Klayton Duncan Hoyland Smith (20 Dec 1992 - 7 Nov 2025)

Happy Father’s Day in Heaven.

Today, we are thinking about you and wishing we could give you the biggest hug. Even though you are no longer here with us, we carry you in our hearts every single day. We miss your smile, your voice, your laughter, and all the little things that made you our dad.

There are so many moments when we wish we could tell you about our lives, our achievements, our worries, and all the things that happen as we grow up. We hope you are watching over us and that you are proud of the young women we are becoming.

Thank you for loving us, for teaching us, and for giving us memories that we will treasure forever. The love between a father and his daughters never fades, and no distance—not even Heaven—can change that.

On this Father’s Day, we want you to know that we love you more than words can say and miss you more than our hearts can express. We will always carry your love with us wherever we go.

Until we meet again, we will keep making you proud and remembering you with smiles, tears, and so much love.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad

Love you to the moon and stars little princesses Gracie&Meme❤️🫶

Happy Heavenly Father's Day Klay ❤️
It feels strange not sending you a Father's Day card this year.
No matter where life took us, I always made sure one found its way to you, because no matter what you was such a great dad to our son, so today feels a little different.
Just because you're no longer here doesn't mean you're not thought about. You are remembered, talked about, and missed more than you'll ever know.
Kregan and I will be thinking of you today and remembering all the good memories.
I hope you're at peace and watching over us both.
Happy Heavenly Father's Day.
Love always and forever ❤️♾️

Klay,

On your first Father’s Day in heaven, we remember you with love and gratitude. Though you are no longer beside us, your love, strength and spirit live on in your children and in the hearts of all who knew you.

You were a cherished son and a devoted father. The kindness, wisdom, and unwavering love you gave remain among the greatest gifts you left behind, and they continue to guide those who love you.

Today, our hearts are filled with both love and longing as we hold close the memories of your smile, laughter, strength and the love that touched so many lives. We are deeply grateful to have been blessed to love you.

Gracie, Emelia, and Kregan think of you often and carry you with them every day, in their memories, their hearts, and the values you shared. We know you would be so proud of them.

On this Father’s Day, we send our love to Heaven and hope you can feel it. Until we meet again, know that you are loved, cherished and missed every day.

Happy Father’s Day in Heaven, Son.

Forever in our hearts, forever loved, and forever missed.

Your loving Mum 💔🕊️ xxxxxxxxx

Well Klay,
Our son turned 7 today.
I honestly don’t know where those seven years have gone. It feels like only yesterday we were bringing him home, and now he’s growing into the funniest, kindest, most amazing little boy.
He loved his birthday. The bikes and the helmet suit you got him were his favourite, and he was straight on both of them wearing his helmet 😂I know you would have been smiling from ear to ear watching him.
Last night I put silver and gold love heart confetti in his room and down the stairs leading to your present. The smile on his face when he saw them was something I’ll never forget. He knows no matter what his daddy is always going to be there,
I know you’ll be singing Happy Birthday to him today, from up above babe,
But if I’m honest, not having you here is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to face. There were so many moments today where I expected to hear your voice calling at some ridiculous hour of the morning asking if he was awake yet. The silence where you should be hurts more than I can ever explain.
Kregan misses you, and so do I.
I promise I’ll keep telling him about you, about how proud you were of him and how much you loved him. I’ll make sure he always knows his dad was excited for every birthday, every milestone and every moment.
We getting through today well trying , but there will always be a piece missing because you should have been here.
We love you and miss you every day.💙

Klay,
I don't even know where to begin anymore.
In just one week, our little boy turns another year older, and I can't get my head around the fact that this will be his first birthday without a phone call from you, without a birthday card, without hearing your voice telling him how much you love him.
I keep thinking about all the things you're supposed to be here for. The birthdays, the milestones, the watching him ride his bike, the little moments that seem so ordinary until they're taken away from you.
The other night, Kregan stood at the window and told you to keep waiting on heaven's stairs for him. I don't think I've ever had my heart broken so much in one moment. He misses you so much, Klay. He talks about you often, and I see so much of you in him every single day.
I wish you could see him. I wish you could see how much he's grown, how funny he is, how proud you'd be of him. There are so many things I want to tell you and so many times I still catch myself wanting to pick up the phone to write you little emails about our day like old times.
The truth is, I'm still struggling to accept that you're gone. Some days I can keep myself busy and get through them, and other days it hits me all over again that you're never coming back. No matter how much time passes, that reality still feels impossible to comprehend.
Losing you has devastated me to my core. Not just because of what I've lost, but because of what Kregan has lost too. My heart breaks for him in ways I can't even explain. He deserved more time with you. We both did.
I promise I'll keep talking about you. I'll keep telling him your stories, your jokes, the things you loved, and the kind of man you were. I'll make sure he always knows how much his dad loved him.
I'm missing you more than ever. I just wish you were here. I wish I could hear your voice one more time. I wish Kregan could have one more hug and been thrown in the air like he loved, I wish I could hold you even just one time.
I hope somehow you know how loved you still are.
Forever missed.
Forever loved.
Until we meet again. 🤍♾️

My beautiful son, Klay

Six months have passed since you left this world, and not a single day has gone by without me thinking of you. You are with me in every moment, but especially in my dreams each night, where I still get to see your face, hear your voice, and feel close to you again. Those moments mean everything to me.

