Happy 64th Birthday, Dad!

Saying we miss you doesn't seem to encompass how we feel.

The gaping hole gets bigger with each passing year.

We still laugh and laugh when we are all together but now the laughters leaves

a bit of a hollow feeling when it is gone.

The hollow feeling is the spot that used to be filled by your bellowing laugh!

As more and more members of our family are added we will keep your memory alive, we will talk about you and laugh about you, we will tell our kids stories of their Papa. We will be sure that they understand all that they have missed by not having you as their Papa for as long as they should have had you.

We will hold each other up and remind each other that though we lost much,

we are blessed to have had so much to lose.

While at your gravesite today this is how your grandkids celebrated you.

Running around, giggling and climbing trees.

I think you'd like it that way.

We love you Dad.