My thoughts are with you today as they are every day.  You are never gone and as each day passes you are even closer to me than the day before.  How do I express how much I miss you? I can't find the words except to just say you are so loved, missed and thought about every minute of every day.

Love you my son in Heaven,

Dad

Son I miss you so much and today all I think of is you. So many memories to treasure. I love you so much and so blessed to be your mom. I love you with all my heart.  

All thoughts of you today❤️ You deserve to be grieved, honored and remembered always.  You were a bright shining light and one in a million.  So many memories I am reflecting on today....stories, conversations and all the laughs shared. Oh how terribly we miss you everyday. Love you always

As the day October 8th, 2014 is here my thoughts are with you son and these words do not come close to the love we have for you and how much we truly miss you.

Of all the special gifts in life, however great or small, to have you as our son was the greatest gift of all.  We miss and love you son and wish that you were here.  A silent thought, a secret tear keeps your memory in our hearts forever.

Love you,

Dad

Today I got to thinking about my Mom's birthday on Friday, September 14th.  Of course I thought about her on the 14th but today I thought about how it must be in Heaven with all of your relatives especially your Grandma and Grandpa Gavett and Grandpa and Grandma Keyes.  There are other relatives there too but just to be with your Grandparents in Heaven must be just awesome.  Someday we will all be there with you and everyone that has gone before but until that day comes we will all that are still on this earth will think of you every day and miss you until the day comes.

Love,

Dad 

It was just one week ago today that your daughter and my granddaughter Lauren had her 23rd birthday.  I can't even begin to image what kind of birthday party you would have put on for your daughter.  Like all of the birthday's you have celebrated in the past it would have been a great party.  

Love and miss you !

Dad

Today was like any other day to most everyone else in the world.  There is one very special person that like all of your family thinks of you 24/7.  That person I am proud to say is your brother and my son Mark.  Today Mark just needed to talk with you so like so many days he came to your place and brought beautiful flowers to place on your place.  The love that Mark has for his brother is beyond words that I can't even begin to think of. 

I just wanted to say how proud I am of Mark and the love he has for you and his family.

God Bless,

Dad 

Happy 4th of July !!!

Tomorrow is Emilee's birthday and we all know that her Uncle Greg would be wishing her a very happy birthday.  We will all be thinking of our Greg on this day and every day and how much fun he would be having today.  There would be a BBQ going at his home in Mount Norway with all the very best food prepared by him.

God Bless Us All,

Dad

Today, June 17th, is a day that brings back many happy memories of this day when we Dad's wished Happy Father's Day to our son's and son in laws.  Today in my heart and mind I wished you my son a Happy Father's day.  Mark who loves you unconditionally, as always placed flowers on your place at Evergreen and your daughters text me a Happy Father's Day as Grandpa.  I know you can see your daughters from your place in Heaven but you would be so proud of the young ladies they have become seeing them here on this earth.  

God Bless you my son,

Dad

This Memorial Day is like all others since October 8th, 2014.  In my life everyday is Memorial Day for you my son.  I think of you this day with happy memories and the great times we spent together and know that someday I will spend eternity with you.

Love and miss you,

Dad

As Mother's Day approaches this May 13th I think back to that first Mother's Day in 1959.  You were born just one day before Mother's Day in 1959, that Mother's Day was May 10th 1959.  As the years past there were many more Mother's Day's for your Mom to celebrate with you and your brother and sisters.  Those were the happiest of times and I know that on this Mother's Day you to are in a Happy place with our Lord.

Love,
Dad

My eyes opened this morning with you on my heart.  You are loved and missed beyond measure. Not a day passing without you with me.  I will fill my day with the treasured memories I hold dear to me. Love you forever❤️

The story title is the day that was the happiest of my life, the day our little boy was born.  You were a beautiful boy from the very start of your life and all those memories of you growinng up from that day forward is what I love and remember and what makes my life today.  I know that someday we will be together again and that I will continue gto have happy memories until that day is here for me.  I love you beyond words and will celebrate today with those wonderful memories of all the years you were in my life.

