The Day of My Best Friend's birth..............

I so wanted to make this post on Friday but that day was quite crazy. I had spent three of the days last week at a seminar/workshop put on by Franklin Covey organization called 7 Habits of Highly Effective People at the invitation of my Company's founder and president. He sent his executive assistant down here to Houston to join me and we both went through it. It was actually one of the best workshops I have been to in quite some time. Very good. Very real. Very much of where I am right now in my walk in Life! Along with my relationship with the Lord, the incredible love and support of my husband, what I learned in this workshop will help me in the crazy world we live in. BUT, that's not the purpose of this post.

What I am wanting to do in this post is honor my husband. Yesterday, February 3 was Tim's birthday. We had 40 people (adults and kids) at our house enjoying the fellowship, watching Eli Manning and Giants upset New England in the SuperBowl (which made me a very HAPPY person) and also celebrating the birth of my Best Friend........and Soul-Mate. I even surprised Tim and flew in Eric and his girlfriend from Lubbock so they could enjoy our celebration. We had a most wonderful time.

I am so grateful that the Lord put Timothy E Gannon on this earth February 3, 1964 (yes, that makes me 10 months older). Though it would be some 40 years later that we would find each other the man I was born to love was born! I could go on and on and on but I mainly wanted to honor him on his special day and to share something very DEAR to my heart. Since Tim and I have been together I have asked everybody for pictures of him when he was young. His mom, through many moves didn't have much (other than group pics where he was playing and not really looking at the camera). Because I couldn't place him when he was young, it was like something huge missing inside of me. He had seen tons of pictures of me growing up (since my mom was the queen of picture taking obsession with me a real close second and Steph closing in). He could look at me and picture me at any age of my life. He can look at Shannon (our 17 year old) and see me. BUT, I couldn't do that. It was a real void in me. We had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to go through trunks of pictures that had been at his house where his boys live. And lo and behold, I came across pretty much every age of Tim Gannon. I cried........tears of joy. Finally there was completion. I could look at him and see him at every age. I can now look at that beautiful smile of his and see it on his young face. I can now stare into those incredible eyes of his and see youth. I can picture his face young and strong when I look now and see the lines of life on that handsome and strong face. He is incredibly handsome to me. When I look at his pictures of his teen years I think of what if I knew him then............I know I would have been all over that..................he was so handsome then!!!!!

I'm sharing them as a tribute to my Baby...............oh how I love that man!