I truly wish I was there to wish you the Happiest Birthday in the Whole Wide World...but with Mia there i know she is wishing you just that!!! Now that i am starting to catch you in years-lets forget natural laws, physics, all that stuff- i think i am finally starting to see what you have always seen, what you have always said was important. Like going to David Wells Perfect Game. You knew it would be a perfect day well before he threw his first pitch because you were at a Yankee game with your family...and to you, what could be more perfect!  Or, when Sam brought Mia her stuffed dog only days after she was born. You were not there to see it at that moment, but on the phone i know you saw something special in how your two "grand" daughters would be forever connected. These little girls, this next generation, i could just "see it" in your voice. And of course, it's all over your face in the above photo at my 50th...even if the rest of us could barely see Mia's tiny body, you could see everything clearly, especially the things that needed to be seen and felt and cherished.

Your Family- your sons, Lois, how much your grand-kids and your extended family of Josana and Heather mean to you.  Again, i wish you the Happiest Birthday imaginable! And, I have no doubt, none, God knows all too well how much you deserve it!  I wish i was there to see you and enjoy it with you.  But know, we'll be blowing out candles as a family in your honor...i'll take a picture, so you can see it!

Love and Happpppy Birthday!!

Cliff, Josana, Matt, Samantha and of course your "grand-dog-er" Abby! 

PS: Something to celebrate and be proud of, as we all are of you Dad---"seeing is believing"!