This year instead of a 'Father's Day celebration it was more like a Father's Day Weekend celebration. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were spent celebrating Dad. My kids are extremely blessed with a dedicated and devoted father and a little extended celebrating was just what he deserved!
Because Sundays are overwhelmingly chaotic with getting our crew ready for church, driving 45 minutes to church, wresting little ones for an hour and a half during the church service (we do not have a nursery at our church ~ nor would we use one if we did, we prefer to train up our children in the church service with us), serving up our large crew the fellowship meal, and then driving the 45 minutes back home; I decided to prepare my husband his favorite meal on Friday.
He did not request this and it was a surprise from my kiddos and me. His favorite meal takes about 4 hours to make (added time because I have to basically triple everything for our large family). So Friday afternoon was spent making four homemade deep dish pizzas, a giant pan of cheesy bread, and a blackberry pie. Everything was made from scratch and much of the ingredients were picked fresh from our little homestead. He was pleasantly surprised when he came in from work to say the least!
Saturday the children who had extra money took their daddy out to eat at a fine dining restaurant to eat a steak dinner. Each child paid for their own meal and contributed to their daddy's meal. I stayed behind with the little bitty ones and the children who made/bought a gift for their Daddy. The eating-out crew ended up getting a late start since my oldest had to work so they arrived at the restaurant later than they had planned and it was crowded!! They ended up getting bumped to a smaller table and due to the over-crowding an entire soda was spilled in my husband's lap (poor guy). Because it was so crowded he ended up having to clean up the mess ~ at least his meal was good, lol!!
Sunday was church of course and as is custom my husband made his famous omelettes for everyone. I offered to cook but he said he wanted to eat his omelettes on his special day. Then we we got home from church he grilled a ton of meat for himself, his dad, and the rest of us. I hate that he chose to do all the cooking on Father's Day, but I guess he was in his element and he thoroughly enjoyed his food.
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| Father's Day 2019 |
He did not request this and it was a surprise from my kiddos and me. His favorite meal takes about 4 hours to make (added time because I have to basically triple everything for our large family). So Friday afternoon was spent making four homemade deep dish pizzas, a giant pan of cheesy bread, and a blackberry pie. Everything was made from scratch and much of the ingredients were picked fresh from our little homestead. He was pleasantly surprised when he came in from work to say the least!
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| Father's Day Pizza Extravaganza |
The pizza choices for our Father's Day meal was cheese, pepperoni, spicy buffalo chicken, and supreme.
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| Homemade Deep Dish Supreme Pizza |
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| Homemade Blackberry Pie |
The blackberry pie was made with berries picked fresh from our bushes. It may not be the prettiest pie but it sure was yummy!
When your family can't wait for the pie to cool a little and set this is what it looks like, lol! At least the pizzas were pretty.
Saturday the children who had extra money took their daddy out to eat at a fine dining restaurant to eat a steak dinner. Each child paid for their own meal and contributed to their daddy's meal. I stayed behind with the little bitty ones and the children who made/bought a gift for their Daddy. The eating-out crew ended up getting a late start since my oldest had to work so they arrived at the restaurant later than they had planned and it was crowded!! They ended up getting bumped to a smaller table and due to the over-crowding an entire soda was spilled in my husband's lap (poor guy). Because it was so crowded he ended up having to clean up the mess ~ at least his meal was good, lol!!
Sunday was church of course and as is custom my husband made his famous omelettes for everyone. I offered to cook but he said he wanted to eat his omelettes on his special day. Then we we got home from church he grilled a ton of meat for himself, his dad, and the rest of us. I hate that he chose to do all the cooking on Father's Day, but I guess he was in his element and he thoroughly enjoyed his food.
The kids and I put together a goody basket full of their Daddy's favorite snack foods and a gift card for Longhorn Steakhouse.
We also made him these cute little popsicles with sweet notes of why each of the children think their daddy is the "coolest". I found this craft for free over at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Ok I know y'all may find this totally weird but I wanted to share about the tasty peanuts!! These happen to be one of my hubby's favorite snack foods. I'm sure I can order them online, but the only place can find them locally is at the Dollar Tree. If you can find a container you should totally give them a try!!
I think my husband had a wonderful Father's Day weekend, at least he keeps raving about it and said he felt extra-specially loved. (Which was my hopeful intentions!) He also said he was going to have to step up his Mother's Day celebration 'game', haha now that was not my intentions at all. Even though I had a tough time coming up with a gift to show my husband how much he means to me being the father of our children, I believe this year me and the kiddos actually got it right 😍.
So how did y'all celebrate the special father in your life?
With Love & Hope,
Jennifer
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