Sorry I haven't been around.

[Ms Grumpy]

Thank you for all your kind words. Today I have my grand daughter who is 6 and understands that Kristie is gone and that she will never see her again. But it is hard for her to understand why her mom is so sad and crying a lot. We are doing our best to answer her questions so that she will understand. The funeral is on Friday morning and I am sure she will have so many more questions.

It is so hard to comprehend the loss of a 25 yr old woman. There are a lot of contributing factors but from what we know. Kristie was riding a 4 wheeler, not one of the little ones, but a pretty big one. She was going too fast and tried to turn, at that point she was thrown from the 4 wheeler and was killed instantly. We don't know much more than that, we don't want to intrude on the family, they will tell more when they are ready.

My heart just goes out to this little baby girl, she is not even a yr old and she has lost her mom. I do give the parents of Kristie a lot of credit for thinking of the little one. They have set up a fund for the baby's future and asked that instead of flowers that friends and family make a donation to the fund, which will be available to the child when she is 18 or 21.

This is a wonderful family, who only 2 days before Kristie's death, lost their grandfather. So much tragedy in such a short period of time. Sad....

Here is a link to a little about this beautiful young lady. http://v3.fserv.net/bin/get/obit.php?fid=3419