My uncle Bill, my dad’s brother, passed away on January 9th. It was an unexpected illness, but there was enough warning that his family had a chance to say goodbye. Unfortunately, due to the miles between us, we didn’t make it in time. Sam and I traveled out for the funeral, though, and it ended up being a really nice service where, thanks to some anecdotes collected from different family members, we got to hear some great stories about Bill and what he meant to his family and his community. We will miss you, Uncle Bill.
One of the small silver linings to any funeral is that it ends up gathering together a lot of people who haven’t seen each other in a while.Sam and I were able to spend some nice time with many of our extended family. Kate made it to Wisconsin at the end of the week so she was able to share in the reunion a bit, too. The nice thing about Sam’s current age is that he’s finally old enough to know his family, at least from pictures, and to look forward to seeing them. He had a great time playing with his grandparents, uncles, nieces and nephews. We’ve been looking at pictures from the trip almost daily. You can take a look at some of them by clicking the image below. Unfortunately, I only had my cell phone camera so the photos aren’t the highest quality…
Pictures from Wisconsin
Posted by Todd
Picture No. 8′s comment. I thought Ian just turned 23.
You know, and at 23 I’d like to think he’s big enough to share the toy car but it looks like he just used that “I’m an adult” logic to finagle it in picture no. 9.
Thank you for this nice message about my dad. It was nice to see you guys at the funeral and at the birthday party too!
Thanks Todd! It was so nice to see you!