A Day in the Life of...: As One Life Ends...Another Begins

Sunday, August 9, 2009

As One Life Ends...Another Begins

This past Saturday was a very sad, very happy, very special day. Ron, the kids and I traveled over to the Seattle area to finally put Ron's brother Kevin to rest. Kevin passed away a year and a half ago and after many complicated, unforeseen moments, his daughter Christy and her mom were able to make it here from Oklahoma to scatter Kevin's ashes in the Puget Sound. The Sound is a very special place to the Reis family and hopefully it is somewhere we will all end up together. We took a ferry from Mukilteo, the Captain stopped the boat, announced to the other passengers what was happening, let us have our moment, sounded the horn and continued to Whidbey Island. Irish Eyes was sung followed by the WSU Fight Song and I am sure Kevin was pleased. I have to say, I am very impressed by the Mukilteo Ferry system and the Captain.

Unfortunately, one of the brothers, Mark (Danica's dad), had to have emergency kidney stone surgery Thursday morning and missed out on the "guys only" fishing expedition, the service and following poker game.

We headed back to John and Debbie's house and followed up with a baby shower for our niece Danica!! Danica is due in September and we are so excited for her! She and her husband Rick have decided to wait to find out if it is a girl or boy...good for them, but they sure make it hard to find a gift with a "safari" theme that is neutral!! I think we all did pretty well though!

It was, all in all, a really great weekend. I just absolutely believe I married into the best family possible (well actually Ron married into the best family, but the Reis' are a close second!).

The Beautiful Christy Reis