About Father's Day

For my father - who worked three jobs for so many years...putting food on our table, clothes in our closets, and always giving us a warm and cozy home to live in...

for all the extras...the Barbie Dream House...(fully furnished, people!) for the pink huffy dream bike...the countless Cabbage Patch Dolls, lugging us all to Disneyland and then running right alongside us to help us be the first in line for the best rides...

for all the double scoop pink bubble-gum ice-cream cones you indulged, for letting us write on your back in ink-pen...just because it was fun and for all the times you got on the floor and let us climb all over you, nurse you to health, or "dress" you up

for the support you've given over these many years, for loving us kids when we weren't exactly loveable...for putting up with our nonsense (and there was an awful lot)...for always keeping us laughing...for teaching us how to treat others...

for an incredible work ethic, for integrity, and for reminding us to enjoy life because it's much too short

for music, because singing is a part of who we all are thanks to you and Mom

for the amazing gift of our faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice, and for having a worshippers heart and showing us what that looked like

for that and for so much more Daddy, I love you.  

For my husband and the amazing father of my two children, I LOVE you.  

for all your tenacity, hope, enduring strength, and examples of grace...for the journey to our babies and never giving up when I wanted to so many times...

for all the amazing meals, the tender hugs and kisses, the bedtime stories, the cuddles, and the way you melt our hearts with your attention...

for the Godly man you are and continue to pursue, for the way you lead our family and the way you love us every single day

for all the gifts you give us tangible and unseen, for the grace you extend to me - when I fall down, for the countless acts of kindness you shower us with, and for the many ways you show that you're crazy about us, day in and out

for playing with and gently tossing our kids around until all of our sides hurt from laughter, for being lighthearted and easy-going, fun-loving, and good-natured...

for all this and goodness knows, so much more - thank you for being who you are and for being an amazing father to our little blessings.  We love you so very much!

Happy Father's Day!