Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the dads!!!

We surprised my dad by showing up at his and my step-mom's church for service. Joan asked us about two months ago to think about this. She said her son, Jeff, did this for her one year on Mother's Day and it made the day even more special. Since it is a 1 1/2 hour drive up there, we (Melanie, Nathan, Mike, Hannah, Andrew, Will and I) left our house around 8:45 a.m. There was very little traffic out so we made it to Ripley in just over an hour. When Dad came out of Sunday school, we were milling around in the sanctuary. He was very pleasantly surprised. Afterwards we went to lunch then over to Dad and Joan's. We had a great visit. Jeff, our step-brother, even came by for a few minutes.

Because I knew most of today would be concentrated on Dad, the kids and I celebrated Father's Day with Mike yesterday. We served him breakfast in bed and gave him his gifts: seasons 5 and 6 of Stargate-SG1 and an autographed copy of Glenn Beck's book An Inconvenient Truth. He also got to sleep in later than usual.