Daddy-

Today's your day! Today I get to tell you just how lucky I am to have you be my dad. Today I get to remember all the lessons taught, laughter shared, blessings given, goofy days, and much more! Today I am grateful for you, well everyday I am but today I want you to know!

Thanks for all the lessons taught, At the time I hated them. Now I can appreciate our long never ending talks, I thought they were lectures but now that I'm a pretend grownup I realize all the love that went into them. You were the best driving coach, even if I burnt out a clutch or two! I realize now that you always knew best and always had my best interest in mind. I'm grateful for your calmness, you never forgot to show me respect, as you always had a calm voice and never yelled or threatened. For that I'm grateful.

I'm grateful for your testimony. I'm lucky to have a dad who teaches the gospel for a living and really loves and understands, and has always instilled its teachings into my mind, which lead deep into my hearts. I'm grateful for your dedication to the church. Your countless late bishop nights, your 5 AM stake meetings, the many girls camps you were a part of, your powerful teaching/speaking ability, though I cant recall ever actually sitting with you in church, I knew of your sacrifice! (well and moms for getting 5 kids ready and to church on time!)


I'm grateful for you blessings. Don't know how I would have ever gotten through school, tests, sicknesses, breakups, just life in general! Thanks for being a worthy priesthood holder its blessed my life tremendously!


Thanks for loving mom. You taught me I deserve nothing but the very best. You treat mom like an absolute Queen, and I feel very lucky to have parents that love each other so much, who have so much respect for each other. That's a blessing not many people have such a perfect love, yet I grew up with one and know just how life should be!

Thanks for your goofy, weird, sense of humor... I mean "umor!" There's always a time to be serious, but for my sake I'm glad that there's plenty more room for craziness! My friends loved coming over cuz they knew you'd have everybody laughing, whether it was singing loudly while making your own words, or showing us how you've mastered sticking your tongue up your nose, it didn't matter, we were always laughing! You are certainly one of the goofiest people I know, I wouldn't change that for a second, I'm grateful for the endless nights of laughing and goofing off, it certainly gave a whole new outlook on life for me. I know I lack seriousness because of this but you always say, sometimes our biggest strength can become our greatest weakness! Lucky for me you taught Austin early on in our relationship this large quirk about me and he handles it well! :)

You are the best fixer. Anything from a burnt out spark plug to more serious stuff, I wouldn't know the more serious stuff, that was always your job and you did it well! You always fixed the chain on my bike, and patched my tire holes. You taught me to be a hard worker!


Thanks for being the best dad out there! I'm lucky to have you hope you know just how much I love you!----

Plans

My plans for the night consist of:

these beauties... + Kanyin

A must have---
Praying he doesn't reappear,
and loving this!

Flashback.

Working at a high school, I always have that end of year time to look back and see where my life has taken me. Its so crazy! As I was sitting in the end of school year assembly I couldn't help think back from when I was in high school... my how my life has changed! Certainly for the better but its just fun to see your own life take shape!

5 yrs ago my universe revolved around these beauties:


Weekends consisted of:
Midnight bowling in Bountiful, Bon fires up Farmington Canyon, driving around pointlessly for hours on end, the cat walk, princess park, and just plain finding the most random stuff to do!


I wanted to be a phlebotomist/eventual nurse

Family, well they were still great, but friends were definitely a bit greater!


Worked a part time job, and thought my life was busy with such responsibility.

Now :
My universe revolves around this "Man dime"


And our friends we've made along the way!


Weekends consist of cleaning, yard work, laundry, motorcycle rides, boating, and whatever activity we can find that is next to free! Driving around pointlessly is not even an option, we need to save that precious gas money for another bill!!
I learned that phlebotomy was NOT my thing, instead I've invested 1,620 hours into beauty school!haha first perm I ever rolled! (Don't judge!)

Family, well I'd die if my mom didn't answer her phone for our 12 phone call of the day! If I didn't get to see them almost everyday, it'd be bad news bears!



Now working 2 jobs, and going to school, pretty sure I had NO idea what busy was!

So after all that I'm grateful to be where I am today, with who I am! We wouldn't trade our friends for anything, you wont find better families than ours, and we love our adventure along this path of life!