Little Known Facts About My Pa

• He grew up on a dairy farm in the Panhandle of Oklahoma.
• He was in a plane crash when he was 8 years old.
• He once lead the youth group on a short hike that turned into a day long trek to the highest point in Oklahoma.  We started calling him Moses!
• His first date with my mom was a blind date.
• He’s worked for the same company for 31 years even though it’s been sold 4 times.
• He was 18 years old when he married my mom.
• He sold his prize registered Holstein heifer, Penny, and bought a Porsche.
• He sold his Porsche when mom got pregnant since it was only a two seater.
• He can name the make and model of any airplane as it flies by.
• He laughs at his own jokes!
• He was selected to interview with producers for the reality TV show Survivor.
• Every time my sister was dating dad always said, “Do you think he’s the one that can help you find the answers?!”  Taken from a line in It’s a Wonderful Life.

• He was 20 years old when he became a dad.
• He’s an outdoorsman.  Whether it’s riding the four wheeler, hunting, working in the garden or feeding the cows, he enjoys being outside.
• He is just as much a part of my mom’s family as the blood relatives.
• One time when mom was out of town, he made my sister and I eat rice that we thought was gross.  After he had already had a couple of bowls, we realized that the rice had gone bad and actually had tiny worms in it!  He just said, oh well they were cooked so it’s just protein!
• Even in the middle of the night he is willing to get up to kill a cricket since my mom hates them!
• When mom and dad were youth group directors, mom always said he acted more like one of the youth then one of the adults!
• He would say that living on a farm in Oklahoma, “It just don’t get any better then this!”

 

 

It takes a special man to raise daughters.  He is the head of our household and the disciplinarian, but he is the most patient and kindest person I know.  However, the most important thing that you need to know about my dad is that he is an amazing man of God who has raised me to follow after God with everything that I am.