60 things I love about my Dad :)

1.Rubbing his head after he gets a crew cut 2.His freshly shaven cheeks

3.The alliteration he uses in his sermons 4.His sermons are less than 20 minutes

5.His calves 6.How he cries at movies, birthday cards, etc. :) 7.How he loved his mama 8.How he loves my mama 9.How he kept a little index card with all of my basketball stats at every game 10.How he came to EVERY game 11.His dog/lawn mower joke 12.His chuckle laugh 13.How he talks incessantly while playing 42 14.How he always knows the right thing to say in difficult situations, like deaths

15.His bright orange sweater 16.His bright orange sweater with his bright blue shorts 17.His bright orange sweater with his bright blue shorts and his black dress socks 18.Our shared love of Survivor 19.How he has read the Bible completely through for the last 20+ years 20.How he taught me to stand up for what is right 21.How he taught me G-O-M (God - Others - Me) 22.How fast he can watch a football game with his DVR 23.How he always has chapstick and breathmints in his pocket 24.How he smells after he shaves 25.How he has an amazing green thumb and can grow anything 26.How he falls asleep with his mouth wide open 27.How he jumps out of his chair when I scare him when he's asleep 28.How he’s ticklish and pretends it makes him mad when I tickle him 29.His half-court hook shot 30.How he hides chocolate and thinks I can’t find it 31.How he packages up all of the leftovers into TINY servings after every meal 32.How he picks his clothes out every night 33.How he gets irritated when mama makes a comment about the clothes he picks out 34.How he says it’s 7 when it’s 6:05

35.How he honks the horn to scare mama when she gets near the car 36.How he took us on family vacations 37.How he loves my husband 38.How he loves my children 39.How he’s good with troubled teenagers 40.How he loved me even when I was a troubled teenager :) 41.How he cut up toast into tiny pieces for me every time I was sick 42.How HE writes random THINGS in his emails in ALL CAPS 43.How he can tell you what happened 17 years ago today in your life 44.How my son Caedmon looks just like him 45.How he drives 10 miles under the speed limit (and denies it) 46.How he can get Jesus into a conversation with someone within 5 minutes 47.How he loves to volunteer at CTLC food/clothes pantry 48.How he brags on me to everyone he knows 49.How he saved up enough to buy me and my sister bicycles from a pawn shop when we were dirt poor in seminary 50.How we never knew we were dirt poor in seminary 51.How he sat on the edge of the bathtub with me in the middle of the night when I was five and my stomach hurt 52.How he always killed spiders for me 53.How he loves getting older 54.How he makes awesome cinnamon bread and pancakes 55.How he’s one of the few men who can pull off a sweater vest 56.How he baptized me and was the preacher at my wedding 57.How he always had $1 in his pocket for me (and still does) 58.How he's the best ever grocery shopper (way better than Mom!)

59.How he sings loud and usually has the right note 60. How he loves me I could have come up with 60 more. I love you Daddy - Happy 60th Birthday!! :)