04.14.07
Happy Birthday
happy 27th Lucas. I Miss U so much. Wish U were here. I dont know right now what to say except that you are one of the best people I have ever known.
04.03.07
April 3
Last year as Lucas’s birthday approached I spent alot of time trying to find picutres of his birthday to include in my post for that day. I knew his birthday was around Easter some years and I took the time to look up easter day 1983 when I found this picture of my Mother, Ya Ya, and Lucas at Easter. Lucas would still be two in this picture but about to turn three.
My Mother and Dad moved to Millbrook in 1983 to be close to us. I asked Lucas one day in the last year of his life if he remembered Ya Ya very well. He said he always thought she was “mean” which made me laugh because she was not mean but pretty loud and very direct spoken. He also said one time he thought they lived in Millbrook their whole life… he did not remember them moving there just to be close to us…. such a weird thought to me since my parents and I moved around the country as an Army family. Anyway…. here is Lucas with YaYa on April 3, 1983.
And another April 3 picture from 1993… the famous blizzard in Montgomery Alabama occured on April 3 1993 and we all got to stay home from school and Lucas built a snowman. It was a good April 3 for all the school children in Montgomery.
I get a kick out of this picture because those have to be Jerry’s gloves and it is one of my cheerleading (pink) sweatshirts, and even the hat on the snowman seems to be borrowed from the back of Pop’s truck… Lucas had a good time building the snowman that day. I’m so glad we got the camera out to snap the picture of him .. I miss you, Lucas, today and every April day.