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This is the Last picture taken of my Brother & I on December 27th, 1991. When I was ten years old I had a brother.   Shawn Ryan was born on June 14 th , 1991 in Longview Washington.   I still remember his smile awaiting me as I arrived home from Mrs. Holcomb’s fourth grade each afternoon.   In December, for the holidays, we drove the then five hour trip to my Grandma’s in Ferndale.   It was an amazing trip; we went to Whidbey Island and spent time at my Great Aunt Sharon’s condo with the extended family and cousins.   Before we headed home on the night of the 27 th , we made one last stop to see my Mom’s Cousin Michelle and her family.   My Mom had a tough time waking Shawn as Michelle insisted we stay the night.   But my Mom had to work in the morning and after an short visit, we reloaded our navy blue pinto and headed back home.    I still look at the pictures from that trip, everyone was happy, smiling, laughing and completely clueless to the tragedy ahead.   When we ar

Issac on May 23rd, 2009 just after being born. May 23 rd was Issac’s Third Birthday. We can hardly believe that our itsy bitsy bundle of boy is a walking, talking, singing and mud digging preschooler. Issac loves spending his days outside in the backyard playing with dirt, sticks, water, cars and his sister Josie.   Inside Issac enjoys coloring, play dough, Legos, cars, dinosaurs and cooking on his BBQ.   In between his outside adventures and his play time in his room, Issac enjoys watching Disney movies, the Magic School Bus & Willa’s Wild Adventures. Issac enjoys the park, the zoo and almost any other family activity. issac clinbing the bars at Angel Lake. Issac is an adventurous eater and enjoys almost anything we give to him.   For Breakfast he typically enjoys pancakes, fruit, toast, cereal, yogurt and eggs.   At lunch time Issac will ask for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, mac & cheese, chicken & fries, chili or tuna fish.   At dinner Issac will ea

It is already June.   What happened to May?   In April I had started a couple of different blog posts for the month but we got busy with life.   May was a busy month full of fun filled activities and many sunshine filled trips to the park.   Tyler’s work has been super busy so he worked some overtime.   We were blessed with an amazing amount of warm weather in May so the kids & I packed up many picnics and explored some of the area parks.   A few of the days we had some fellow adventurers, Cousin Erin & Jackson and Jen & Lily.   The kids LOVE the park.   Josie can spend hours on the swing and Issac has begun to scare me on the climbing bars.   But May also brought us many celebrations and milestones.  Both kids love going to the park. On the 5 th Tyler & I celebrated our 5 th wedding anniversary with a trip to Lake Tyee on Mt Baker.   We left the kids at my Mom’s house in Ferndale for two nights.   Friday night was stormy; we arrived late, couldn’t find the