on a laid back father’s day…

…we gave our resident daddybear his gifts upon waking! then headed to church, where maddalena was excited to jump and dance and learn about creation in her little class. i hung out with rocco in the infant room where he was not thrilled. 😉 we made it home in time for rocco to crash into a long afternoon nap! stevo watched some kind of sporting event on tv… golf maybe? then ran out on a manly man-errand of sorts with my dad and brother. so, when rocco was up from his nap, we reconvened at the farm, had a late afternoon splish splash in the pool!! followed that with homemade meatballs over penne [with a spaghetti squash alternative!], aaand then as both babies passed out in various places, we gave my own daddy some nifty gifties and called it a super day. i hope it was a good day, at least!

i’m always big on photo gifts, personally… so, hope no one is sick of them yet, ha!! but, especially for the smaller holidays… and especially for men who aren’t going to do their own photo printing! it always seems personal and sentimental. i’ve done a number of photobooks, framed photos, homemade canvases, canvases printed by companies… and this year i couldn’t believe how well our own convenient walgreens knocked it out of the park in the canvas department!! woo! we gave steven a photo on canvas of the babies with him at the office that he could take to work so they were always there with him. 🙂 and for his dad, we did a favorite photo printed on wood, which also turned out nicely!

for my dad, along with the gifts everyone gave him, we all tried something new called awesome box, which was fun! it allowed each of my family members to easily log into the site and create pretty, personalized photo cards with their own messages on the back. then, all of the cards were beautifully printed and shipped to me as a neat little set [you can ship it directly to them, too] in its own box/envelope all ready for us to give to him! i think he enjoyed going through each one and reading each message!! and i loved seeing and hearing them, one after the next. we did some older photos and some newer photos… it was sooo hard to choose from nearly 30 years of happy captures!!

we did the 10-card set for just our fam to participate in, but you can do sets of 25, 50, or 100!! how sweet would that be? if you want to give it a try for somebody you love, you can use the code AWESOMESUMMER for $15 off until august 31!

anyway, all this to really say… i am so absolutely, endlessly grateful for the fathers in our lives!! my babies and i, we are ridiculously blessed. and it’s funny how it works, too… i truly have the best dad in the world… and i totally believe that’s why i fell in love with someone that i knew would be an amazing dad to my one-day babies. which are here now! and that is crazy!

so… we love you, dads!!! we love you so much! father’s day and every day. <3