Memories

Dear Dad,

Sorry it has been a couple of days since we have talked, it has been a little busy lately because we only have 23 days left until the wedding!! I am getting soooo excited. It will be nice to start the next chapter in our lives together. We had our pre-marriage meeting with the Pastor last night and found out that our relationship is actually really healthy! So that is good :) It made me feel so blessed to talk to the pastor not only because I am going to have an amazing husband but because I had an amazing upbringing. Pastor Chris asked us a lot of questions on how we view family and what our goals are for the future of our family. So many of the things that I see and feel are important for our family were right in line with where they should be from a biblical standpoint. Most of what I believe is just based on the great childhood I had and what a great example I had to follow. Everything that I believe about family and marriage I have learned from you, dad. I know that you didn’t have the most perfect marriages but you learned over time how to perfect marriage, I just wish you had the chance to enjoy that with Seedie a little longer. You taught me how to be loving and understanding but to still be firm. I know that my life with Aaron and our future family is going to be great because of the example you set. You told me and showed me so much about how to treat the ones you love and how to treat children. I am so blessed that you’re my dad. It has made me more confident in getting married and I know that Aaron and I are going to be married until we are old and gray with lots of little grand kids to spoil.

It makes me smile to think about when we were kids. Almost all of my memories are with you. I love that we camped usually about twice every year. I cannot wait to take my kids camping!! And even though I always called you a dork when I was a kid, I secretly loved the fact that all my friends though, “your dad is sooo cool!”, which you were. I think it will be the same way with our kids someday. Do you remember the time that I had a birthday party sleepover? You were goofing off with all my friends and at one point you had locked yourself in your bedroom and were shoving your backscratcher under the door to get our feet or something. Then Lauren snatched it from you! We couldn’t find it for a couple days until one day you went into the refrigerator to get some ketchup or something and there it was, sitting in the door of the fridge. That is one of my favorite memories. My slumber parties wouldn’t have been the same without my dad teasing my friends :) Maybe I will save more stories for later. I get that from you, you know, telling stories. Even though I would roll my eyes when you would tell me the same thing for the eleventeenth time, I really did like it. It was one of your quirks that made you who you were and who you were makes me who I am. Who am I? I am the daughter of Phillip Joseph Thompson, the greatest dad ever.

Love you bunches,
Cassie Winnie