Father's Day 2015

Our church didn't have an evening worship service on Father's Day so we decided to head down to Falls Park and have a pizza picnic and let the girls play in the splash pad for a little bit (have I mentioned that I love downtown Greenville?).  

I can't begin to tell you how thankful I am that my girls have such a loving, Christ-centered father.  He points all of us to Jesus.  He serves me all the time.  He takes out the trash about 95% of the time, most every weekend he lets me sleep until 8 or 8:30 and he gets up early with the kids, he puts the kids to bed most every night while I am cleaning up the kitchen, there are about a million other ways that he serves out family but I won't list them all.  I know that his loving and serving us is not going unnoticed by our girls and it is definitely not going unnoticed by me.  I pray one day that they are blessed with godly men who love Jesus and love their families well.  

When we were having our pizza picnic I asked the girls to tell us their favorite thing to do with their Daddy: 

Emily:  I love to help Daddy in the garden.

Hannah:  I love to ride in Daddy's car.  

One day last week Hannah was sitting on my lap and we were just talking.  She had had a hard morning (3 year old problems) and I was just giving her extra snuggles.  I was having her list all the people that love her. I would say who else loves you?  She would answer with another family member's name.  We did this until she had named everyone in our family and extended family.  Then, I said "but who loves you the most, more than anyone?" She thought for just a minute, got a big smile on her face and said "Daddy!!!!"  Ha.  I was looking for "God" because he does.  He loves us more than we can imagine, but I loved her answer too.  I love that she feel so loved by her earthly father and I pray that that helps her to easily rest in the love of her heavenly father.  

They had fun at the splash pad!  It is possible that I may have forgotten to pack towels on this fun little excursion (my bad), but no worries, it was so hot out there they pretty much dried on our walk back to the car.  

We'll take every chance we can get to celebrate you, Bert.  We love you! Happy Father's Day!