My kid does not like the grass...

So for Father's Day, Chris wanted the entire Auburn football season on DVD. Thus he ordered them. He thought that was all he was getting.

And he was wrong.

I'm not a fan of that celebrating route. I've done it in the past because Chris is not a gift giver nor is he very good at receiving. Getting gifts always makes him a little uncomfortable. It is so not his love language.

But it is mine and sometimes, I need to love on him that way.

I had been planning for weeks what I wanted to do for him.

The easiest stuff is food. Chris likes food. He's skinny, gets bored eating and can literally forget to eat. But when the stars align and he actually realizes he's hungry, he does eat. Sometimes he even enjoys it. With his favorite meals being breakfast and Thanksgiving.

Bacon and turkey.

Men.

Knowing there was absolutely no way he would wake up early enough to eat a full breakfast on Sunday morning before church, I decided Saturday would be the day for bacon.

By some bizarre miracle, Pumpkin slept until 8:00 am on Saturday.

Not kidding.

Yeah, I totally checked to see if she was breathing. Once. Maybe three times.

Since that so very literally never happens, I woke up at 7 thinking holy moly she is gonna be so mad at me for sleeping late. Girly's got to be starving. I didn't even check the monitor really. I just jumped out of bed, made her breakfast and then went in the nursery to get her. For some reason, I didn't go in saying Good morning Pumpkin when I opened the door. I just quietly walked in, saw her all snuggled up in the corner and then equally as quiet, backed slowly out.

Holding my breath.

That gave me a whole hour to fix breakfast and even make the potato salad for lunch.

Father's Day breakfast...Done.

Cooking a Thanksgiving meal would have to come Sunday afternoon. I got a turkey breast and all the fixin's for dressing. Desert was the kicker. Aunt J had given me a recipe from the Birmingham News for gluten-free Snickerdoodles. Chris LOVES Snickerdoodles.

And I've never made them.

Gluten filled or otherwise.

Oh, I've purchased them. Just never actually baked them.

So I thought that would be a nice surprise.

With the food plan covered and all the items purchased over two weeks of grocery shopping, the next thing to get to was the gifts.

First, I knew he needed a new shirt. He's said several times that he now understands how parents go years without buying new clothes for themselves. It's just not in the budget. I had a little money set aside and decided he needed something new. Thanks to Father's Day sales, I was able to get him four new shirts!

The other comment he's made is that he needed a new picture of Pumpkin for his office. The one he has is of her as a three month old. Since I just happen to know a fabulous photographer, I figured we might be able to make that happen. Last week, we faked a play date and went for a mini photo shoot instead.

Really, this is a gift for myself as much for him. Don't think I'm not aware of that. But I wouldn't have done it for myself. For him, yep, I can make that happen.

We did an Auburn theme for the photos because I have a "My Little Tiger" Auburn picture frame. I thought it would be great for Chris to take that to work. Mrs. Eartha did a great job with the pictures!

And of all the gifts, Chris seemed to appreciate the picture the best. Who can blame him? She is the best thing about Father's Day.

Although, I think turkey and dressing were a seriously close second.

(Can you stand the cuteness of this picture? I was so hoping to get some giggles in her new little dress I'd made. What I got instead was confirmation that she is my kid and wants nothing to do with grass. Noth...ing.)