A sad reminder

Mike, of course, is a sports fanatic. He actually watched part of the Pro Bowl on Sunday to get his last bit of football in until next season. As much as he likes watching though, he'd much rather be out playing sports, be active and be healthy. He's belonged to several different rec leagues over the years and will play anything. He's played for years on a Softball team from his old church and is good friends with several of the guys. Sunday morning we found out that one of the guys, who is about Mike's age, had a heart attack and died. He left behind a wife and two young children. It was tough because I think we have this idea that people who eat healthy and exercise a lot shouldn't have heart attacks and certainly shouldn't die from them at our age. The timing was interesting because Sunday we also had our picture taken at church. Our church has over 5000 people so we don't take church-directory-type pictures. A man from church though volunteered to take pictures of married couple. He is a professional photographer and his wife died unexpectedly. He found that he had lots of pictures, but not very many of the two of them together. So he wanted to honor his wife's memory by taking these photos for free and remind couples to treasure their time together. With Jimmy's death and these photos coming on the same day Mike and I feel very reminded that we need to treasure our moments together. It's sad way to be reminded of it though.