Happy Birthday, Dad!!!

Top Ten Memories of Dad on his Birthday 2007 (not necesarily from the year 2007):

10. The Shopsmith Phase: when Kendall and I were little, Dad bought a shopsmith and built us a swingset, a sandbox, and the most spectacular bunkbed/playhouse system I've ever seen--all from scratch.

9. Sunday afternoons at the Sheraton pool complete with trips to 7/11 for slurpees.

8. Walking through the woods as an 8 year old with Dad at Grandpa's farm looking for arrowheads and catching crawdads.

7. When we lived in Chesapeake during my high school years, Dad bought us a little Sunfish and taught us how to sail--he also taught me how to right the boat after it would keel all the way over by tipping it on purpose.

6. The time he drove across the country with a trailer full of my stuff for my move to New Mexico w/ Boo.

5. All the times he visited Grand Rapids while I was teaching, coming to our plays, video-taping Christimas Programs, and taking us out for good meals.

4. Walking me down the aisle in addition to everything else he did for our wedding.

3. The prayerful letters he sent to me through high school absences and college. I still have each one.

2. The many hours he spent with his children in the evenings after long days at work reading to us from the "God book," singing with us, and teaching us to love the Lord.

1. The night he explained to me the path of salvation and how it is achieved through Christ, and led me through the sinner's prayer.

Thanks, Dad for these and many more! Happy Birthday to you!!