Showing posts with label World's Best Dad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World's Best Dad. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Happy Birthday - Let's Grow Old Together

He is the best dad,
tells the best bedtime stories,
has the greatest imagination ever. 
Is the perfect combination of tender and playful.
 
He is the greatest teacher,
teaching the kids his every skill set
while they are young and interested.
He has taught the kids
how to make cookies
how to change the oil in the car
and properly clean from top to bottom.
 
He's the most patient man ever.
Clearly as he deals with me on a regular basis.
He's the father to four kids
and a host of others through foster care.
He's a great puppy trainer.
 
He's the best employee.
The ultimate peacemaker with no ego.
He builds everyone around him up,
works hard and is innovative.
He's the best husband.
He makes me feel loved, treasured and like royalty.
He compares me to his favorite role model
calling me "Josephina".
 
He is Mr. Fix it.
He can fix anything under the sun.
And has with no prior knowledge.
Our garage door, our cars, anything!!!
 
He's brilliant.
His mind can comprehend things
I'll never understand.
He can figure out how anything works
by taking it apart.
 
He is a hard worker.
Whether working for other an employer
or running our own business,
he works hard enough to make anything a success.
 
He is service minded.
He helps volunteer in a million ways
at our church officially and non officially.
He helps in the community
and is the first to help another person.
 
He's fiercely handsome.
Beyond his sexy cleft chin and amazing jawline,
he has magnificent green eyes
and cheekbones that make me jealous.
 
Travis, you meet and exceed
my every expectation.
I'll love you forever.
Let's grow old together.
Happy Birthday!

Friday, June 24, 2011

FaThEr'S dAy

I was going to be out of town on Father's Day.
In Utah actually and then flying home. 
But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate this dude. 
The World's Best Dad. 
So June 12th, the kids and I woke up early,
made a surprise breakfast, and finally let Dad in on our plans
for the Father's Day switcheroo.
He was sleepy eyed but loving the french toast and bacon.
"Surely the greatest of those things [required of fathers] will be
to have done all they could for the happiness and spiritual safety
of the children they are to nurture."
Jeffrey R. Holland
Travis epitomizes this.  And so knowingly he wanted for Father's Day
outdoor/lawn games to continue to make the most of our
family time together.
"A father succeeds when he steps forward and
accepts his commitment as a father, always loving, praying for and
doing what he can for his family, and never giving up."
Loren Dunn
So of course we got him a set of horseshoes, his first choice,
 to show him that we want to do what we can for him too.
"Brethren, as fathers and patriarchs in our families,
we are “by divine design … to preside over [our] families
in love and righteousness and are …
to provide the necessities of life and protection for [our] families. …
Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility
to love and care for each other and for their children."
L. Tom Perry & The Proclamation to the Family
I love to make this man happy.
And so of course once he picked me up from the airport
on actual Father's Day we celebrated all over again,
including more gifts.
"In terms of your happiness, in terms of the matters that make you
proud or sad, nothing—I repeat, nothing—
will have so profound an effect on you
as the way your children turn out."
Gordon B. Hinckley
This is something that Travis knows and so his life reflects that.
I really do think I am the luckiest girl in the world.