Dear Mommy and Daddy,

I love you both dearly. It is really hard to put in words how much I love you all, but I am going to try.

I appreciate every single thing you guys do for me. I know sometimes I do not say "thank you", nor I do not express it much, but I do. I truly would not be where I am today without you guys. You both have pushed me and shown me that I can do whatever I put my mind to. You have proven to me that I can succeed in life and become something of it. I can not thank you enough for giving me endless of support and sticking by me when times get really rough.

You both have been with me through it all. From when I was a baby and needed my dirty diapers changed (and I can imagine it was not easy), when I took my first steps or said my first word, played with my Barbies with me, picked out my first softball glove, picked out my first homecoming dress, picked out my first car, helped me get ready for prom, watched me walk across the stage and graduate, and move into my first dorm room. I can not imagine having any other parents other than you both.

I am so lucky and so blessed to have both my mom and dad there for me from the day I was born to the rest of our lives. For some kids, they can not say that. They do not have both their parents in their life, or their mom and dad are divorced. But I am lucky enough to have both of you with me.

As I just ended my first year of college, I must say living away from you guys is the hardest thing I have ever done. It was so weird not coming home every day to you both asking me how my day went or watching our favorite shows together. You never really know how much you take the little things like that for granted.

As I am growing up and not at the house much anymore, or I am out with my friends a lot more, I still love you both more than anything. No one could ever replace the love I have for you two. You both will always be my number one. At the end of the day, you two are the ones I want to talk to and see because I know I will never have a more true or more real bond with anyone else.

I like to think of my future from time to time and see what I want in a marriage or see how I want my kids to grow up. I always think of how perfect you both raised Austin and me, and I do not ever think I can come close to compare raising my kids like you raised us. But, I know I will try everything in my ability to be like you guys one day.

I love you, Mommy and Daddy! I will always be your little girl!

"She's her daddy's girl, her Momma's world".