Thanks Dad!

I just want to make it known to all who read this, how much I appreciate my dad! Sometimes I don't thank him enough for everything he has done for me but I really do appreciate it. Thanks mostly for teaching me about the saving ways of Jesus Christ! Without you or him, I would be lost. I love you!



I also want to say thank you to my Grandpa who has been a big encouragment to me! Thanks for all your words of wisdom! God Bless you!!!!


And know for some interesting facts about Fathers Day...
Sonora Dodd, of Washington, first had the idea of a "father's day." She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.

After Sonora became an adult she realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972.

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb

Official Flower of Father's Day: Rose - wear red for living father and white for deceased father.

Father's Day is the fifth most popular card-sending holiday, with an estimated $100 million in card sales. Husbands, grandfathers, uncles, sons and sons-in-law are honored as well as father.