Beauty in Tragedy

 

Today we are participating in the

{This Moment} See Beautiful

hosted by our beautiful friend SUGAR 

 

 

 

First, 

 there has been a lot of this

at our house the last few weeks

Mom and Dad have both been sick so

we have have been here but not here

if you know what I mean

 

Mom finally got to stay home from work today

She wasn't sure what to post today

then she saw it was See Beautiful Friday

and read Easy's post about memories in pictures.

 

And she thought about last weekend

and how she saw

 

 Beauty in the midst of Tragedy

 

A new years eve auto accident on icy roads

claimed the lives of two young men in our community

 

One of them was a childhood friend of the grandson

Best of friends in earlier years

not as close in high school

 but they were brothers on the football field

Both home from college for the holidays they

had been trying to find time to get together when the tragic news came

 

When she heard, mom called her son

 he was going through the hundreds of photos he had taken over the years

 of the boys at sporting events (his hobby is sports photography)

He knew how important these memories would be to the family.

Along with other family photos he was able to put together

a 30 minute slide show that was shown at the funeral home

 as friends and family gathered in support.

 

Beauty in Tragedy

 

Saturday was the funeral

Thirty young men lined the aisle of the church to honor

their friend as the casket was brought in

 

Beauty in Tragedy

 

 

At the cemetery, the last prayers had been said

when his friends and team mates gathered around the casket

for one last football cheer

 

hoorah hoorah hoorah HOORAH!

 

Beauty in Tragedy

 

Sunday, Mom was expecting the son and family to come over and watch

the 49r's football game. But they decided to do something different.

Knowing the grandson would be going back to college soon,

the need to make some family memories outweighed watching football on TV

So they went out with the camera and took some beautiful family photos

 

 

 That sad morning,  when going through all the pictures, the son realized that while he had thousands of sports pictures, they no longer were taking many of just family stuff

and that needed to change

 

Beauty in Tragedy

 

We are the PugRanch Kids

Bailey, Hazel & Greta