I am very blessed to have a wonderful and loving father.
A photo of me and my dad on Father's day. My father worked very hard to provide for my family and sacrificed much for my brother and I. He is the type of guy who would give the shirt off of his back, if a friend or loved one needed it.
A photo of my father and I at my college graduation.
Tim and Dad at my and Tim's wedding...two goof balls.
My boys are also extremely lucky to have Tim as a father. He spends so much time with them, loving them, teaching them and showing them the love that the Father God has for each of us.
Daddy and Dustin last Christmas.
Daddy with both boys--sleeping safely in his arms.
Daddy and Jackson on Jackson's birthday!
In honor of Father's day, below are a few quotes about fathers:
for his children is to love their mother."
~~Author Unknown
"To her the name of father was another name for love."
~~By Fanny Fern.~~
"They didn't believe their father had ever been young;
surely even in the cradle he had been a very,
very small man in a gray suit,
with a little dark mustache and flat, incurious eyes."
~~By Richard Shattuck.~~
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born.
Men grow into fathers-
and fathering is
a very important stage in their development."
~~By David M. Gottesman.~~
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
~~By William Shakespeare (1564-1616)~~
"It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was."
~~By Anne Sexton (1928-1974) U.S. poet.~~
"I cannot think of any need in childhood
as strong as the need for a father's protection."
~~By Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)~~
"A Man's children and his garden both reflect the
amount of weeding done during the growing season."
~~Author Unknown.~~
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. ~Author Unknown
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
"The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God, and I call him Dad!"
~~Author Unknown.
