From Kody:

From my blue book. Reasons I love Dad:

• The way he desperately tries to get rid of my blankey
• "Kody Tyler Newton reporting for pay sir!"
• How he talks and flirts with all of the girls that call me
• The way he reached for his belt when he was going to punish you
• The intense golf games we had (and how he never made me pay when I lost to him)
• The way he holds on tight while riding roller coasters
• How I was walking into the red bathroom one morning and he suddenly woke up and said, "Oh, sh%$@!"
  
• That night we stayed up late playing golf on the Nintendo
• When he leaves his comfort zone for me
• "Bonding"
• Daily pork chops
• The old 50's music we listened to while texturing the ceiling
• "Never in my life did I ever think I would ______" (the way he always told us he never thought he would do something right before he did it - Blue Jays baseball game, Disneyworld, Hong Kong, etc)
• Grocery shopping with him because we got pretty much whatever we wanted
• The way he doubted but still laughed at my answering machine messages
• How I could read his mind sitting next to him on a bench in the Sacred Grove
• His love for cashews (and willing to share)
• How I could always trade him my quarters and dimes for dollar bills
• Tuna and crackers
• Slow motion fighting
• How his favorite movie is "The American President"
• How he's always scared to go bowling with me because I'll beat him
• How he always went outside to smoke
• When he made KAYSI always pop the white pores on his back
• His big construction dreams (backyard, bathroom downstairs)
• The stories he would tell me of the old days (necking under the bridge in Moab)
• His principles on how boys should never hit girls
• The punishments when I did
• When he'd offer me Coke...only when I felt like I was going to throw up
• The photo where he looks more like Superman than I ever did
• "Cotton picker!"
• "16 tons, whadda ya get?"
• The times he let me take the Celica
• The fact that he's always the last one to open a present on Christmas day
• How he used to hide his Coke underneath his desk in the den
• How he always referred to the movie "Mr. Baseball" when I would slurp my noodles
• How the first time I saw him run was to catch our tee time
• His Elvis obsession
• How he's the fastest to ask for directions
• When he talked trash about his 3 point shooting skills
• His desperate attempt to teach me table manners
• How good of a driver he is (and how much he wanted me to be, too)
• His voice when he prays
• How his whole cd collection was the Titanic soundtrack
• The R rated movie we would watch once in a while
• The way he would gamble for us (with our money) and never won anything for us
• The blessing he gave me before the state track meet
• How he still wears my Rock Springs All-Star hat sometimes
• His Coke decorations in the red bathroom
• When he bought me Star Wars Episode 1 on video
• How he got up around 6:00 am to go the Palmyra temple dedication with us
• His willingness to always lend me a tie (and his bad taste in ties)
• His claim to be the only Wyoming State Champion in the family
• His attempt to switch from Coke to Sam's Choice
• Golden Corral
• His love for those black licorice candies
• How he sat on the stairs until I fell asleep (when I was transitioning to sleeping in my own bed)
• His big huge towels he used to call "his"
• How he was so nervous about getting his patriarchal blessing
• The one letter he sent to me on my mission
• The look on his face on Christmas day when he realized he was debt free
• How he was my chaperon when I got married and he was as nervous as I was
• The epic golfing duel while everyone was watching on the second day of the Newton Cup
• How he always tells me that they have Creamies in the freezer
• The way he laughed during "The Bucket List"
• How he sings "Yankee Dankee Doo" when he is holding my kids
  
• The way he teased me about getting my 52 inch TV instead of his 37 inch
  

I love you Dad