You were all so kind in your thoughts expressed last month. Today I have a sad update: our daughter-in-law's brother, Ryan, lost his battle with cancer and heart failure this morning. Renee did make a second trip out to Seattle to spend more time with him; visiting there from December 12th - 19th. She took Jason (18 months old) with her and Bill and I helped our son by taking the girls ages 8 1/2 and 5 1/2 two nights and three days. We are so glad that Renee had that extra time with Ryan where they had some good talks about their favorite times together and laughed together over how his girlfriend's cat was afraid of all the get-well balloons people had sent.

Ryan's parents and girlfriend were with him when he died peacefully.