Win a Blurb Photobook for Father's Day with Dropgifts
When it comes to buying presents for NotBlondeHusband I almost always struggle. He's crazy tough to buy for so with Father's Day just around the corner I'm starting to consider what I might get him. If you're like me and not sure what to get the Dad in your life I've got a competition to win a custom Blurb Photobook in time for Father's Day from the lovely people at DropGifts!
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One of my earliest and most enduring childhood memories is going shopping with my Dad. We'd go every Friday night to the supermarket. Such a simple thing, but it was our night together. I used to ride on the shopping trolley and it was real daddy/daughter time.
I always remember one such night, we came home as a storm was approaching and we stood outside together, eating an ice cream and watching the lightning.
My favorite memory of my Dad is the day I graduated. He looked so proud, it always puts a smile on my face thinking about it. I don't think he thought he'd ever get to see me walk across that stage and I've now done it 3 times.
My childhood memory is falling in a church pond when up town with my mum and having to walk home ringing wet with everybody looking at me and my mum and god only knows what they were thinking!
My dad always used to embarrass me like the only time he ever took me to high school, instead of dropping me off at the gate, he drove straight into the school and into the playground before making me get out. Not funny at the time but a little funny now. x
My fave memory was of a Sunday lunch. My parents, sister and I were all round the table, sister had her legs folded under her and was sitting on them when the chair collapsed. She banged her chin on the plate so her face was covered in gravy and she couldn't get up as her legs were stuck under her in the wooden frame of the chair. She was wailing at the top of her lungs. I looked over at my Dad with a slight smirk whilst mom helped her up. That smirk developed into full on belly laughter and tears. The more we laughed the louder my sister cried-oh we did get told off!!
My favourite memory of my dad is when he used to do Kermit the frog or Mick Jagger impressions to cheer me up if i was ill or miserable.Still makes me laugh now.
My favourite memory is when he had to deliver our daughter because the midwife had left the room and she decided to come quicker than they thought :) x
Shortly after I started dating my now husband John, we all (John, my parents and myself) went to Legoland for the day. Dad forged ahead, and as 'us three' rounded a corner, there was a Lego 'one man band' figure that was playing a banjo, and standing next to it, my Dad who quick as a flash started playing his walking stick like a banjo! The most important thing about that incident, for me, was the fact it showed Dad felt very comfortable being his usual silly, wonderful self in front of John. It also showed me that John wasn't going to 'freak out' if any of us (myself included) did anything silly in public, just for laughs, which we do have a tendency to do!
my kids were trying out their skateboard for 1st time but wasnt sure what to do so my bf showed them after a couple of go's he decided to try showing off with a stunk of flipping to only trip over board it flipping up and hitting him on his arse and him landed in a heap winded and with a wounded pride lol
My Fave memory of my Dad is in London taking me to Wimbledon and eating strawberries :) It was a real father daughter day - we left my brother at home!
this might actually sound quite strange but as i got into my teenage years my dad the pranker started doing really silly things like filling my bag when i wasnt looking before i went out at new year with cherrys and i went away with potatoes in my suit case that he pu there all the way to blackpool for a girls weekend i wondered why it was so heavy anyway he did this quite a few times on different occasions my friends wont let me forget!!!!
It's funny now, but at the time my Dad was very upset! When I was little my Dad worked shifts, he had just finished a night shift and Mum was at work. Dad was looking after my Sister and I (age 2 & 5) and I begged him to take the stabiliser off my bike. Off I went onto the front drive with my sister and promptly ran over her, breaking her leg. Dad had to take both of us to the hospital on his own. Mum still brings up the story to this day about the day she left Dad in charge! x
A few years ago my dad pulled out a Fathers day card that I made for him when I was about 7 years old. It said "I love you because you have big muscles".
The story I always get told about my dad is when I was very small, I was sitting on his shoulders as we were walking through the woods. Unfortunately I apparently got caught a little short and pooed all down his neck!!! :-)
I always remember we went to the fair and me and my brother raced to the stop of lots of stairs to go on a slide. When we got to the top the slide was a tube and I was scared and cried my brother left me and went down the slide and must of told me parents at the bottom then dad came up to get me. He sat me down on his knee and we went down the slide together.
i always remember my dad used to be so embarressing in the car when i was with my friends we never go to listen to music cos he hated it so we had the archers on
When I was a little girl my Dad used to grow peas. Mum used to send us up the garden with a saucepan but my Dad and I would eat most of them raw and only bring a few back for dinner!
