We decided to celebrate our Father’s Day as our little family of three on Saturday. Leaving Sunday to celebrate with our own dads.

The day went a little something like this:

• Rylee wakes up at 7 AM. I get up with her.
• Andy gets out of bed about 9:30 AM.
• Father’s Day cards given to Andy before we leave for the day.
• Starbucks drive-thru. Sure, sure, Andy doesn’t even like the smell of coffee, but, Happy Wife, Happy Life. Right?
• Off and running to Cabela’s where we check out the newly opened store and Andy gets some new long underwear for his impending trip to AK.
• From Cabela’s we head to the Springfield Police K-9 Unit annual competition. Very cool event. Ry loved it! We met up with some friends there. We knew one of the competitors (he won 1st place by the way!).
• Ry fell asleep on the way home. Napped after we got home.
• I made an awesome dinner of jerk-chicken and veggie kabobs and jasmine rice. 

That was pretty much that. An awesome day. So why the “wife fail” you ask? Well, let’s rewind a couple of weeks…

Rylee and I are at Target and we decide to pick up some Father’s Day cards. I am intently reading all the husband ones and letting Ry pick out her own. She finds one. I glance at it. It’s got a dog on the front holding a trophy that says “#1 DAD!”. Perfect. I tell her to put it in the cart.

We get home from Target and I hide the cards in my dresser. Saturday morning I pull the cards out of the dresser and hand Rylee’s card to her with a pen so she can “sign” in. I sign mine. Ry hands me her signed card. I put it in the envelope, she licks it and we head out to the living room to present Daddy with his specially picked out Father’s Day cards.

Andy opens Rylee’s card first. I’m sitting at the other end of the couch. He kinda smiles, let’s out a chuckle looks up at me and says…

“Happy Birthday!?…really Babe?”


Ok so…I never once actually READ the card Rylee had chosen for Andy. It wasn’t a Father’s Day card at all…whoops.


I think it’s safe to say that this will be a Father’s Day memory neither of us forget any time soon.


***For the record: Andy thought it was funny and he loves the card Rylee picked out for him.***