Dad
XO

I miss you so much and wish we could be together celebrating today. I love you and wish that it got easier with time but it doesn't.  I wish you were here everyday and that I could hug you and hear your laugh.  Until we meet again I hold every memory and moment we shared close to my heart.  I love you son and send you big hugs in heaven today.  You are so loved!  oxox Mom

Feels like just yesterday you were here.  I know you'll be celebrating your birthday tomorrow in heaven but how I wish you were still with us!!  Maybe that makes me selfish because you are at peace and not suffering....it's just that I miss you so much.  It still hurts so much.  I hope you know how much you are loved and missed each day. I love you brother and carry you with me everyday. 

My day has been filled with so many happy thoughts of you my son.  Time passes so quickly and it has already been nearly 4 years since your passing but it is like yesterday.  Someday we will be together again.

Love,
Dad

So many thoughts of you today. I miss you so very very very much brother and love you with all my heart!  You’ll never be forgotten oxox

Happy Easter !!

I remember Easter's past and when you and Mark were just little boys running around in your pajama's in the back yard on Knott street.  This was just one of your earliest Easter's.  As each year passes since October 8th, 2014 I remember more and more those happy days.  

I know that on this Easter Morning you are with our Lord in Heaven and I to, will someday be there with you and our Lord.

Dad

Missing you today & everyday.  So many new experiences that I wish I were sharing with you! I know in my heart you’re here with me but I just wish I could hug you and see your face. I’d give anything for another day with you.  I love you always! 

My thoughts are once again with you son on this day. 

To quote Billy Graham, "are you afraid to die? No, I look forward to it with great anticipation and that someday I will look into the face of God". 

I feel the very same way and I know that you my son, have looked into the face of God many, many times.

Love you,
Dad

Happy New Year Bro, Wow 2018.. It's just not same without  you.  I could sure use one of are talks right now.  I have a lot going on in my life right now and it would help so much to have you here.  I miss you with all my heart.  Right now my heart is broken and could use your strong and to the point advise.  You always had a way of saying the right thing.  No beating around the bush with your words.  You are a wonderful brother and i sure miss you.  I love you taday and always Bro.

Merry Christmas to everyone and I know our Greg is in heaven with Jesus and that we are blessed to know that someday we to shall be in heaven with our Greg and Jesus.  Our love for our Greg is unending and grows stronger each passing day.

Love,
Dad

I was thinking about Christmas's past and all the presents that we gave each other over the years and especially when you and your brother and sisters were yuong.  The fun of your Mom and I watching all the excitement of you all opening your presents and the beautiful smiles on your faces.  The memories that you gave all of your family are the greatest presents we could ever have and we are blessed to have them.  They are with us long after the material things are gone and every day of our lives.

God Bless !!
Dad

Everything about this time of year reminds me of you. It's so hard to believe its been so long since I've seen your face. I close my eyes and see you so clearly, still hear your laughter and your voice. Sending hugs up to heaven tonight and always sweet brother. I miss you so very much.

I don't know what's wrong with me but this will be the 4th year without our Greg.  When I wrote the other story I said 3 years but for some reason just wasn't thinking.  Sometimes as Greg would understand, our minds can get filled with thoughts of saddness and dispair.

Our lives will never be the same but Greg would want us all to have a Merry and Happy Christmas just as he is with our Jesus in heaven.

God Bless everyone !!

Dad

As Christmas approaches again this year it is another Christmas without you and although this will be the 3rd Christmas without you, you are here as never before in out hearts, minds and souls.  You are in out thoughts every waking day and always will be until the day we are  once again together in heaven with you for eternity. 

Lover you son,
Dad 

All our thoughts and memories are of you on this Thanksgiving day.  You are missed more each day annd especially on days like this.  Our memories are of the times when you were just a child with your borther and sisters and your Mom and me.  Those were special and wonderful times.  The times when you were a young man and the days when you started your own family and had your Thanksgiving dinners.