I now have a 3 and a half year old girl and the other day I stood at the kitchen window watching history repeat itself....I don't know why but that's brought a tear to my eye! Soppy so and so...lol x
We used to go on bike rides for miles on the weekends when we were kids, its only years later i realised my it was always on a sunday when he came back from the pub - i dont know how were still alive haha
When the ice cream van came round on a sunday luchtime when we were small,my dad used to always take a big bowl out and have the bowl filled with whirly ice cream.We all used to have some with our sunday lunch pudding :)
My dad died when i was 17 so i have not got as many memories as i would like,but my fondest memory was him taking me to my first day at work and seeing his proud smile on his face
My best memory is from last year. I found out that I had a different dad from my sisters, I was so shocked as I am 30 years old. I managed to find him on Facebook and we did a Paternity test which came back that he is my dad. I now have a dad and its amazing, there was an instant bond between us :) xx
my dad is a huge man, when we were on holiday in Majorca he sat down in a deck chair and fell right through the frame we were all laughing so much that it took us half an hour to help him up.
i remember when I was younger and my dad was teaching my sister how to ride a bike. They were in the middle of the road. A car came and he ran to the pavement and then realised he had left my sister there. I have never seen him move so fast.
I love the first time my husband was absentmindedly holding our son, and didn't see the impending massive spit up till it was too late! Bless him, he watched our son's facial expressions like a HAWK after that! @weenwee
One of the best times I've had with my Dad was when we went to the West Bromwich Albion play off final 5 years against Derby at Wembley. It was a fabulous day (despite the final score) just the two of us along with another 10,000 Albion fans singing and wearing our club shirts with pride!
My father has a sweet tooth and would often make me some delicious creamy vanilla fudge when i was a child.These days i return the favour and try to make him some different types of fudge for Birthday and Xmas.
When I was a about 5 I was performing what I believed to be a magic trick. I had a wellington boot and I was going to magic some money out of it. I put on a good show but towards the end I started to panic as I realised the magic probably wasn't going to work . It hadn't occurred to me before. I was just hoping to blag it. Anyway, when I abracadabra'd and turned the well upside down, 50p fell out and my dad said wow, that really was magic. I was amazed but acted cool and said something like well of course, I told you I could do magic..From that day on, I believed I had magic powers. Only at a much older age did I face the reality that my dad must have put the money in the boot when I was wasn't looking. I thought I was pretty clever at the time though ;)
I have so many but there was one in particular that stands out. We went to Spain when I was about 4 and my sister was 2 and we went to a drive through safari park. As we were driving through we came to the elephants and we were all excited because Mum and Dad had bought us some peanuts to feed them with. Anyway Dad opened the window to feed this elephant and my sister and I both gave him some peanuts which he loved, so much in fact that he tried to get more by putting his trunk through the window. Dad told my sister to give the elephant more to which she replied that he'd had some and that would be greedy. Poor Dad got covered in green slime where the elephant wrapped his trunk round his neck and we were lucky it didn't turn the car over LOL My sister was adament though that it wouldn't get more!!!!
I remember going blackberry picking with my Dad. He told me to be careful as we were near a main road, started climbing over the gate and fell straight into a patch of stinging nettles! He didn't find it amusing but my Mum and I sure did! xo
We went on a family holiday to Zante, we found a great little bar,my dads favourite drink at the time was a rusty nail, the bar tender didn't know how to make one so my dad told him, as the night went on the drinks got stronger and stronger and my dad ended up hammered! too me and my mam about an hour to get him back to the hotel which was only around the corner!
A memory from when I was younger with my Dad was him coming on a highwire walk with us. He's really scared of heights but came with us to allow us to do it - thank you dad!
One of my earliest and most enduring childhood memories is going shopping with my Dad. We'd go every Friday night to the supermarket. Such a simple thing, but it was our night together. I used to ride on the shopping trolley and it was real daddy/daughter time.
ReplyDeleteI always remember one such night, we came home as a storm was approaching and we stood outside together, eating an ice cream and watching the lightning.
Innocent days :)
Aww what a lovely memory!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory of my Dad is the day I graduated. He looked so proud, it always puts a smile on my face thinking about it. I don't think he thought he'd ever get to see me walk across that stage and I've now done it 3 times.
ReplyDeleteMy childhood memory is falling in a church pond when up town with my mum and having to walk home ringing wet with everybody looking at me and my mum and god only knows what they were thinking!
ReplyDeletei have so many too - my favourite memory of my dad is when he took us to florida x
ReplyDeleteMe on my dad's shoulders and him pretending he's going to bump onto things.
ReplyDeleteSummer holiday bike trips to the countryside with my dad.
ReplyDeleteMy dad always used to embarrass me like the only time he ever took me to high school, instead of dropping me off at the gate, he drove straight into the school and into the playground before making me get out. Not funny at the time but a little funny now. x
ReplyDeleteI remember my dad always burning sausages on the barbecue!
