In honor of Father’s Day, I asked the kids a question…
What do you love about your dad?
Tallula: *blink* *blink* (you’d think she didn’t really understand the question or something.)
Poppy: Ummmm. Ummmmm. (again, what’s with these two-year olds?)
Vivienne: He hugs me a lot. And we went to the beach last time, when we were old. (huh?)
Sophie: He puts on movies and lets us stay up late. And when he puts us in bed, sometimes he tickles us and then we try to get him back.
Isabelle: He hangs me sideways and he swings me. That makes me laugh. He helps me with my homework and reads to me.
Jude: He tickles me a lot. He tucks me in bed at night. And when he throws me up high, it makes me laugh. And he kisses me every single day.
Shepherd: He holds my hand when we go somewhere. He wrestles with me and we wrestle with him.
Dalton: He calms me down when I’m scared, like during that tornado. He’s not scared of anything. He plays football, basketball and baseball with me.
Asher: He always enjoys spending time with us. And he teaches us new things – he wants us to do whatever we do to the best of our ability, just like he does.
Happy Father’s Day, babe. I’m so glad you’re my guy.
These were taken with my Nikon D90 and a 50mm 1.4 lens. Settings for the first one were ISO 400, f/4.0, 1/500 sec. Edited in Lightroom with the Sarah-Ji Meadow preset. I’m not crazy about these pictures, but considering they were taken in honor of Father’s Day (and the fact that I don’t want to take another stab at it anytime soon), these will do.
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Happy Father’s Day, y’all.
Teri says
I love this idea of the kids telling what they love most about Dad!! Way to cute!
Becky says
These are all beautiful pics, what a great guy you’ve got there! Kinda makes me teary to read those sweet things that his kiddos have to say about him.
Tina´s PicStory says
great and beautiful family pics! 🙂
Pride in Photos says
You crack me up about what the two years didn’t have to say. Sure put a smile on my face. The family pictures are great…your too hard on yourself. They will be treasures in your home through out the years.
Laurie @ Pride In Photos
Lisa says
Happy Father’s Day to your Hubby!!!
These photos are great Stef…….and I love what the kids had to say about their sweet Dad!!!
Hope you have a fun day together~
xo,
Lisa
Kelly says
Great photos and I loved reading their thoughts about their wonderful Dad (kids say the darnedest things, right?)… have an awesome day together and enjoy!
Gina says
Oh my goodness- these are so special!!! You should dedicate a wall to these prints. Beautiful!!!!!
martha says
Such sweet photos love the emotions you captured…very very very sweet.
Jenn says
I love those pictures. Beautiful. Your kids are all beautiful, and sounds like they have adorable personalities to go with those adorable faces. Great family. I wish I could adopt 7 kids too.
Laura A says
The photos are precious. I know the kids will treasure having 1 on 1 pictures with their daddy.
Natalie says
What a great idea to have your kids say what they like best about their dad. Precious pictures!
Lisa says
now that brought tears to my eyes! so sweet!
Teresa says
Beautiful! All of them. 🙂 Hats off to your family – and to your hubby on his day!
tish says
my fave pic is him with shep. oh, been meaning to tell you…i showed scott your picture of “the kiss” when you came home from china…and later that week he was showing silas some pictures on our wall, one of which was a kissing one from our wedding and i have my hands on his face like C does in your picture, and he told silas, “that’s when mama had me in a ni hao y’all!”
NiHaoYall says
Oh my gosh, Tish. That is hilarious! I’m gonna go tell Chris, he’ll crack up 🙂
Carrie in Spokane says
Sweet pictures, Stefanie!
Michele says
This is the best Fathers Day post I’ve seen in a very long time. Very sweet. Very touching. The pictures are fabulous, but the one with Dalton has to be the sweetest picture ever, I absolutely love it. And the whole idea of asking each child what they love about there is, will be such a special memory to go back and read what they said. Thanks for sharing.
Andy says
Happy Father’s Day, Chris! I’ll bet you had a blast getting these photos done.
So, I came downstairs this morning, and there was a huge box on the dining room table. Sheryl ambushed me with a Radio Flyer wagon for Lucy! It’s like a plastic Lexus – the deluxe model with fold-up seats and cup holders. I’m well on my way to fatherhood, bud.
No Greater Love says
Stefanie, your pictures are beautiful. 🙂 Hope you are enjoying Father’s Day with your family!
No Greater Love says
Stefanie, your pictures are beautiful. Hope your family is having a wonderful Father’s Day!
kristi says
That’s a great idea Stefanie. What more could a father want than knowing in their own words what his kids love about him.
Great pictures too!
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April says
These are fun pictures. You did a great job and I love the narrative for each picture. I’m an old school photographer so I don’t know what lightroom does and how you process with presets. The results are great however. Thanks for sharing these.
Colleen says
This is the sweetest post ever!!! I loved it!!!!!!
Kristy Life n Reflection says
Beautiful, Beautiful ♥♥
LeeAnne says
🙂 I love your pics! And especially love what each treasure said! Who wouldn’t want him to be their Dad?!!
anything but LoKEY says
oooooh gurl! this post made me cry!! Great shots. 🙂