Now I feel like an even worse slacker...

So I had no idea how very slack I had been in updating this Blog until I saw that the last update said that Ryan was now 5 months old... he's now 4 years old and has a sister Rachel who is 18 months old. I can't even believe how fast time flies.

This past weekend my family and I had to travel to New Castle, PA to attend the funeral of my grandfather, Edward Owens (Grandpa Eddie). It was a stark reminder of how much we can take for granted the preciousness and brevity of life. One day he was here and the next day he was gone. I will miss him tremendously and hope that I can some day live up to the ideal that he held me up to. He was a great man with a big heart and will be missed by many people. It was the first funeral I have ever been to where a McDonald's coffee cup was worked into one of the flower arrangements.

So I am hoping to keep up to date on this blog a little better this time. Since it has been a long time since I have updated, we'll see how this goes!