Father's day!

Fathers day! Basically the second pie day of the year! ha! Max loves some pie and I love making him pie! But that's not the point of this post. This was well over a month ago and the main thing I remember is playing one sided dodgeball but I'll get to that. It was a lovely Sunday. We made Max feel special and only gave him a couple small gifts and things the boys had made at school. I'm pretty sure we made a special breakfast but I don't even know what it was. 

We enjoyed church and the men got some good pie at the end. In the evening after dinner, which I'm sure was amazing yet I can't remember, Max said he would like to spend the rest of Father's day reading books in the hammock and jumping on the trampoline with his kids. 

After some book time, we all jumped together but it turned out that our kids loved us throwing mini dodge balls at them so we ended up just pelting them with balls for a long time while they ran in circles around us. Everyone was laughing hysterically and we felt like it was a good way for us all to let off some steam. 

Anyway, it was the perfect Sunday evening and we let our kids stay up way too late. I have known Max for the majority of my life, I've seen him as a gawky middle schooler, a determined high schooler, a missionary, a college student, a newlywed husband, a father, and now trying to balance it all. By far, my favorite is to see him as a father. I love seeing the way he interacts with our sons, he is fun and silly but also gentle and strict. He sets high standards and expectations for our boys and models the kindness he would like to see from them. Parenting these wild ones would be a whole lot harder (ahem...impossible) without his extreme patience! Thank goodness for the manly and gentle fathers of the world!

Also, dodgeball will probably be a new tradition!