ReplyDeleteMy fave memory was of a Sunday lunch. My parents, sister and I were all round the table, sister had her legs folded under her and was sitting on them when the chair collapsed. She banged her chin on the plate so her face was covered in gravy and she couldn't get up as her legs were stuck under her in the wooden frame of the chair. She was wailing at the top of her lungs. I looked over at my Dad with a slight smirk whilst mom helped her up. That smirk developed into full on belly laughter and tears. The more we laughed the louder my sister cried-oh we did get told off!!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite memory of my dad is when he used to do Kermit the frog or Mick Jagger impressions to cheer me up if i was ill or miserable.Still makes me laugh now.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite memory is when he had to deliver our daughter because the midwife had left the room and she decided to come quicker than they thought :) x
ReplyDeleteFavourite memory of my dad: his keys jingling and him whistling as he got out of the car when he got home being at work.
ReplyDeleteShortly after I started dating my now husband John, we all (John, my parents and myself) went to Legoland for the day. Dad forged ahead, and as 'us three' rounded a corner, there was a Lego 'one man band' figure that was playing a banjo, and standing next to it, my Dad who quick as a flash started playing his walking stick like a banjo!
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing about that incident, for me, was the fact it showed Dad felt very comfortable being his usual silly, wonderful self in front of John. It also showed me that John wasn't going to 'freak out' if any of us (myself included) did anything silly in public, just for laughs, which we do have a tendency to do!
Sitting on my Dad's shoulders
ReplyDeletemy kids were trying out their skateboard for 1st time but wasnt sure what to do so my bf showed them after a couple of go's he decided to try showing off with a stunk of flipping to only trip over board it flipping up and hitting him on his arse and him landed in a heap winded and with a wounded pride lol
ReplyDeleteMy Fave memory of my Dad is in London taking me to Wimbledon and eating strawberries :) It was a real father daughter day - we left my brother at home!
ReplyDeleteYay you went with the blazer!! Looks amazing :)
ReplyDeletethis might actually sound quite strange but as i got into my teenage years my dad the pranker started doing really silly things like filling my bag when i wasnt looking before i went out at new year with cherrys and i went away with potatoes in my suit case that he pu there all the way to blackpool for a girls weekend i wondered why it was so heavy anyway he did this quite a few times on different occasions my friends wont let me forget!!!!
ReplyDeletemy favourite moment was bringing my daughter home on my dads birthday. they are so close now
ReplyDeleteMy favourite memory of my dad is long summer walks on a Sunday morning, followed by a hearty pub lunch at the end of them!
ReplyDeletei can remember my dad running for a taxi once and falling over in the snow! it did make me laugh!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny now, but at the time my Dad was very upset! When I was little my Dad worked shifts, he had just finished a night shift and Mum was at work. Dad was looking after my Sister and I (age 2 & 5) and I begged him to take the stabiliser off my bike. Off I went onto the front drive with my sister and promptly ran over her, breaking her leg. Dad had to take both of us to the hospital on his own. Mum still brings up the story to this day about the day she left Dad in charge! x
ReplyDeleteA few years ago my dad pulled out a Fathers day card that I made for him when I was about 7 years old. It said "I love you because you have big muscles".
ReplyDeleteMy favourite memory of my dad is giving me piggy back rides when I got tired
ReplyDeleteThe story I always get told about my dad is when I was very small, I was sitting on his shoulders as we were walking through the woods. Unfortunately I apparently got caught a little short and pooed all down his neck!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite memory is my Dad taking me to airshows when I was small and watching the planes fly overhead.
ReplyDeleteI always remember we went to the fair and me and my brother raced to the stop of lots of stairs to go on a slide. When we got to the top the slide was a tube and I was scared and cried my brother left me and went down the slide and must of told me parents at the bottom then dad came up to get me. He sat me down on his knee and we went down the slide together.
ReplyDeleteI love just ringing my Dad for a chat and knowing he is always there fore me :)
ReplyDeletei always remember my dad used to be so embarressing in the car when i was with my friends we never go to listen to music cos he hated it so we had the archers on
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little girl my Dad used to grow peas. Mum used to send us up the garden with a saucepan but my Dad and I would eat most of them raw and only bring a few back for dinner!
ReplyDeleteI now have a 3 and a half year old girl and the other day I stood at the kitchen window watching history repeat itself....I don't know why but that's brought a tear to my eye! Soppy so and so...lol x
We used to go on bike rides for miles on the weekends when we were kids, its only years later i realised my it was always on a sunday when he came back from the pub - i dont know how were still alive haha
ReplyDeletemy dad always made people laugh and smile he always joked some people never saw the funny side so he got into trouble alot aswell x
ReplyDeleteWhen the ice cream van came round on a sunday luchtime when we were small,my dad used to always take a big bowl out and have the bowl filled with whirly ice cream.We all used to have some with our sunday lunch pudding :)
ReplyDeleteWatching Sunday League football while freezing on the touchlines as a kid
ReplyDeletewatching my boyfriend hold our son for the first time, seeing the special moment he became a dad for the first time
ReplyDeleteDad was just dad - took us to Valentines Park every weekend and we thought it was great
ReplyDeleteMy Dad loved dogs and he rode his motorcycle with our dog sitting on the handlebars! He was quite a big dog too.
