Father's Day

Hola and Happy Father’s Day!

This is a very fun day because Frank is HERE, isn’t that wonderful! We get him for 48 hours, including a few hours on Father’s Day.

Here is the Origin of Father's Day, which you may or may not know:

Sonora Dodd, of Washington, first had the idea of a "father's day." She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.

After Sonora became an adult she realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

Of course, I am thinking about my dad today. I gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting on "Leadership," and included a few examples of him from our family, growing up. I created these pages for my kids’ scrapbooks, in his honor (you can click on them to enlarge--I know the old photos of him are tiny in that 2nd one). These are photos of some of the cousins and family at the funeral last September, in Tucson. It was good to be with family, even though it was a sad event. I hope to do more pages of him, after my mom sorts through the photos she has, and gives some to the rest of us.

I just desperately don’t want my children to "forget" him. I know my kids won’t really know him like I did. But at least with photos, they'll remember what he LOOKED like, and that makes people more real. It's a start.




(Paper by AmyLeigh's Designs, godigitalscrapbooking . Elements by Jessica Alger, godigitalscrapbooking. Butterfly by Vicki Stegall, Oscraps.)

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."

Have a great day! Love, Kari