Im glad I wrote this I just need too. :)

Dear Grandpa,

I was on Facebook today and on the side it told me to "reconnect with you". I started crying (only a little bit though) It's been 4 months since your passing. It really doesnt feel like 4 months. In fact sometimes it doesnt even feel real. We are all there for Grandma and helping her to get through this rough time. We helped her move out of the house she lived in as a child and the house she then raised a family in with you. Her new house is really nice and it's close to Shawn and Michelles house! In a few weeks my Mom and I are taking Grandma on a trip with us to Conneticut to visit Kenny and Evlyn. I am hoping this will be alot of fun and a good get away for us three girls! My mom and I also plan to go to Boston for a day check out the city and visit my friend from high school. Everyone still misses you a ton but the strangeth you had in life is what is helping us. Pam and the girls organized a book we made about you. It is really great! It has the poem I wrote, the eulogy that Phil read at your funeral, memories that everyone wrote about, photos and quotes. It is truly a treasure. One day I will show it to my children and tell them about what a great man you were. We also have copies of the video Chad and Shawn made in memory of you. You had a strong set of moral values and were often caught performing random acts of kindness and I am hoping to follow in your path. I started a facebook event a little while ago because I wanted to see how far a random act of kindness like the ones you performed daily could go. I asked all my friends to buy coffee for the stranger behind them in line on July 5th. I am hoping this one day event will snowball into everyday acts of kindness! There even going to mention this event on the Grand Junction news! Tomarrow is Independence Day (the 4th of July) you were so patriotic in your service for our nation it truly takes strength, passion and bravery to serve in the marines like you did! So thank you! I just really needed to write this. Grandma told me you wrote poems too so maybe that is where I get my poetic creativeness from! As I wrote in my poem "Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch." I miss you like crazy!

Love love love (x a million), Andrea