I came across some home videos the other day of Christmas time and some other random family events. One video that I found myself watching over 4 or 5 times was one from Christmas 2007, in my junior year of high school. This was the last Christmas that everyone was together and watching it made me choke up a little bit. The video was of Grandpa Oliver singing a Christmas carol in Norwegian. It's been two years since he passed away and man, has everything changed since he's been gone. I can remember everything about that stressful week; what I was wearing, what books I was reading in the hospital, what I ate and the first time I saw him in a mood that wasn't Grandpa Haugen. Sometimes I think he was what brought everyone together.
I still have the note from him right before I went to Texas for a mission trip, "May God bless you in all that you do throughout your life."
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