You are loved more than words could ever express, and you are missed more deeply than anyone could imagine. The world feels different without you in it. There is an ache in my heart that will always belong to you.

I carry you with me every day, in my thoughts, in my memories, in my heart forever. I hope somehow you can feel just how loved you still are, and always will be.

Until I dream of you again.
Your loving mum
💔💔💔🪽xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Dad,

We miss you more than words can ever explain.

You weren’t just our dad — you were our safe place, our laughter, and so many of our happiest memories. We still think about all the times you took us to the park, pushing us on the swings, making us laugh, and just being there with us. Those moments meant everything, and they always will.

You loved treating us and making us feel special. You always called us your princesses, and that’s something we’ll carry in our hearts forever. We were so lucky to be your two daughters, and we hope you knew just how much we loved being yours.

We still have the slide you bought us, and every time we see it, it reminds us of you — of your kindness, your love, and the way you always wanted to make us smile.

Thank you for teaching us how to ride a bike, for believing in us, and for never giving up on us even when we were scared. Those little things you did are now some of the biggest memories we hold onto.

Life feels different without you here, and we miss you so much it hurts. But we carry you with us every day — in our memories, in our hearts, and in everything you taught us.

It was my birthday the other day we all sat round the table talking about how you give mummy food poisoning 😂
We was just missing you💔

We will always be your princesses.

To the moon and stars
Your two daughters
Gracie and Meme 💕🫶

My Klay-play,

I don’t know if letters reach where you are, but I need to believe that somehow, some way, you can feel this.

I still call you Klay-play in my head. It makes me smile and break at the same time. We met when we were just kids—17 and 16—like we had all the time in the world to figure things out. And maybe we didn’t always get it right… we didn’t have the easiest story, did we? But we had our story. And there was love in it. Real love.

I keep thinking about the good parts lately. Dancing in the kitchen for no reason, just laughing and being stupid together. Sneaking around like we were still teenagers, even when life had already made us grow up too fast. Those moments felt so light… like nothing else mattered.

And then there’s the life we made. Our two beautiful girls. You gave me them—us. That will always be the greatest piece of you still here with me. I see you in them more than you’ll ever know.

I think about that time we reconnected, and how it felt like no time had passed at all. Like you never really left. You showed up the way you always did—looking after us, thinking of the girls. I can still see them playing on that slide you got them for their birthday, hear the laughter filling the garden. That BBQ… it was such a simple day, but it meant everything. It felt like old times. It felt like us.

I wish we had more of those days.

There’s so much I could say, but it always comes back to this—I’m grateful for you. For the love we had, even when it was messy. For the memories that still live in the quiet corners of my mind. For the way you cared for us, in your own way.

I miss you more than I can explain. And I hope, wherever you are, you know that you were loved. You are loved. You always will be.

I’ll keep telling our girls about you. About your laugh, your kindness, the way you made ordinary moments feel special. I’ll keep your memory alive in them, in me, in all the little things that remind me of you. Leah sent me the video of you pushing the girls on the swing the other day to hear the girls shout daddy daddy faster made my heart hurt
I don’t no if I’m ever going to be back to my normal self but Im hurting.💔

My Klay-play… you’ll always have a piece of my heart.

Always yours,

Dad,

Losing you left a silence
no words can truly fill.

But in that silence
we hear echoes of you—
your laughter in our memories,
your advice in our thoughts,
your love in everything you taught us.

You showed us how to be strong
without losing our kindness,
how to face the world bravely
even when it feels unfair.

We wish we had one more day,
one more hug,
one more chance to say
how much you meant to us.

But even though you are gone from sight,
you are never gone from our hearts.

You live in the stories we tell,
in the lessons we carry,
and in the love between us
that you helped create.

Thank you for being our dad,
our guide,
our greatest supporter.

We will carry your love
for the rest of our lives.

Love you moon and stars your princess❤️❤️❤️❤️

still catch myself thinking about you in the quiet moments.

In the middle of an ordinary day, something small happens — a song, a smell, a joke you would’ve loved — and for a split second I reach for you like you’re still here. Like I could still text you. Like we still have time.

We didn’t end up together, and life took us down different roads, but that never erased what we were to each other. What we shared was real. The love, the laughter, the hard days, the growing up side by side — all of it mattered. You mattered.

There are things I wish I’d said. Things I wish I’d done differently. But more than anything, I wish you were still here, somewhere in this world, living and breathing and becoming whoever you were meant to be.

It’s strange missing someone who used to be “mine,” but isn’t anymore — and still feeling that loss so deeply. Grief doesn’t seem to care about labels like ex or past. It just knows the heart once loved, and that love doesn’t disappear.

I hope you knew, somewhere deep down, that you were important to me. That you changed me. That parts of who I am will always carry pieces of you.

I talk to you sometimes, in my head. I hope you’d smile at that.

I miss you. I always will.
And I’m grateful I got to love you at all
Me and the girls miss you forever and always ❤️