Thank you Katherine Bray-Strickland

"I dreamed a dream with you
and it was an amazing dream
while it lasted"
(Paraphrased from the movie First Knight)

You took a lot from me when you left, but you gave me so much more while you were here. How silly, how foolish I have been to focus so much for so long on what I have lost and spend such little time thinking of what I was given. You gave me a living dream. I have experienced more love thus far in my short life than some get to in a full lifetime.

Angel you made me and still now as I live threw the month that marks my going back to having lived less days knowing you than not, I can say that you are still the only person who has ever been a necessity in my life. I am anything and everything I am because of you. And I know that no matter what this life without you brings I will be fine, no I will be good, because I am the man that you made me. And because wherever I go, I take you with me in the memories I have lived and the goals that I hope to.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!  For all that I am and all I may ever be, Thank you!

So for those who want to know what an exercise in mixed feelings would look like, I give you my month of June…


1. Just went to my good friends Sean and Mandy’s beautiful wedding (thanks and congrats guys). It was fabulous, but with the obvious personal anxieties as well as the fact that their pastor also officiated Kate and my wedding.

2. In around a week I go on the family beach trip. Always an awesome time, but it’s the same beach I proposed to Kate on.

3. I accepted an offer on the house Kate and I lived in so that I could move. The buyers closing date (thus the day I move out of our house), is June 28th, what would be Kate and my 2nd year wedding anniversary.