Daddy's Day.

Alan Terry Joyce, daddy, father, padre, daddy-o, a t cool j, dad;
i want to start off by saying Happy Fathers Day to the best daddy in the world! i hope you enjoy it.
there are so many things i want to say but i don't know how.
1) you re a great dad! that's simple. you have a hard job to hold up. you provide for our family very well, and i cant be more thank full for that.
2) you stuck around. being a dad can be and is scary. most dads don't make it this far, i am so glad you did. i cant imagine my life i with out you.
3) you raised me right. you have made me the kind, courteous person i am today. you have taught me to love God, the outdoors and family. you've been a role model, showing me respect, love and compassion. you've raised me to be a down-home country girl, and i love that more than anything.
As i am growing up and realizing what is important and what isn't i see the "you" in me. we are so much alike, i mean for heavens sake look at our freaky Joyce feet, and our initials. (: we aren't as close as some father daughter relationships, but i pray that someday we will be.
Daddy, i will always be your little girl, no matter how old i look. i am still that little rowdy girl inside. (: Yes, i get a little bit of an attitude sometimes, and i snap at you and mom but i want you to know i don't mean it. i am a hormonal teenage girl, sorry.
we're both growing up, and learning, hang in there. i am about to graduate in 2 years. can you believe it daddy? Ive waited for this time my whole life. aren't you proud? but don't you worry, no matter how far away college is i will never forget where i came from. i promise i will be back, to this sleepy ole town, the town that made me.
you inspire me in so many ways, and you hold our family together; i love that. things are always changing: clothes, phones, technology, but one thing that will never change is how much i love my daddy.
there is no way humanly possible to thank you enough for anything and everything you've done and do for me.
I Love You So So SO much, dad. words cant come close to explaining.
Love, Your little girl. <3

One last breath.

as humans we tend to live life like we have many years ahead of us, when truly, we arent promised anything.

..one of my friends was in a bad car accident,

Daniel Hoover pulled out of Wal-Mart in Elkin, and was t-boned on his side of the car.

this opened my eyes so much,

things happen, that you would never expect in a million years,

do you think he thought as he pulled out, a car could hit me, i could have an accident, i could die..

what if you just took your last breath, what if you had an accident, what if your mom or dad just took their last breath, what if you never got to tell your bestfriend goodbye before she died.

we dont realize how unforgiving this life is.

tend to fill ourselves up with useless materialistic things that we think make us happy.

we have this comfort that this world will treat us right, but in all seriousness, its out to get us.

cheating us, scamming us, decieving us, filling our heads with false information.

you never know when your time will come, and you need to be ready.

be strong the Lord, and know you will spend forever with him. 

make a relation ship so beautiful, and to trusting, that no one or nothing can come between..

..cause you never know when you might take your last breath.

O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things, even purposes planned of old in faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 25: 1