3rd Annual 30 Day Photo Challenge ~ Day 30 ~ Love

I planned this day in the challenge, not realizing that half of my family would be gone all this week, so I'm going to have to share an old picture.

Any picture of my Dad will forever have to be an old one, as he no longer occupies this world with us anymore.

This is a picture of him and my oldest, his first grandchild.

The baby none of us ever thought we would be able to have.

The baby that helped heal us all after the loss of the first one.

The baby who came after a year filled with the losses of my father's brother and mother.

Dad was a little nervous around him when he was first born because he was a preemie, but once he got a little more sturdy, he'd hold my son like this until he fell asleep.

If only we could grab pieces of time back, just for a moment...