God love and bless you on this special day and you are in our hearts, minds and memories.

Love you,
Dad

Just one of those many days when I am sitting around and my thoughts are all of you.  As I look out the window at the sunny sky and the gentle wind blowing through the trees I am reminded of the times we sat on your deck and watched the same sunny ski and gentle wind.  I wonder where in that beautiful sky is heaven and where you are there also.  I wait for the day that I will have the answer to that question and to be able to give you a big hug and a kiss on your cheek. 

Love  you,
Dad

Greg,

Not a day goes by I dont wish you were with me. I guess that is selfish because I know you are in heaven. I wonder what you are doing in heaven. I went back to Minot and how I enjoyed hearing the stories about you that Brian and Terry shared. It makes me feel so happy and so close to you. I wish I could talk to you about them and give you a big hug. How I miss you.

I love you
Mom

We all love and miss you everyday of our lives until we all are together with you again in eternity forever.

Our beloved son, brother, uncle and friend.

Dad

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”

Brother ~ I miss you everyday.  Three years and still as much as day one. I love you.

The weather has been cold and rainy and I know that when it was like this you made sure your horses were either in the barn or in the shelter you and me built in the pasture.  I miss thse days when I visited your home on Mt. Norway and looking out over the valley to the far mountains while we sat on your deck and had happy thoughts and conversation.  Someday we will sit again and have happy thoughts and conversation for all eternity.

Miss and love you more than every.

Dad

I BET YOU HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT DURING THE ECLIPSE JUST AS YOU HAVE NOW AND FOR ETERNITY.

LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH.

DAD

Miss you and love you every day.  

Lauren's birthday is the 20th and it's hard to believe your daughter will be 22 years  old.

Dad

Greg knew how much I loved the game of baseball and softball.  He came to some of my softball games in Idaho and he loved to rib me about my play but all in good fun for his old Dad.

Like most things in life there is a time when we leave things behind and after 80 years I will be leaving the game of softball behind and remember the memories and good times I had.  The times my children came to watch me play.  When my Cindy and Michelle and my grandkids came to Bend to see their Dad and Grandpa play in a tournament.  The time Mark came to my game in Boise.

Like I said, there are things in life we leave behind and the day will come when I leave this world behnd and be with my son Greg and the two of us will wait until others in our family leave their lives behind.  This is not meant to be a sad story nor a story about leaving those we love but just a reminder that we all will leave things and life behind at some point.  

GREG LEFT BEHIND HUNDREDS OF HAPPY, FUN AND LOVING TIMES THAT WE ALL SHARE IN OUR OWN MINDS AND AT TIMES WITH OTHERS IN OUR FAMILY.

God love you Greg,

Dad

We just had a Father's Day on June 18th.  Whenever I get cards from all my children I display them on the dining room table.  This year was no different since I received Father"s Day cards from Michelle, Cindy and Mark.  I put them all on the table and also beside them was the last Father's Day card I received from my heavenly son.  Over the years I have kept every card and letter that my children sent me.  I am so very happy that I have many of the cards my Greg gave me over the years.  His Father's Day card brought great joy to my heart as did those beautiful cards I received from Michelle, Cindy and Mark.

God Bless them all.

Love,Dad

Bro,  I miss you so much very day.  I miss being able to call you when I'm having problems in life and getting your great advice and right now I sure could use it bro. I have a lot going on in my life and don't know who to talk to.  Bro I sure miss you with all my heart. 

Love you Bro!!!  

I remember the day you were born and how happy I was. You were so tiny and so cute. I was constantly kissing your little face and held you all the time. These are the days I hold close to my heart and cherish so much.  You brought so much joy to my life!

I love you so much and miss you everyday.

Mom

In Loving Memory On Your Heavenly Birthday.

