Daddy, i'll never forget our first Christmas without you. I drove from New Mexico in 19 hours to be there to cut the tree that you had picked out.It was the best tree that we had ever had. You always had such an eye for picking the perfect tree. We decorated it and turned on the lights. It hit us so hard that you weren't there to do the honors of plugging them in.

I suggested to my family that you were in heaven, with a white gown and those clothes hanger angel wings wrapped in that gold fuzzy stuff, watching over all of us. I still miss you as much as I did then.

Momma, I'll never forget when my sisters wheeled you into the living room after the tree was decorated and how your face lit up and then you said daddy's name. And how that night Tippy slept with you.(as always) I know you're all together and Tippy still sleeps behind your bed and thumps the wall with his tail when you talk to him. I miss you all so much. xoxox "shorty"