~Happy Birthday Daddy~

This is my father (Mark.) He sacrifices so much for his family...so that Momma can stay home and raise us girls (yes, my parents are still pouring into my life immensely and they're raising me...because I still have so much to learn and do even as a young adult woman.) My daddy is away from my momma, sister and I a lot while he is working, so that we can live in a lovely home, so that my momma can home-school my little sister and so that I can remain living at home until I am married one day. My daddy gives so much and he has the biggest heart of any man I have ever seen or heard of. My dad does things all the time for people at work and generally just anyone and everyone he comes into contact with. My sister and I never really hear of daddy's helping out others...daddy is a very humble hardworking man and so he does not puff himself up with talk of his acts of kindness and good deeds that his does daily for others...he is humble, not self-seeking, and he is righteous in the Lord, but not self-righteous/arrogant. My daddy has helped on scene with many accidents that have happened out on the road...even on some very dangerous situations...my daddy did not hesitate to help, and he went to them without thinking of personal gain or his own safety. 

My dad is the best! Daddy is a quiet leader, he's funny, he doesn't like to be alone, he's always been my biggest fan, he loves to watch a lot of movies on his off time like his daddy (my Papaw), he hates onions with a passion, he loves my momma, my sister and I enough to spend the majority of his time away from us because of his great love for us and because of him wanting us to have a nice home and things of which to call our own, he loves my momma to the moon and back and I love him to the moon and back too, a hundred times over!!!

(Me & Daddy)
I "luba yuba" very much daddy! You are the coolest truck driver and daddy any girl could ask for! Thank you for all the love you've shown me my whole life, the support you've given me, believing in my talents that God has gifted me with...you always rooted me on at piano recitals and you've read my poetry and said that I should be a writer and that my writings were beautiful, which meant the world to me! You've always told me I was beautiful....to the point where you wouldn't stop saying it until I reluctantly agreed with you...I love you for that! Thank you so much for the wonderful home in which I live, and that you allow me to continue to live in until you give my hand away one day. I think I've finally decided daddy that something might be okay now...I've changed my mind on this.....will you walk me down the aisle on my wedding day daddy?

~Happy Birthday Daddy~
With Love, Sarah-Belle

5 comments:

  1. Mrs. Hall or is it Mrs. Renee to you?April 09, 2010

    Sarah...What a sweet tribute to your dad! I know he is beaming! I can see his big smile now, but he is also smiling on the inside; because, he is so proud to be called your dad!I hope you wrote these in a letter to him, so he can tuck them away in his Bible and read them when he needs an extra hug from you!

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  2. Awww, that was so nice what you wrote about your dad! He must be so proud of you and I agree he' a super duper really nice guy. You couldn't have a better daddy in the world!

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  3. Maybe I should explain about the whole 'my dad's not gonna walk me down the aisle thing.' I used to think, until recently, that I would walk down the aisle solo. Well, my opinion has changed greatly on whether or not my daddy should in fact walk me down the aisle to give me away. I was watching 'Fiddler On The Roof' the other night...and to see the father (Reptavian) cry when his daughter left to marry, one off by herself, and one ran away to be married I thought "How could they deny their own father that very special gift of giving them away to the 'new man' in their life!?" Funny how life and opinions of things change daily during our 'life walk' huh? So that is the reasoning behind this comment....to sort out what this means for me and my daddy.

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  4. Hmm.. I never knew you didn't want your dad to walk you down the isle. Interesting my dear. Now that you have posted that to your readers.. why would you not want your dad to 'give you away' to your future husband?

    Your dad, Mark, is an excellent example of a Godly man, a family man and a committed friend. Happy Birthday to him from us here in Fay'ville!

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  5. Well, I just always thought that I would want to walk down the aisle alone....actually I always dreamed of getting married outdoors under an arch or gazebo covered in vines of some sort, wearing a long lacy Victorian-ish white dress, walking barefoot by myself towards my future husband. I guess I just didn't like the ideas of sticking to old traditions. I've always been very headstrong...and I like to do things my own way. Of course I felt that way about getting married and what my wedding day would be like before I actually fell in love for real for the first time. My opinions and thoughts on my wedding day have changed somewhat now.....like letting the first man who I ever loved with my whole heart (my daddy) being the one to give me away one day to the next man in my life to hold my whole heart (my future husband....hopefully it'll be Jared Fisher!)

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