yo pops!

dear padre,

today is the official day to celebrate you, which is cool, yet sorta lame in the sense that you don't need one day. because you are rad, and i love you. so i think i can celebrate you whenever i very well please to. but officially, today, you have celebrated 21 dias de los padres. maybe 22 if you count when i was just a wee fetus, but who knows. anyway, i would like to take this time out to be perfectly honest 'cuz there's a lot shi...just kidding, i wont rap an eminem song for you. however fitting it is, with the title "hailie's song"...okay getting off the freeway there. 

dad, you are such an amazing person and i feel like in the past i haven't shown that to you often, or even told you. but i really think you are. you are the greatest father anyone could ask for. you have a way of teaching us kids about life that is different from anyone else. supporting us to grow and foster our passions, yet staying close enough to us in case we fall and need help, which we usually do. i feel incredibly blessed to have you as a father. all of my fondest memories of growing up have been either at the las trampas swimming pool, or on vacation somewhere as a family. yosemite, bollibaka, hawaii, mendocino, tennesse, oklahoma, tahoe, san diego...any kid would be lucky enough to call you dad. 

you have instilled a sense of creativity, travel, independence, maturity, and humor in your kids, especially me (i like to hope) and i thank you for that. 

so "daddy-boy", 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, I LOVE YOU!!!

love, hay bay

one of my most favorite pictures ever:

and of course, a happy father's day shout out to my wonderful step father, TAP!

like i've said before, 

i have amazing step parents. 

Tap, you have been there as a dad for us for quite a while now...and i'm so glad you've stuck around with us crazies! i know we can be trying at times, a little chaotic and weird, but you know your life is more full because of it...and ours because of you :) 

happy father's day!

love, hailstorm

and well, no holiday would be complete on see.hay.fly without a batch of hysterical father's day cards.

[all available at someecards.net]

 haha, so true!

and this one made me seriously laugh out loud because yes, i have been there :)

happy father's day to all of the dad's out there :)

xo, hay