how did you meet craig um craig and i met in college uh he was a junior and i was a freshman
and we played basketball for the college so we met at the basketball court he used to follow
me around and bring me flowers and on his 21st birthday he came to my basketball game instead of
going out um i was actually on the fall line and he walked in and i saw him and i completely missed
like i hit nothing but backboard so i thought well if he's gonna miss his 21st birthday to come watch
me play and we started dating and 10 months later we were engaged stayed engaged for three years
until i graduated my mother's role and then we were married in july right after i graduated
college alex favorite memory of your dad he took me shopping at target our thing was redecorating
my room which i did quite often and he let me shop around target for probably two or three
hours i would say fill up two carriages with a bunch of stuff for my room and when we got to the
cash register he was like all right let's go and i was like um what about the stuff and we left the
store and i was rather confused and then lo and behold i came home the next day from school and my
room was completely redecorated top to bottom with everything i'd picked out from target and more
and i love that memory because it shows who he was as a funny jokester person but also who he
was as a dad he was very thoughtful and always selfless and he put other people before himself
to make people happy because he knew that was something that made me happy shouldn't he
i transferred a week into the spring semester last year i play basketball and the first game
i had it was it's like three out three and a half hours from our house no one told me that they were
coming it was my first ever college basketball game because i was hurt for a couple months
no they were like yeah we can't make it we're not coming i get there and there's like no fans
like no fans in the sand and then you just see my six six dad sitting in the bleachers
and then he i don't think he missed the game after that colby should i come back to you every
like sunday morning we would always be like the first ones to wake up you would wake up at like
five in the morning and i would like wake up at eight and he would like always like take me out to
like starbucks or something just so we could like spend that like time together before everybody
else woke up because you were the only two up and with five kids you've got to figure out how
you're going to steal time from each of them caden give me your favorite memory my favorite memory
playing cards because cards was kind of his thing and uh he was a big entertainer so
you kind of like stole the show and it was it was it was really fun playing no matter where
we went if you're on vacation we were with friends came over or something we'd always
play cards and he'd make up his own games and stuff kindly just me and him would go and
walk across like the boardwalk or um the edge of the sand where like
the water meets and we'd find those little little swirly shells and we just have like
buckets full of them and i think of course i like the shells but it was more of just being able to
have that specific time with him without having to try to fight for time with my four other siblings
it's a lot to deal with having such a large family on the other hand many hands make light work
yeah as much work as they create they help at the same time
not only the the physical things that need to get done but just to be able to share all of
our different stories and our different takes on stories and um you know having all of us together
it's going to help keep my husband alive and with us craig is sitting all around
you and when i look at them i can see it i see the mannerisms i see the behaviors i see a little bit
a lot of him in each of them more so than myself and most of them so that um comforts me
and them they like to hear that i think they like to hear they're like their dad