Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday, Dad!

I love you! I am thankful to be your daughter!

I should have warned all the Missionaries in The Montana Billings

Mission not to mess with their President..... I am sure they learned

in time that he loved them with every inch of his heart.

This picture speaks thousands of words. It is one I am

certainly happy I did not crop out the background. Here is

my dad, sleeping in Grandma Hoglund's chair at her

house in American Fork. This is where I picture her with

the curtains, the chair, the crocheted afghan,

and the front door exactly like that.

I could listen to Grandma talk for hours and hours from that

chair. It was also the place to sit and listen to my Aunts and

Uncles tell stories that would make every one laugh so hard they

would cry.

Dad, I hope you get a great nap today....or, as you would

tell us as children...I hope you get to go to "never-never-land"

for a few hours today.

August 1983, New Jersey

Dad displaying his Birthday Gifts

Fall 1981
After a Saturday Morning Race. Dad entered hundreds
(maybe thousands) of Races over the years.
Even though he is no longer competing each week,
he is still a winner! He can run circles around me in
any given day with the energy level he and my mother maintain.
Just hearing their schedules makes me tired!
My dad exposed me to the finer things in life; such as Parker's
Drive In located in his Hometown, American Fork, Utah.
When visiting Utah, I have been known to drive from Salt Lake
just to get my "Parker's Fix"
Happy Birthday, Dad!
May this day be full of peace and joy!

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