But this was all cruelly rippedapart in June last year when Ceri Fuller, 35, took the three children to a wooded beauty spot at Pontesbury Hill in Shropshire where he stabbed them to death before taking his own life.
Now he was telling me about current politics and how the government was seeking to unify the country and focus on the future after being brutally rippedapart during the Pol Pot years from 1975 to 1979.
The older girl was charged with aggravated menacing for a tweet that threatened homicide and said "you ripped my family apart, " according to the attorney general's office.
Joe McMahon lifted the siege in the 52nd minute to cut Donegal's lead to four points but within a minute the game was as good as over when McFadden blasted to the net after the Tyrone defence had been rippedapart.