I love my Dad.

I love my Dad. He's pretty awesome. Although I love BYU, beautiful Utah, and married life, it gets pretty hard sometimes to be so far away from my family. Especially on days like Father's Day. I'll be excited when someday Chad and I grow up and move away from Utah and hopefully move closer to my family, wherever they may be. Anyways, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about how amazing my dad is.

He and I are "kindred spirits", if you will. He taught me to love things being clean and organized and to have a very structured life. He taught me that peanut butter with hydrogenated oils should be avoided at all costs, you should only ever eat the kind you can stir: (nutty, of course).
He taught me that after a beach trip, all sand must be completely removed from all body surfaces (aka feet) or else who knows what would happen.
He was the one who sat down with me in 5th grade and helped me figure out how to think through word problems from my math class, even though I absolutely hated it!He was the one who made me keep taking piano lessons through middle school even when I said I hated it and wanted to quit. I wish now I would have kept playing, if only I had known that he was making me take piano lessons because he loved me. He just wanted me to have the opportunities to do things that he never got to do. I should have just realized that parents are almost always right.
He taught me how to work. I hated pulling weeds on Saturday mornings, but my dad made us do it, and I'm so glad he did.


He's the "cool dad", always taking us fun places, hanging out with our friends, doing fun things, etc. Some of my favorite memories of my dad are of the fun family vacations we got to go on and the opportunity he gave us to try new things.

mountain biking

snowboarding

boating...

My dad is always supportive of everything we do, he loves us unconditionally and is constantly an example to us of how to live our own lives.

He's always there to catch me when I fall (or jump).

Plus, my Dad has an amazing sense of fashion. Check out these jeans and sweatshirt. Sweet.
I love my Dad.