on your birthday, I want to say...

...thanks for choosing me to be your daughter.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I miss you...

...and I hope you and mom are being nice to each other. ;)

I love you.

things I miss...

- the toothbrush joke

- the way he'd say he was 5' 19" when people would ask how tall he was

- the way he drove

- mexi mess

- how he'd sleep through football games, but if you changed the channel his eyes popped open and he could tell you the score

- how he and mom were together before things went south

- the way he made everyone laugh

- how he tied my shoes on the way to preschool and kindergarten - totally unsafe for both of us

- how he taught me to tie my shoes (learning how to do it left handed and in a way that worked for me first)

- his "gun in the airport" jokes (that's what mom called them when he was being super "inappropriate")

- song lyrics

- his obsession over stereo equipment

- listening to him give talks in sacrament