Jeff's Father's Day breakfast this morning.

Father's Day 2007

'To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

To be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid,
don't look at it for the first two years.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Jeff was again a sport in wearing his homemade tie that the girls made. I think we now have 6 of these. This year we put on shrinky dinks of their art work, I will do this again for sure. This year was our second year sewing on the bells.... poor guy. the sliver charms from the craft store were great and so cheap.

and huge congrats to my dad who did his first (of many) half marathons in
Durango, Colorado, yesterday. Way to go Dad we are all so proud of you!

Traditions

Today we woke up to homemade cinnamon rolls with yummy maple icing from again the amazing Katie Davis. Thanks so much for giving us a place of refuge this weekend.

Today the movers are at the house unloading the truck. I drove around the neighborhood for two hours to get the kids out of the house. Then I took them to church even though we looked like a wreck.

Not much a father's day for Jeff that is for sure. Annie Kate was sad that Dad couldn't wear his father's day tie. Every year we make him a special tie to wear to church . The above photo is one from a few years ago. We take one of his old ties and glue every obnoxious thing we can find with photos too. It is fun to look back at the ones we have made over the years.

I also added what we handed out to the fathers at church in 2004 when I was in YW's. A pocket protector with a sugar daddy and a pen with the following poem. (written by my friend Stacy S.

Hip, Hip hooray, Today is Father's day. For all the things you do for us, without complaining, without a fuss. As our ward we would like to say, Have a "Sugar daddy" day. Happy Fathers day 2004

Do they do anything for the dad's at your church?

Idea posted from Shauna, such a great idea!

Several year ago, we started the homemade tie tradition for our entire church congregation. The Saturday before Fathers Day, they have an Activity Day specifically to make the ties. On Fathers Day, all the men are great sports and wear them. Ties are made for every man, children or not. Some wear 3-4 ties, one from each child or wear the previous years' when their children grow up, etc. It has been a very fun tradtion and continues to grow. Some of the ties even have dates on them. Each year, there is something different to add to the decorations. Lots of laughs and fun memories. With my older children grown and gone,when they called home today, they asked about all the ties at church today and what they looked like, etc.