Don't let your babies grow up to... ride snowmobiles...

This week we attended the wake of our 23 year old neighbor who died in a snowmobile accident.  It was the saddest thing I have done in a long time and these accidents are happening too often to too many young people.  Now that I have my own child, the death of these young people get to me a lot more.  I can't imagine what the parents are going through.  You have so many hopes and dreams for your children and you never think they'll die so young.  I'm sure his parents has visions of him 30 years from now; who he would have been married to, his children, if he'd still be farming with his dad and grandpa, how his life had turned out...  Those few hours when they didn't know where he was, must have been so horrible for everyone - and then getting the call that they had found him and he had died... So sad... It just goes to show how precious life can be and how it can be gone in an instant.  I think it also is sticking with me because Nick saw him riding snowmobile from our window the night he died.  He probably was one of the last people to see him.  He hit a drainage ditch not to far from where Nick saw him on that night.  We also saw the ambulance lights but at that time didn't know what had happened.  It's just so sad and something I hope I never have to go though.