 years ago. So, my first gift from BriAnne was a new pair of Nike running shoes.  Now I can actually run pain free! They are really great. Next were two new pair of basketball shorts to run in, which were actually from Katelyn.  Last but not least, little Ethan gave me a new pair of jeans which I’ve been needing for a little while now. After gifts we went to church and BriAnne took Ethan to YW’s with her so that I could actually attend all of elder’s quorum for the first time in months. Oh, probably the highlight was hearing my friend Clayton speak in sacrament. He’s a brand new dad which apparently made him the target of a father’s day talk, poor guy. He ran with it though and did a great job, not to mention shared some of the funniest jokes I’ve heard in a long time in any sacrament meeeting. After church we went to my parent’s place where we enjoyed a fine meal in their backyard with an assortment of family. It was all pretty low key and relaxing, just the way I like it.

As usual we seem to have far more to do in a day than can possibly get done, but that’ll probably be the story until retirement. And that’s not going to happen for a looooong time. So, let’s just roll with it, shall we? ‘n kay. The Wadley clan is doing great and we’re excited that the weather is warming up and summer is almost here. Since our last post little Ethan finally got his tearduct fixed. No more cute little pirate look when he wakes up in the morning because he has so much goop in his eye that he can’t open it.  We had a heart to heart and I asked if he was sure that he wanted to enjoy clear, goop free viewing through that ocular opening of his and although he had to think about it he ran off to bug Katelyn which I took as a yes.  So, he now has a tube in there which will be there until October. The operation was done at the end of April and he is doing great. In addition to a fixed duct, he is now running around and even starting to say things like “mama”, “dada”, “gun” “Katin” and other special words. Katelyn is doing great too! She always has something funny to say and just loooooves her primary class. She unfortunately had her first sunburn a few weeks ago when she got to play in her aunt Shalei’s backyard with a) fun cousins b) her swimsuit and c) no sunblock. It’s now turned into a tan so the pain is gone and we’ve all learned our lesson about applying sunblock even if we think there isn’t a possiblity of getting a sunburn BriAnne is of course staying busy in Young Women’s and is working hard preparing for the stake pioneer trek which will take place at the end of July. I am doing well at work and actually moved positions from managing clients to working with databases, a track I’ve wanted to get on for a few years now. My 10 year high school reunion was on Saturday but I unfortunately forgot to register for it so I guess it doesn’t really matter and as such I probably shouldn’t have brought it up. We hope you are enjoying the warmer weather as well and have lots of fun summer plans!