This summer has been a whirlwind of activity for us. High School graduations, new nephews, car shows, camping and road trips. The race season has begun and it seems that almost every weekend is filled with something. The first weekend of August was our first wedding the year. Our dearest friends Jennifer Smith and Jerry…
Our summer started with a bang. With a cross-country trek. Our first trip started with an eight-hour drive to Las Vegas to attend a high school graduation. We spent the first weekend of June there, with family that hailed from Oregon, Arizona and California. There was almost two dozen of us there for the event….
~ Part Two ~ Father’s day was a very rough day for me. To be honest, I wanted to pretend and stay in bed for the day. To quote my husband, it was a bittersweet day. It has been six months since my father passed away, and my first father’s day without him in the…
A Two-Part Father’s Day Tribute I am seriously behind in sending out my blog and I am sorry for that. It has been a long hard road to walk this last month, and I’m slowly pulling out of my funk. We have managed to fill a lifetime into two weeks, so I apologize in advance…
My dad passed away on December 10, 2014. An unexpected and sudden death, most likely a heart attack. He turned 58 years old in October, the youngest of three children. He was larger than life to almost everyone who knew him, and almost everyone who knew him loved him. It was virtually impossible not to….