My Beloved loved to have parties with the kids on New Years' instead of going out with friends to dance parties she would rather spend as much time with all the kids including our nieces and nephews at my mother's house having fun and serving grape juice for a toast at Midnight ringing in the New Year and popping firecrackers of poppers that we got for all the kids and throwing streamers and popping balloons that we spent blowing up earlier in the day. I miss those days very much. I just hope the kids remember and appreciate everything she did for them so they wouldn't feel left out on New Years and other holidays that she always had a plan for having fun with the kids.

My Beloved wife loved Christmas time because she spent time with her mother, sister and niece and also with my family which she enjoyed because she always made sure that all the kids got more than one present under the tree because sometimes my sister could not afford to get them everything they wanted and she made sure everyone got something. She always read their Santa Letters and tried to get as much as we could get for all of them. It didn't matter if I didn't get much I tried to get her something she liked or wanted because she deserved everything I could give her. I still think about her and this will be our 3rd Christmas without her.

My wife was our biggest fan always cheering us on even if we were loosing and did the same for our kids and our nieces and nephew at every event including graduations. There was even one a game where a bench clearing fight happened and she was ready to jump in but I stopped her and she was cheering me on as we fought the other team. They started it and we finished it. She cheered us on and encouraged us no matter what and even when I became a lineman and went to the Lineman's Rodeo in Kansas she was there to encourage the teams we had a great time and I miss her. Today was a bad day but I was listening to some random radio station and heard a lot of the songs she loved and would sing in the car as we traveled to different adventures it cheered me up but brought tears to my eyes thinking about the good times.