Dad, I have such sweet memories of you, but more so of your last couple years with us (tears). I can recall of the days when Jay and I would go stay with you when Diana would go spend time in Corpus with Michael or cousin Rosa. I recall you getting so excited when we'd go and stay for a week with you. I remember waking up the first morning of our stay and starting to clean your house. I can remember cooking breakfast for you and making coffee for you just like mom made it for  you. I recall seeing you working outside while i'd be cooking for you inside.. then id call you in to come eat and you would come in, wash up and sit down! to a good breakfast. I'd sit there with you and join you in eating. Then I remember loving just being there with you (tears).  Then it started... you and your stories of how you met mom, your courtship  and how life was with you and her as a young couple. Then you'd start asking me about my relationship with Jerry and how we met and i remember telling you the story of how we met and fell in love online, more than a dozen times! lol and every time you would react as if you were hearing the story for the first time (smiling tears) that always tickled my heart with joy lol seeing you react to a story I'd shared with you over and over and over again!! :') You'd always tell me you were so proud of the woman id become and of how i ended up with a hard working man as a husband. I remember how i loved hearing how much you loved Jerry and how proud you were to call him your son-in-law. He was more than a son-in-law to you he was actually a real son to you is what you'd tell me (tear) and this made my day. We sat and talked for hours and we'd cry over our memories of mom and by the time we knew it, four or five hours had passed and it went from being early in the morning to being late in the afternoon!!. Daddy you know, when we were little girls we never had much quality time together because you were always such a strict dad and a very reserved man. So quality father daughter time we never had with you. But those last couple years with you i will always cherish because we got closer together and our father-daughter relationship grew.  I got to have my quality time with you after all! (tears). and i will always cherish those times with you, our breakfasts together, our talks, its something i never had with you growing up but that i found later as a grown married woman. In other words the child in me found her daddy (tears).  Oh how I'd give anything to have one more breakfast with you, one more long talk with you! (tears). But i know its impossible now.. I am greatful that i got to spend that quality one on one time with you all those times. I wouldn't trade them for anything in this world! they added more meaning to my life now (tears). I LOVE YOU DADDY and i MISS YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!