Happy Birthday to you Papa Bear!

Barton to Carver was where my dad spent many happy years of his life floating the river. 

It is also where my mother and him shared their very first kiss.

It is also where his ashes were laid to rest. 

After we spread the remaining amount of them last year, Kyle and I decided we would float the river, just like he used to every year on July 11th, his birthday. When we did it last year we had SO MUCH FUN.

Wanted to do it this year but since we didn't have a babysitter we decided we would go to the beach with Noah and stop at a river along the way.

SO not exactly as we planned. But all in all we decided to make that a happy day remembering, celebrating and having fun in honor of my dad. 

I tried making this day not a day or mourning, but like i said celebrating.

But it was inevitable there would be tears. 

And God knew that. 

I had one moment where I broke down when I was eating breakfast at my kitchen table.

I have an app on my phone where I can read a daily devotional and a verse of the day. The verse of the day is completely random,  I have no control over which one my phone chooses. But during those 5 minutes I sat crying at the table, my phone lit up saying "dont forget to read your daily devotional" and so i clicked on it. and out of all of the verses in the bible that it could have picked for the verse of the day it just happened to be this one on this day at that very moment:

God knew exactly how to comfort me at that moment. I was blown away by his timing and love at the same time .

THANK YOU JESUS!