Happy Daddy Day!

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy in the world!
We are blessed to have you in our lives!
Thank you for everything you do for our family, day in and day out.

Thanks for teaching our boy how to fish and bike and shoot hoops and hand wash Mommy's van and appreciate the value of a really sweet car. 

You are teaching him what it means to be a boy (and someday, a man), and he has one of the kindest, funniest and hardest working daddies to learn from. 

And thank you for playing Matchbox cars on the floor with him for hours.

Thank you for showing our girls what it means to be 

loved and respected and cared for and celebrated. 

Thanks for oohing and aahing over their new dresses, for playing Barbies with them on the living room floor, for buying them flowers from the flower shop. 

Someday they will choose husbands based on the standard their daddy set.

We hope we tell you enough how much we love you!

We're glad we were able to take today to slow down, celebrate you,
and shower you with gifts and kind words.

{A bucket o' Daddy fun, hand-picked by the big kids} 

Including: lighters for the fire pit, a microfiber car wash sponge, new shiny fishing lures, beef jerky, chocolate covered açaí berries & Gatorade chews.

Mommy's picks (that didn't fit in the pail): 

new Tifosi sunglasses for road biking and new shorts for mountain biking.

{All About My Daddy printable questionnaires}
Dylan's was spot on: Matt does love to go to the Electric Cheetah and his current fav food is gluten-free "stuff."

I loved Ella's answers too. She listed Matt's favorite activity as selling cars and added that she loves it when her Daddy works "because he makes more money."

Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there! 
Hope you enjoyed your special day!

Dad's Day

I always knew Matt would be the best sort of dad but it's still been a blessing to watch him love our kids through the years. When he walks through the door at 6:30pm, all three kiddos make a break for him. The nightly fight is who gets to sit by Daddy at dinner. And even on nights when he's working late they always make sure to tell me as I'm tucking them in, "Send Daddy in to say good night."

In honor of Father's Day, I wanted to pull some pictures of Matt and the kids from the past 6 1/2 years. I started looking through my files and realized I have a approximately a bajillion so it took some work to narrow them down. I grabbed my favorites - the ones that I felt captured some important moments, both big and small.

The moment he first became a dad...

the joy of his first son...

  holding a newborn daughter and realizing he was going to have to give her away...someday...

...and realizing her baby blues weren't in fact going to turn brown.

Always playing...

(even after a hard day's work...)

snuggling...

and goofing.

Flying high with his princess...

passing on Macker wisdom to his little man...

...and cherishing the baby stage one more time around.

  AND happily sharing his birthday cakes with one...

two...

...three little ones.

Happy Father's Day, Matt.

We love you.