Busy times - both happy and sad....

We have not posted for a while. Unfortunately Jamie's dad died on Wednesday August 10th. He had been in hospital with an aspiration pneumonia for 4 days. During this time Jamie had been working at Tawas so we were several hours drive away so there were several rather hectic days driving to the hospital and back, but we are very glad that we were able to spend time with him over those few days and also on the Friday before he was admitted to hospital. Jamie and Jon both wrote tributes to their Dad and Jamie was brave enough to stand up at the memorial service and read his which we have posted below.

Thankfully, Jamie's work has been SO accommodating - really going beyond what we could have ever expected with giving him extra time off and swapping shifts so that we would have less distance to drive when he was really ill and offing to allow him to swap his days off these last two weeks (one of which he was meant to work nights). During all this time we were also buying THE house, so there were inspections and negotiations continuing with me driving to and fro to do all of this. I think we have done an extra couple of thousand miles in our trusty truck! But that has all gone through ok and two very tired people camped the night on Tuesday August 23rd!!! We even had our first guest to stay that night in our guest room - Jamie's mom came with flowers, candles, home-baked brownies and stayed the night too!