Born in Leesville, La on January 30th, 2000.
It was Super Bowl Sunday!

We met Lyndon's biological mother at the park for the first time to see him. I had seen him once before but this was the first time Phillip had seen him. Right away he responded very well to Phillip. It was like he knew he was his dad.

Our second visit at the park. We stayed 2 hours and played with Lyndon.

Met at the park once more.

Had plans to meet at Wal-Mart to pick Lyndon up for the day. His bio-mom walked around the store so we couldn't find her.

Picked Lyndon up at 9 am and brought him home at 4 pm.

This was the worst day of my life. Probably always will be. We found out about the accident in the late morning. Our commander at the time told me about it and then Phillip got back to the troop from trying to find me. It was a crazy day. We cried together and the chaplain was there. After that we had to get things in order for the insurance and flying down and all that. Austin was at school and we had no idea how we would tell him. We didn't until after we got to Louisiana and got up to get ready to go to the funeral home. I really thought my heart was just going to explode the whole time. I wasn't ready to go in there, i tried telling the director we could talk about the insurance but he insisted we go in and see him. Phillip and I were walking in and i couldn't breathe, it was so little. I stopped about half way to it and just stood there crying. The part of her family that was there noticed us and went to the back so we could see him. Oh God, I can still see him there. It hurts still and I don't ever think it will stop.