Happy Birthday Dad

Dad and I at the Oregon State vs. Arizona State football game (Oct 2012)

Today is my dad's birthday.  I have a book called, The Secret Languages of Birthday's and it tells the traits of a person based on the day that they were born. It is really fun to read and seems to be pretty accurate for the people that I have read their birthdays.  (I realize that with any astrological writing we see what applies and ignore what doesn't but that's not the point.)  Each day has a title and then proceeds to tell traits, strengths, weaknesses of those born on that day.  January 8th is called The Day of the Big Bang, and that seems quite appropriate for my dad. 

The thing that I remember about my dad's birthday growing up was German Chocolate cake.  I don't honestly know if German Chocolate cake is his favorite cake or was at one time but every year for his birthday we would get German Chocolate cake.  My grandma still makes German Chocolate cake when we go to celebrate my dad's birthday.  That is one thing that I definitely got from my dad, was my love of chocolate.  Neither of my brothers are really chocolate fans. They like it well enough and will eat it but they do not crave and eat it the way that my dad and I do.  There are many other things that I have inherited from my dad besides the chocoholic gene and I am really grateful that he is my dad.  Unfortunately I didn't have any German Chocolate cake to eat today but I did have a piece of blueberry pie tonight in honor of dad's birthday.  Happy birthday Dad!

Redwood National Park - July 2012