Super Bowl Sunday.

The year 2009 has been busy with many life changing events for me. We all know we will have them but for some reason I had several at once. When I think of memories of 2009 there are a few that stand out in my mind. The first was the day at Church we celebrated Super Bowl Sunday. The Church was bursting at the seams with excitement for god and what he was doing in the church and in peoples lives. The service was beautiful, and there seemed to be so much energy that day. Games, chili cookoff, you name it. I remember crying as I sat beside my mom and Dad. Periodically looking over to them. Daddy was weak that morning but as he sat there he looked happy, content, and amazed at what was going on around him that day.


I knew he was getting weaker and on some Sunday's he wasnt able to make it. As I sat there i kept wondering how much more time I would have with him. Up until his illness I never had a Church realationship with my daddy. Growing up we attended Church here and there on special occasions without him, and not that often. The only memory I can remember being in a Church with him was at my wedding, and Funerals.


Daddy and Mom soon started attending the Church after i did. They really enjoyed coming and listening to Pastor Ray, listening to the word, and enjoying the music. Each Sunday I prayed that he would walk forward to be saved. He never did, and most Sunday's he would leave just as they did alter call. This Sunday was different. As the service was coming to an end, I felt the great need to take my daddy's hand and ask him if he wanted to go up front. Shaking his head yes my eyes filled with tears as I walked up with him. I remember a flood of past memories filled my mind as we were walking.



Daddy accepted God into his life that day, and as for me I was happy to be with him when he did, and now I had a sense of peace knowing he would forever be in God's arms and comforted.


At the end of the service the Church had giveaways, and were going to draw three names to participate. I couldnt believe it when they drew Dad's, then MINE. He was thrilled to go up and throw the football through the tire. He was so happy that day in so many ways. This is a memory I will be forever grateful for sharing with my Daddy. I have posted the video of that day. It will show his throw that day, and the helmet that he won. We were all winners that day.


This new year's eve 2010 will be more difficult for me then Christmas without my Dad. It seems strange but I almost feel by ending that last special year with him I am closing a door. I know the door to heaven will be open and we will be reunited one day.
I am looking forward to 2010 and what it will bring to my life. I have much to look forward to with my boy's and Charles in my life. I'm not one to make resolutions but prefer to make goals.

Goals can be changed and altered, to me resolutions sound more serious haha.

Some other highlights of this past year for me were......



Having my oldest son Tyler graduate from high School, leave home, and go to college in another state. How I survived it I dont know.

Learning a new way of charting at work with EPIC. Paperless charting was hard to loose, but we did it.

We also lost two special pets Skeeter and Winslow.

We also gained a new pet Louie.

We started our chicken coop.

I started wearing glasses..ugh

I met a new friend frm France

I learned different methods of painting interior walls.

This being said I will leave on a positive note saying I am eager and happy to enter 2010 at the place where I am, but also ready to move in different directions.