This day will be a celebration of the time you were here.
You will always be rememebered with great love and many tears.
But to only feel pain and sorrow would not be fair to you.
Your life meant so much more to me, more than mere words could say.
I wonder if you knew all the ways you've touched my world and my heart
and everyone who knew you since the day God called you home.

There will always be a big void in my life
And a hole in my heart that will never heal.
As this day is upon me oh how my heart still hurts.
But even as I mourn your passing, I will always celebrate your birth.
Happy Birthday In Heaven My Loving Son.

Love You,
Dad 

Although Easter is past I know exactly what your Mom has written and how much she and all of us miss you every day of every week of every year.

I remember a video I took years ago when we lived on Knott street.  You and Mark were out running around the backyard early in the morning with your pajamas on and carrying your Easter baskets looking for Easter eggs.  I don't believe that your eyes were hardly open yet from your nights sleep but you two found the eggs your Mom and me hid.  These are the things we remember and cherish every day of our lives.

Love,
Dad 

Thinking you you this morning son as I do everyday all throughout the day. I wish so much that you were here even though I know you are happy in heaven. I love you so much and miss you so much. Life is so different without you and I wish so much I could hold you one more time. You gave me so much joy and I think back today to when you were just a little boy gathering your Easter eggs and smiling so big for all of us.  I cherish those days and memories.  

I love you.
Mom

All thoughts of you this morning brother.  Wishing you were here to spend Easter with us.  As always, it is never the same without you when we gather. I love you and miss you every single day!

A cold and rainy Saturday on April 8th.  This kind of weather reminds me of how you loved to curl up on your favorite spot on the couch with a blanket and watch some of your favorite TV shows.  I love to do the same thing and have been doing that today.  I treasure so many of the experiences that you and I had and they always bring a warm and happy smile to my face.  I miss you every day but the memories you gave me make each day a little easier.

Love,
Dad 

This is the title of a song sung by an Irishman named Daniel O'Donnell.  I have changed a couple words.

At least I got to have you for 55 years,
Now your gone, I don't know what I'll do
There's a Blue Moon Over My World without you.

Times we'd be together and sit and talk and laugh awhile,
Things seemed much brighter with your smile
To think of all the things you went through
There's a Blue Moon Over My World without you.

Stars shine much brighter in the heavens
Now your there,
Each time I think about you I say a silent prayer,
I lost my son so warm and true
There's a Blue Moon Over My World without you.

To each and everyone comes judgement day
And all you take is what you gave away,
You gave so much to everyone that's true
There's a Blue Moon Over My World without you.

Love,
Dad

 

Love you more everyday, miss you more everyday.  That may not sound possible but it is true.

Dad

  

I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away

I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away

I wrote your name in my heart,
and forever it will stay until I am with you again

Dad
 

Michelle wrote that she watched Sebastian Maniscalco and thought of you and how much you both laughed and enjoyed a good laugh.  Greg, you turned me on to Sebastian and I have bought some of his DVD's and watch them often and imagine that you are watching them with me  and I can almost hear your laughter. You always brought so much love, happiness and joy into all our lives and that love, happiness and joy lives on today in our hearts and minds.

We will keep laughing and remembering the good times for as long as we are here.

Love you,
Dad 

I watched Sebastian Maniscalco tonight and thought of you the whole time. Such great memories of watching him with you and laughing so much.  You always appreciated good humor and were always excited to share when you came across a good stand up comedian or funny movie.  I miss that so much! Not a day passes that I do not think of you and wish you were here. 

I write no poem, I do not have the words to express how much I love you and miss you.  I can only say that my heart aches 24/7 for you and I wait for the day I am with you in paradise my beloved precious son.

Dad 

Not a day passes when I don't think of you, miss you and wish with all my heart you were here.  So many things I wish I could talk to you about. So many things I wish I could hear your thoughts and opinions on. 

So thankful we were siblings and that you were with me for 49 years, although, not nearly long enough. I wish I could have grown old with you. Oh the fun you would have been! I grieve for the many things we will never get to share. You are in my heart forever big brother.