January - Greg and Jenny went to Disneyworld for New years eve and then to the Purdue Bowl game. They came back Jan 4 to celebrate mom's 50th birthday. Serbian Christmas was Jan. 6th and 7th in Milwaukee.

    
 

In mid February, Greg won big at a poker tournament. On February 27th, we celebrated Greg's 23rd birthday by  going out to dinner at the Little Italian restaurant with our family, Jenny's family and Joe and Kris. During dinner, Mr. K. mentioned Greg and Jenny's summer European travel plans. We had not heard this news yet and were most surprised! After dinner we took these pictures  at  home , had cake and gifts.   After all the birthday fun, Greg stayed up till 5 a.m. trying for Cubs tickets which had just gone on sale. He successfully acquired two tickets for a game in June which subsequently Jenny and Greg's brother Chris went to in his memory.
 

March - Last photos all 4 Vasich brothers. Mike was home on spring break.

April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 2004 Greg went to visit Jenny at Purdue for the weekend. Annie and Ryan were there too. Ryan thankfully snapped these last photos of our dear Greg. Sunday afternoon, upon returning to Naperville, we were so happy to see him as we all had just returned from a trip to Florida for a week without him.  We showed him our digital photos and had dinner together.

April 5th, (opening day for the Cubs, they won 7-4)  Greg went to work at Ketchmark and Associates where he worked full time as a draftsman. He got a haircut after work.  Monday was the NCAA championship game UConn vs. Kentucky.  It was a lopsided game with UConn winning. Greg watched the game for a bit. He and Milt talked after the game about a graduate class Milt was taking, then  Greg talked to Jenny  on the phone and as they did each and every day they were apart.

April 6th, Tuesday, Greg went to work, came home and then went to Annie's Passover Seder dinner.

April 7th, Greg went to work, came home, walked Ginger, played trombone with Paul as he practiced his saxophone. Greg told Paul how musically talented he was. We had dinner, then watched a little American Idol.

April 8th, after breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Greg was whistling "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me". Then he said "Bye, I'm going to Evanston after work". He went out to lunch with Ketchmark co-workers to a Chinese restaurant; went to the bank and drove to Evanston to meet Joe for dinner and then to see a cinematographer speak at Northwestern. Afterwards he and Joe went to Burger King with Mark. Mom called him at 1:10 and said "Where are you?" He said he was in Evanston and said, "I'll see you in an hour".  He headed for home at 1:30 a.m., talking to Jenny on his cell phone.

April 9, 2004   2:35 a.m. Greg was hit by a drunk driver high on cocaine who ran the  red light as he had no brakes.  The intersection of Naperville Road and 75th Street is only 1 mile from home.
 Our dear son died instantly.               Our world has changed forever.