ReplyDeletedada use to put me on the top of the door when i was a baby, was funny
ReplyDeleteMy dad died when i was 17 so i have not got as many memories as i would like,but my fondest memory was him taking me to my first day at work and seeing his proud smile on his face
ReplyDeleteIt has to be my dad's awkwardly funny but oh so touching speech at my wedding. Tears a plenty!
ReplyDeleteMy best memory is from last year. I found out that I had a different dad from my sisters, I was so shocked as I am 30 years old. I managed to find him on Facebook and we did a Paternity test which came back that he is my dad. I now have a dad and its amazing, there was an instant bond between us :) xx
ReplyDeletemy dad is a huge man, when we were on holiday in Majorca he sat down in a deck chair and fell right through the frame we were all laughing so much that it took us half an hour to help him up.
ReplyDeletei remember when I was younger and my dad was teaching my sister how to ride a bike. They were in the middle of the road. A car came and he ran to the pavement and then realised he had left my sister there. I have never seen him move so fast.
ReplyDeleteMy father trying to fly down the stairs 'Buzz Lightyear style', only for my 6 year old brother to try and catch him. No, it did not end well.
ReplyDeleteI love the first time my husband was absentmindedly holding our son, and didn't see the impending massive spit up till it was too late! Bless him, he watched our son's facial expressions like a HAWK after that! @weenwee
ReplyDeleteFYI, the rafflecopter form seems to be down.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best times I've had with my Dad was when we went to the West Bromwich Albion play off final 5 years against Derby at Wembley. It was a fabulous day (despite the final score) just the two of us along with another 10,000 Albion fans singing and wearing our club shirts with pride!
ReplyDeleteMy fave memory of my son's Dad is when I watched him cradle his boy for the first time! The twinkle in his eyes has never left since :)
ReplyDeleteA favourite memory of my dad is when he got married to his current partner, I don't think I've ever seen him so happy :)
ReplyDeleteI am impressed by this answer, really cool and informative to me.
ReplyDeleteMy father has a sweet tooth and would often make me some delicious creamy vanilla fudge when i was a child.These days i return the favour and try to make him some different types of fudge for Birthday and Xmas.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a about 5 I was performing what I believed to be a magic trick. I had a wellington boot and I was going to magic some money out of it. I put on a good show but towards the end I started to panic as I realised the magic probably wasn't going to work . It hadn't occurred to me before. I was just hoping to blag it. Anyway, when I abracadabra'd and turned the well upside down, 50p fell out and my dad said wow, that really was magic. I was amazed but acted cool and said something like well of course, I told you I could do magic..From that day on, I believed I had magic powers. Only at a much older age did I face the reality that my dad must have put the money in the boot when I was wasn't looking. I thought I was pretty clever at the time though ;)
ReplyDeleteme and my dad are so alike if we have a tiff one of us will come up to the other five minutes later and say do you want to be friends lol x
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story! I'm dying to take Blondie Boy to a Safari Park :)
ReplyDeleteI have so many but there was one in particular that stands out. We went to Spain when I was about 4 and my sister was 2 and we went to a drive through safari park. As we were driving through we came to the elephants and we were all excited because Mum and Dad had bought us some peanuts to feed them with. Anyway Dad opened the window to feed this elephant and my sister and I both gave him some peanuts which he loved, so much in fact that he tried to get more by putting his trunk through the window. Dad told my sister to give the elephant more to which she replied that he'd had some and that would be greedy. Poor Dad got covered in green slime where the elephant wrapped his trunk round his neck and we were lucky it didn't turn the car over LOL My sister was adament though that it wouldn't get more!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh you have to love irony :)
ReplyDeleteI remember going blackberry picking with my Dad. He told me to be careful as we were near a main road, started climbing over the gate and fell straight into a patch of stinging nettles! He didn't find it amusing but my Mum and I sure did! xo
ReplyDeleteWe went on a family holiday to Zante, we found a great little bar,my dads favourite drink at the time was a rusty nail, the bar tender didn't know how to make one so my dad told him, as the night went on the drinks got stronger and stronger and my dad ended up hammered! too me and my mam about an hour to get him back to the hotel which was only around the corner!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! That is an awesome memory!
ReplyDeleteA memory from when I was younger with my Dad was him coming on a highwire walk with us. He's really scared of heights but came with us to allow us to do it - thank you dad!
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