parents for the night

it was hard to leave lake powell early. i have never had so much peer pressure in my life! people peer pressuring me every where to stay... but i knew the right thing to do was to come home to my husband...and so here i am. i received a phone call from b.j. that made my sad/missing lake powell heart much brighter. he asked daron and i to baby sit he and ellery's precious little one.

ellie layne has been our entertainment tonight and we're happy campers about it.

 (below is the 2nd video we took. it is crazy how every moment is adorable and you just want to catch every second! i can see myself going over board. there is not even anything exciting in this video but i have watched it 10 times already)

i am going to toot my husbands horn for .5 seconds and just say he is truly amazing with her. i don't really know how to describe it. i think the best word is: attentive. it made me laugh so hard every time ellie made the slightest  sound daron ran to the living room to see what was going on and to check on her. i teased him about it and he claims it was just an "excuse to see her." i personally think it's a combination of that and....we'll say...cautiousness. 

after we fed her she fell asleep again and so we took her to the basement with us to watch a movie. but before we could start it daron had to run upstairs and grab her bunny for her "because ellery said she likes it." like i said...attentive right!?

it is unfortuante, however, how we may have a skewed vision of what parenting is like considering baby ellie is such an easy baby. (don't worry ellery agrees) i can count on one hand the amount of times i have seen her fussy. daron said if our babies aren't as easy he is going to bring her over so "they can see a good example" haha he cracks me up. if only that would actually work..right??

i just love seeing these little glimpses of daron being a dad. it reminds me of how much we have to look forward to.

(pictures of ellie's blessing day)