Joshua was the cutest baby ever. Chubby with red hair. One of the happiest days of my life. His older brother Jeremy loved him to death. Wanted to hold him all the time.  Played with him and entertained him constantly.  He could make him laugh anytime.  He had the cutest laugh ever.  He was the cutest toddler with curly red hair.  He and his brother Jeremy were the lights of my life.  I pulled them in the wagon everywhere.  To the park, to the creek, to the pool.  He learned to ride a two wheel bike when he was five.  After several broken bones he was very good at it.  Climbing trees, wading in the creek, sled riding,  playing hide-n-seek, kick the can.  Doing all the things that not many kids today do.  We use to ride around in the car and sing country music together.  He especially loved Tim McGraw, I'm an Indian Outlaw.

He was scared to death to start kindergarten.  He clung to me for ten minutes until I could convince him to go in.  After I left I cried like a baby. Sending my baby off to school was so hard.

He started Little League and enjoyed it so much that he also started wrestling and playing football.  He was very good at all.  They were  the best times of my life.  Watching my sons growing up and excell in sports was amazing.

He loved camping.  We did alot of it.  Almost every weekend in the summer.  We had alot of great family times together.  Fishing was one of his passions.  We spent every weekend with his Gram and Pap and he loved four-wheeling and riding in his Paps cart.

He loved going to his Paps to play cards. He and his brother would take their friends up every Thursday night to play cards.  They had great times together.  He loved his Gram and Pap very much.  He and his brother helped Pap pick up a pool table and set it up in the basement and he got into pool.  In fact he got pretty darn good at it.

He excelled in sports in school.  In fact, he was second in the Nation in wrestling in his freshman year.  He graduated in 1999.

He started working not long after he graduated and worked continuously right up until his death.

His two sons were born in 2001.  He knew they were his sons, but because the woman was married, he could not claim them.  That was one of the hardest times of his life. 

The biggest blessing in his life was the day his daughter, Callie, was born.  She was his angel.  He loved her more than anything.  He was the best Daddy ever. He took care of her from the day she was born, not afraid to change diapers, feed her, he was there for it all.  They were always together.  Closer than any father and daughter could be.  I used to tell him not to wake her up at 11;00 when he got home from work, and I would hear them in his room together giggling and he would say "but mom I don't get to see her when I'm on this shift."  So I would let it go. She always got her own way with her Daddy.  He called her Bugaboo. 

She had always wanted a Pug puppy.  There was one born on the day he died and we got it for her.  She was so excited.  She named it Bug because that is what her Daddy called her.

He and his brither Jeremy were always inseperable.  They did everything together.  Josh was Jeremys shadow growing up and Jeremy didn't mind at all.  They were especially close right before he died, which I am so thankful for.

Life will never be the same for any of us.  My heart will ache until my death.  We love you Josh.  You will always be with us.  Till we meet again.