Do you remember where your daddy went?
To God
He went to God?
Yep
Kody and I met in High-School
Probably our Freshman year through some mutual friends
and we had lunch together our sophomore year
He was talking about going to the zoo with his mom and I told him I hadn't been to the zoo in a long time
and he was like, well you should go with us and I was like... Okay
and then that morning he showed up at my front door and later that night I realized that we were on a date
That's how we ended up together and we've been together ever since
He was home for the first 7 months of my pregnancy and then he deployed
and he missed the birth He did skype it
and then he met our son when he was 6 months old
and he was home for about 18 months
and then he left again
and he was gone for about 2 weeks and then I had to facetime him and tell him that I was pregnant again
He wanted to have a family
I mean look at us, we're 24 with a house, 2 kids, 2 dogs
Those were his goals, he wanted to be that All-American family
I was actually on my way here from Louisiana when Levi was being born
We were at a rest area in Lake City and I'll never forget it, Kody called me and he was so incredibly sad
that he wasn't here for the birth of his son
You know I'm sitting in a rest area just trying to console him and I told him, I said
You know Kody, it's okay. I mean, you're gonna have so many birthdays with Levi
You know he doesn't remember that you won't be here for this one
You're gonna have so many Birthdays with him
and now.... That's not the case
You know he was hit by a drunk driver maybe a mile from where he was born
He was born on NAS JAX and he was killed right outside the gates of NAS Jax
I was there for his first heartbeat and I felt his very last heartbeat
and I don't think anybody should have to go through that and it wasn't necessary
it was not something that had to happen, ultimately somebody getting behind the wheel
after drinking
He took all of that from all of us
think about the little girl's life that you are changing forever
that little one year old, that's going to look at the picture
and cry about her daddy
because that's who's life you're taking away by getting behind the wheel
you're ruining that little girl's life
If I had 5 more minutes with him I would just tell him how proud I was of him
and what an amazing man he grew into
I mean, I talk to him all the time he may not answer me in voice
but he comes to me in my dreams
so...I'll take that.
somebody drinking and driving there's just no way to justify that you are able to take that
from another family
Do I think that he set out to do something like this, absolutely not, I don't think it was intentional
but you intentionally drank so you know the consequences