Happy 80th Birthday, Dad!

It's my dad's birthday today -- 80 years!

I am so blessed to have both my parents alive and kicking (but not very hard). Dad still goes to work everyday, he teaches the Gospel Doctrine Sunday School class every other Sunday, he goes home teaching, does all the grocery shopping, takes orders from Mom, helps her like he's never helped her in their married life, he walks every day to keep in shape, prays for Mom, his children, grandchildren (especially the ones on missions) in every prayer he offers, and much more.

Dad grew up in Salt Lake -- 427 Kensington Ave. He is an Eagle Scout and was part of the first ever rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Cataract Canyon rapids long before Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell (he later did some enginnering work for the construction of Glen Canyon Dam). He graduted from South High School in 1947 and the University of Utah in 1951 (the same year he and Mom got married). He has a degree in Mechanical/Civil Engineering from the "U". Dad played football in high school and at the "U". He has always been fond of Utah sports and enjoys a good win over BYU. Dad served in the Army at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey during the Korean Conflict -- Army Intelligence. He's been a Bishop twice for a total of 15 or so years, he has owned and managed his own business, and has set his sons up for success in their work. Of his eight children, all but one are U of U graduates -- education, business (CPA), communications, and law (JD). His posterity will number 53 by the middle of June.

This is beginning to sound like an obituary, so I'll end now -- Happy Birthday to a Great Dad!