Well, here we are. It's our first Father's Day without you. We have to say, you really timed things perfectly. You guaranteed that we'd never forget you. Truth be told, Father's Day from this year on will never be the same. On July 1st, it will be 5 months since you passed away . We never thought we'd be going through this . We still have a hard time dealing with this , Actually the last year of your life, watching you so valiantly battle cancer, was hard enough. But the final indignity of having to watch you die was more than we could take. It never ceased to amaze us that the world continued to turn after you took your last breath. We fully expected things to just stop right then and there but it didn't. Mr. Meeko misses you terribly Grandpaw , we talk to him about you all the time , We have pictures of you everywhere to remind us of all the good times we had together. When we say our prayers at night , we always makes sure to ask God to treat you well. Mark and I have been doing a little work around the house. We find ourselves reaching for the phone to call you and get your opinion. After you died, one of the hardest things was looking around the house and seeing how many projects you'd been involved in. Your influence and ideas are everywhere. We miss being able to call you up and bouce ideas off you and get your take on things. We miss calling you and venting and having you tell us things would be all right and that we just have to calm down and have faith. We miss you. I'm sitting here, writing this letter , tears rolling down my cheeks, missing you so much it physically hurts. The pain in my heart that had faded to a dull ache over the past few months is amping back up to "someone jamming a dagger into my chest". It's been hell these past few weeks, especially with the advertising for Father's Day reaching fever pitch, to be constantly reminded that we will not be celebrating with our own husband /father/father-in-law / grandpaw this year. We hope Heaven is all you hoped it would be. We hope you're up there, watching over us, reunited with everybody who'd gone before you. We hope that you're fishing with Grandpa's Wilson and Martell and uncle Bob and laughing up a storm . We hope that everything we've been taught and believed is true and that someday we'll see you and everyone we miss deeply again. We miss you Lyle, Dad, Grandpaw ~ More than we ever thought possible. Happy Father's Day. We were blessed beyond words ~ You were the best Husband, Father, Father-in-law and Grandpaw anyone could ever have ask for ~ We are so grateful to have so many wonderful memories of you and all the fun times we had together too . We're going to try not to cry to much today, but it will be hard. You'll be missed so much today , But we have a sneaking suspicion you'll be with us in spirit. All our love always and forever, Bonnie, Mark, Denise & Meeko