HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEIL ( yesterday )

Not the day that we had planned at all really. Started off with a funeral.

Funerals are sad. Funerals at Christmas are doubley sad. Funerals for guys who are about your age and was diagnosed with the same cancer that you had at almost the exact same time that you were... can really mess with your mind. So yes, this is how we started Neil's birthday. A lot more grateful that usual this year for sure.

 big crowd

 I really did not know the guy at all, so I let everyone at St Johns go to the funeral and I set up the reception that followed, everyone brought something. A yankee pot luck funeral. Turned out to be a lot of work, but was happy to help out in any way I could.