- He called me Anne Kay sometimes....I liked it.
- He was on his way to the temple with family names in his pocket when he died.
- He loved the temple, and loved serving there.
- He did his home teaching the night before he passed away.
- He helped me paint "my" cemetery fence, because he knew and cared about "our people." (and because he wasn't too old)
- His voice is the voice I hear every time I read anything by Dr. Seuss.
- My earliest memory of him is him holding me and reading Dr. Seuss with me, I think I memorized Hop on Pop just for him.
- He made the yummiest waffles you ever ate.
- He was the nicest babysitter I ever had.
- He was always so very happy to be with family, it was visible and contagious.
- He always remembered and asked about something going on in my life, it made me feel important.
- He loves my silly, crazy Grandma.
- He never turned down an opportunity to serve others or to help someone in need.
- He was a Marine in World War II, but would never talk about what he did, or what it was like. Because he did it because it was the right thing to do, and he was no better than anyone else who did what they had to do to.
- I never heard him say anything bad about anyone, ever.
- He loves my mom, and he is a good dad to her. He gave her a happy life, and taught her what was important, and gave her lots of love. She shared those things with us so we could be happy too.
- He tried lots of crazy things, like flying an airplane, and hiking scary mountains, because he was never too old to try new things.
- He was a selfless, patient caregiver, to lots of people. His service to them impacted a lot of people's lives.
- He liked to fish.
- He is the best example of humility, sacrifice, and service that I could ever hope to have or follow.
So, I recently took after my sisters and made a lengthy list. Mine is of house projects I would like to do, or save up for (is more realistic). My first project was to move my birthday present from Jeremy, a Pacific State fire hydrant, from my patio so we wouldn't be the junk yard neighbors. Birthday Present 2010 Pre Make Over Although it was a good looking hydrant before I started working on it, our patio is only 10' and it was a little out of place, and in the way. A little TLC is understatement. I took the entire hydrant apart (hydrant anatomy lesson post forthcoming), drilled new holes in different pieces, greased it up, repainted it, designed and implemented a new plumbing system and........ VOILA!!! I had a brand new sprinkler for our flower bed/veggie garden. Note: there are three sprinklers built into the hydrant, which I might have connected to our landscape sprinkler system without permission from the HOA. Also n...
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