Half a century.

Daddy is 50 years young today! In celebration, here are 50 things you probably didn't know about him...

1. He is the youngest of four.
2. He is an engineer for SRS.
3. His transportation is a motorcycle.
4. He is the funniest person alive.
5. He calls me Bucket.
6. He has taught himself to play many many instruments, including guitar, banjo, piano, drums, etc.
7. His mind is incredibly creative; he used to help my siblings and I with projects and such.
8. His middle name is Alan.
9. He played soccer in college as a goalie.
10. He filmed hours and hours of our lives as we were growing up.
11. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
12. He used to DJ for all of our school dances. (The high school pageants, too.)
13. He gave me my middle name. (Brooke)
14. He  is the parent from which my siblings and I learned our sarcasm/humor/quick wit.
15. He's a trekkie.
16. He looks exactly like his father did.
17. He is relatively a quiet person (I take after him).
18. He helped coach the softball teams I was on.
19. He used to rock a mustache.
20. His favorite movie is The Blues Brothers.
21. He watched all of the Harry Potters so he could go with my siblings and I to the Deathly Hallows
part 2 midnight premier.
22. He is an avid reader.
23. He has two brothers and one sister.
24. He broke both arms when he was little. (I think he fell off of a tree.)
25. He can fix anything.
26. He gave his physical genes to Cody and Brandy.
27. He is a runner.
28. He rode the dragon on his motorcycle. (a winding, narrow, curvy road in the mountains)
29. He will "hit the deck" at every rapid.
30. He chews on toothpicks until there is barely anything left.
31. He is the master griller.
32. If our old (long time dead) dog, Scotty, was a person, he would be my dad.
33. He once burned me with boiling water on accident. (we were making macaroni and cheese)
34. He was the tooth puller and fairy.
35. He would call every single one of our pets "Biscuit."
36. He taught my siblings and I the Smartt family secret.
37. He knows how to turn a phrase for a paper. (He helped us plenty of times.)
38. He has done (possibly is still doing?) the Caveman Diet.
39. He used to play "Everybody Dance Now" on the stereo for us in the living room so he could
watch/film us dancing.
40. He tried a Krystal at the Krystal Headquarters in Chattanooga before it came out.
41. When he was little, he used to lay under the record player to watch the gears turn.
42. He wears contacts. (In fact, he is the one that contributed to my bad vision. :P)
43. He built us a fort in our backyard.
44. He is very handy with tools.
45. He is an incredible artist.
46. As a teen, he had perfect helmet shaped hair.
47. He had a red '68 or '69 Camaro. And I think he had it until Brandy was born; they traded it in for a
Ford Aerostar aka The Pimp Van.
48. His first worked at TVA before moving us to North Augusta to work at SRS.
49. He tans very quickly.
50. He used to put all of our drawings on the wall in his old office behind his computer. It was
completely filled.

Happy Birthday, Fah-jah!

I love you so much!!