Sunday, June 19, 2011

Fathers...

Today is Father's Day, and I really don't have anything profound to say.
Happy Father's Day.  Your a big deal Dad's of the world...especially my Dad.
 These pics were taken Memorial Weekend 2005.  I always love getting around horses and my Dad because that is usually when he starts to talk about his Father and his character.  I have always marveled at the admiration my Dad feels for his Father, and that makes him a little dearer to me in turn.
Then there's this guy, the ol dh.  The father of my children, and in this pic we had three and it looked like that was going to be a complete brood for us.  We found out the next day we were pregnant with Livvy.  He was sooo shocked and stunned after all it wasn't in the cards seemingly.  After all our youngest was 7 years old ... it "obviously" wasn't going to happen if it hadn't happened yet.  He was super stressed about the idea of another baby.  Understandably as we had quit his relatively good job and started school.  The "plan" was that if we BOTH went to school, we could make it squeek by financially.  So the "plan" getting disrupted was a little distressing... but he was the one that got the freaky cravings during pregnancy.  He was the one who got nervous around her due date and threw a fit when our induction got pushed back.  He is also eternally wrapped around her little pinky finger.  A bad day at school or work just melts away when he looks into her little blue peepers ... she is magic.  And all his kids have been that way, just with Olivia being a "little" younger, it is a  little more pronounced as all the others had grown so much and she was just this tiny little pink helpless thing that neeeeded her Daddy... so so helpless.  So insecure.  Daddy's little girl. 
By the time this picture was taken the following July 4th there was just no going back.  Now here we are, it's Father's Day, and Daddy is far away at Fort Lewis-McChord and alone in a hotel room.  She just wanted to send him a picture that would cheer him up and she did just that... A picture of the "Idaho Gun Show".  What a love. And on this computer I cannot bring it up so her little face a five months old will have to do for now.