MFF -

It still doesn’t feel real that we are writing these words to you instead of saying them to you. There will never be words big enough to explain how much we love you, how deeply we miss you, or how much of us will always belong to you.

You were truly the best husband and the most incredible father we could ever have wished for. You were the heart of our little family, our happiness, our safe place, and the person who somehow always made everything feel like it was going to be okay.

You loved life, and you made everyone around you love it a little more too. You were always smiling, always positive, always finding a way to make people laugh. You had this incredible energy that people were drawn to. You made ordinary days fun just by being there, and wherever you went, you brought so much life with you.

So many people loved you, but we were the luckiest ones of all because we got to call you ours. I got to call you my husband, and Kenza and Noura got to call you Papa.

I wish more than anything that you could be here to watch your girls grow up. There are so many moments I wish you could see, so many things I still want to tell you, and so much of life we were supposed to live together. But no matter how many years pass or how much life changes around us, in our hearts it will always be the four of us. That will never change.

You loved being active. You loved working out and running. You were strong, competitive and always pushing yourself, so doing this run for you feels exactly right. We can almost picture you there. You would definitely be running ahead of us, smiling, making jokes and somehow turning the whole thing into the most fun day ever.

What we would give to see that smile waiting for us at the finish line.

Every step will be for you. For your strength, your beautiful positive spirit, the way you lived your life, and the enormous love you gave us. A love we will carry for the rest of ours.

Life will never be the same without you. But you are still everywhere in our lives. You are in Kenza. You are in Noura. You are in the things they say and do that make me stop and think of you. You are in our stories, our laughter, our tears, and in all those memories that somehow make us smile and break our hearts at the same time.

Most of all, you are in the love that will always hold the four of us together.

We love you more than words could ever explain. We miss you in ways words could never capture. And wherever life takes us, we will carry you with us in everything we do, everywhere we go, always.

It was always the four of us. It will always be the four of us.

Your girls forever,
Sophie, Kenza and Noura ❤️