Why my Dad is my Favorite Person

Today is Father’s Day and I have the best dad ever. Everybody’s kinda supposed to say that on Father’s Day but when I say it I’m definitely accurate. I have had this opinion since forever.. and specifically remember one day when my mom asked little mini me who I was gonna marry and I said Dad. Then my mom had to break it to me that she already snatched him up and polygamy (and incest) isn’t really supported by our religion.. or like anyone. I can remember the legitimate confusion at this point.. “there is no one else as cool as him..? I guess I’ll never get married.. ever”. I’ve moved past this phase in my life but still think my mom is the luckiest lady ever.

I have a couple prime examples of why my dad is the best ever...

1. He is the best man to go shopping with EVER.. Because he almost always likes whatever I’ve decided I like.

2. When I had my first kiss we went out to dinner.

3. He loves freeds, and neilsons, and red mango almost as much as I do.

4. He makes the best bread in the world.

5. He boxed with me in the backyard in the middle of night.

6. He gives the best hugs ever.

7. He adores my mom.

8. I love the sound of his voice in church during hymns.

9. No one will ever be able to throw feet like he does.

10. He carried me to bed till I was like 18.. so now (I missed that the last time I came home)

11. Sometimes when he really wants to say something he writes a letter. Those letters are some of my most prized possessions.

12. He let me shave his head once.

13. He has the best deep “ga faw” kinda laugh in the world.

14. When I hit the parallel parking parallel parking barrel at the DMV and left that nice paint scratch, it didn’t even phase him.

15. I have gotten a “goodmorning, I hope you have the best day ever!” Text basically every day since the beginning of my highshool career.

16. He’s that dad who gets up early to fill up your truck with gas and make you a lunch.

17. He sends me texts like “We are at the stake dance…I feel bad for these boys…the hottest girl here is taken. I married her almost 23 yeas ago… J”

18. He is very patient; even at 1 am when you’re calling because you can’t sleep due to the horror film you watched the day before.

19. I always know my dad wants to talk to me and hang out with me. Someone will always think I’m cool.

20. He’s up to ride a rollercoaster, get in a tube, go climb up the side of a mountain and run down, or jump off a cliff with me.

 

There is no boy on the face of this earth that as quite came to mean as much to me as my dad. There’s nothing while at school that makes me quite as homesick as thinking about him or talking to him. Nothing makes me cry faster than hugging him good-bye when I have to go back to school. And the most powerful and immediate moment of home-ness is when he picks me up from the airport in one of his big hugs. He taught me how to serve in little ways that really are the life-altering ways and shown me what it means to just be good all the way through. I love my dad, there is no one else that could teach me who I need to be in the way he has.