i have the best

husband, and my kids have the best father.  ok, i know there are a lot of wonderful husbands and fathers out there and that makes me so happy.  but, i just need to brag a little about mine/ours right now.  you see he did the most thoughtful, special thing for us last weekend when he was out of town.

here's a little recap of what he did for us.  one afternoon he started leaving us texts.

the first text we received read , "john: first clue- who can do the chicken dance?".

uh, ok - we had no idea what he was talking about.  and since he was in the middle of golfing and i was in the middle of doing a million things at once (laundry, snacks, naps, helping christopher with his power point presentation) we just went about our business and didn't really give it a second thought.

the next text read, "ella: second clue - megan and amanda have something for you."

still, no clue what he was talking about.

well, christopher must have talked to him after that one and realized these were clues to a treasure hunt he had left for us in the house.

turns out, he left us all little gifts hidden around the house and these texts were our clues to find them.

so, we found john's gift behind the elmo toy, who does the chicken dance,  in his room.  a little soft soccer ball - so perfect for him and he has been playing with it non-stop ever since.

ella's gift was hidden behind a framed picture of her with her cousins (megan and amanda) in her room.  she got some cute tinker bell pencils.

the boys both got baseball card packs (which they were thrilled with), their clues were:
"andrew: third clue - mr. october is protecting your prize."  here he is reenacting the finding of his...

and christopher's text said, "ghengis khan buried your prize in his backyard."

this one took us awhile and we even had to text back a couple times for more clues because we couldn't find it.  well, it was taped to the back of mongolia on our world map in the hallway.  that was the hardest one to find.

and my sweet husband left me some individually wrapped junior mints, that i was so excited to see at the store the other day with a text that read, "alish, baby ella was sooo cute when she wore her headband."  they were hidden behind a framed picture of  ella with a headband on when she was a baby.

these are seriously delicious, the mint in the middle just oozes out into your mouth - if you love mints (like i do) you gotta try these.

it was such a fun surprise and we were absolutely thrilled with it.  here are the kids with their gifts...

i just love the man who planned all this for us sooo much, and am so proud of our loving marriage (that we have worked hard on) and our little family, and thank the Lord for him and these wonderful kids every day.  and wow, did he surprise us...man was i impressed.