Anything But Gray

Tonight was the first game of the football season.
Zak and I were both excited and we planned on going up to the bar to watch the game for date night. We were both a little bit bummed though because we always, always watch football with Marky and there's no Marky here anymore. So there was a teeny bit of missing Marky going on, but we were still excited.

Anyway, the game started before we left for date night so we put the t.v. on to start watching it before Kayla got here and we could leave. The kids were sitting at the table eating their "date night" dinner (McDonald's…it's their treat for date night.) And Ben is standing up in his chair, (typical…) and watching the t.v.
He then all of a sudden says "Uncle Marky's not here?"

Both Zak and I look at each other, completely amazed and broken hearted all at once. I actually teared up a little  bit. We were broken hearted because yeah, Uncle Marky isn't here for football anymore and we're bummed about that and we miss him. And we were amazed because we just never would've thought Ben would put the two things together. We hadn't said anything in front of the kids about Marky not being here for football. And it's not like Uncle Marky only came over during football, he came over all the time. But Ben apparently is way more aware than we have thought and it just totally blew our minds.
And it was just adorable.

We love you bro and miss you tons!!
FYI…you didn't miss much tonight, the game wasn't all that exciting…