Happy Birthday Big Brother!

Happy birthday to the greatest big brother! Wish I could be celebrating with you!

High School Graduation

Family Time

More Family Time

(Like that random clip-art there? That was my lame attempt at covering Jake's 

not family-friendly hand symbols, which pretty much just made it a lot more noticeable.)

Vacation

Pre-Big Sister's Wedding Family Time

I hope your partying it up down in Florida, regardless of the horrible weather that is going on there right now. Don't get into too much trouble!

(P.S. I was going to write some super-nice-journey-down-memory-lane stuff here. But then, I realized that he will probably never read this. Oh, well. At least I thought about it.)

Love you Jake!

Father's Day

June 2011

October 2010

I'm a little bummed that I can't spend Father's Day with my pops this year, but I'm thankful that I got to spend the last few weeks with him. And, when I called him earlier to wish him a happy father's day he was at Lowe's, and I had just gotten back from Home Depot, so it's almost like we spent the day together (kind of, not really). 

Thanks for everything you've done for me, especially the things that I know you really didn't want to do:

Prom dress shopping (several years in a row)

All the times you've gone shopping with me, even though you know it is going to take a million hours

Putting up with my insane friends that never seemed to leave our house for more than five minutes at  time

Being nice to boyfriends brought home during high school

College Tours

Sorority Parent's Day

Driving to and from campus to help me move because I had too much stuff for my car to handle

Helping my move all my junk to MI (again, two vehicles)

Being open minded to trying the vegetarian meals I make so that we didn't have to eat different meals every night

Supporting me in the decision to move to a state where I knew no one, at only 18 years old

And so much more...

So, thanks again! I can't tell you how much I appreciate everything you've done for me!

Love you Dad!

And happy Father's Day to all the other dads out there as well!

xoxo