• real life

    A Picture Summary

    The last few months of last year I was pretty much in survival mode. Here are the highlights of that time: Near the end of September, my grammy went to to be with the Lord. She was 90 years old, and I will forever be grateful that her decline, while it was a hell week, was only a week. This picture was taken just a couple weeks prior. I don’t think I’ll ever come to a stage where I don’t miss her. For my 30th birthday weekend the Courtneys came out, and we conquered corn mazes and it was a great time with friends. …And my big ‘finale’ to 30 before…

  • family,  real life

    A bit late, but hello 2016

      Hello 2016, You’re now 11 days old, somehow. So far you’ve started with a bang and (hopefully) the last bit of the Snowpocalypse . 2015 saw my family saying good bye to three family members as they left this life. 2016 you are not starting off on a good foot by us also saying good bye to another uncle. You’re the first year I won’t have my grammy around. I know some day that will become real, but it still has not. It barely had become real that grandpa was gone. Irrevocable change has happened, and there will be more to come. I am just hoping it will be of…