 By: Gavin Haubelt Web Site: www.MickeyNews.com |
 Over the last few weeks I have been spending a lot of time in thought as to what is really important to me in my life. Call it a midlife crisis (I am sucking up to 40), call it soul searching, call it what ever you like but it has been a powerful experience with me. Over the last few weeks I have thought a lot about what I want for the future, for myself as well as my family, and have thought about what is really important in my life. I have discovered it isn't the car I drive, it isn't the house I live in or the vacations I do or don't take, but it is the six other people I share my life with. Those are The Important Things in my life and without those things I have no life.
This is the first in a series of little tributes I am posting that celebrate The Important Things in my life. I know to some of you they will be meaningless bits and pieces of someone's life you don't even know, but to The Important People in my life I hope they do mean something. This site was developed with The Important Things in mind and it is a place for people who share a common joy, Disney, to get the news and information about something they are passionate about and I am passionate about Disney, but it pails in comparison to the passion I feel for my family, the most amazing wife a man could ask for and the greatest kids on the planet. I have been told many times in the recent weeks how blessed I am to have a family like mine and I couldn't agree more with that. I am truly a blessed person to have what I have. All the riches in the world could not even replace one of them. My family is a blended family and over the years that has show to be a difficult thing to go through but one that I chose to be a part of.. On September 22, 2001 I made a commitment to them all and I plan on honoring that commitment or die trying. Angela, Jake and Kylie, I promised to love you, to support you and to take care of you until the day I die. I know I haven't been perfect and there is a lot of work we must do, but I do love you all and I want to care for you, support you and love you all until the day I die. Kylie, I remember the first trip we ever took to Disneyland like it was yesterday. I remember just getting of Pirates with you and Jake, and mom wanted to go check out the ornaments in the Christmas Shop so you and Jake and I waited outside. I had the video camera rolling as I wanted to capture every moment of the joy you and your brother had on that trip. You came running up to me, with that great big smile and those baby blue eyes and my heart just melted. You were, and still are, so beautiful and I love you so much. I know I haven't always said the right things, and I know I have more often than not said the wrong things and for that I am so sorry. I am working on only the right things coming out of my mouth. Jake, I remember you and I getting up before mom and Kylie so we could be the first ones in the park. We would go ride a few rides and then grab something to eat and wait for mom and Kylie to come and join us. We would spend the day riding rides and watching parades and taking pictures. Then at night, that one COLD winter night, you and I concord the mountain, over and over again!! That was our famous, much talked about, Splash Mountain Marathon. Of course mom and Kylie had left us hours before for the warmth of the hotel room, but you and I just kept going over and over again. It was so much fun. I remember both of us on that long long walk back to the hotel. We were soaked to the bone and cold as could be. But what a night, would never change that. Thanks for being an amazing young man, never stop trying and never stop caring.
This is a little slide show of the day our lives changed forever! If I had a time machine to take us back to this point, I would do it all over again! The three of you are so very important to me words can not describe it. I know my actions haven't always done a very good job of it either but I am trying and promise to never stop trying. Here is a little slide show I made showing the first of The Important Things... I hope you enjoy it. WATCH
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Angela, the day I saw you in this dress had to have been the best day of my life to date. You were breathtaking! Your beautiful dress, your amazing smile, the most amazing blue eyes I have ever seen, and yes even the bangs that you hated thanks to Bozley. You took my breath away and you still take my breath away. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it is much more than skin deep. You are a lucky woman as your beauty runs from your skin all the way down to your soul. Your beauty has never faded to me and I don't see how it ever could. You are an amazing mother, a great wife, a good friend and truly the love of my life and I want the whole world to know that.