Dance Festival

Elisabeth and Rebekah were awesome at the dance festival today. The weather was perfect too! It was extra fun for me now that I know more of the students. The first graders whom I have worked with the past couple months did really well on their dance too. Roy was planning to be there, but then his work schedule got changed and he had to miss it. But Roy's parents and my mom came to watch. I even participated in the teachers' dance, which was embarrassing but fun.


Bekah's Dance:

Lissa's Dance:

Canary Garden Balloon Launch

Tonight we went to the Canary Garden annual ballon launch. Canary Garden is a bereavement support group that we attended for a while after Samuel died. It is designed for children, but it helps the parents too. I wish we had kept attending. I need to see if we can possibly get back in because it would be good for the kids especially.

This is how Mount Timanogos looked tonight. It was a gorgeous evening.

We wrote notes to Samuel and tied them to the balloons. Bekah's said,

Dear Sammy,
I love you. When are you going to come back? I miss you. I want
you to come back.

:( Tugs at the heart strings big time!

Oops...Elisabeth let go too soon. :)

Then Bekah's wouldn't float, so we had to get another balloon. Hers went up all by itself but caught up to the others pretty quickly.

It's interesting how such a simple thing can mean so much to me sometimes. I sure do miss my sweet little guy.

Merry May 24th!

It's not really that unusual for Utah in the Spring, but we still complain about it every year like it's the first time it's ever happened. :)

Time to Water the Plants

I have this plant that we got when Samuel died, and it has this way of reminding me that I haven't watered my plants for a while...

Time to water the plants:



3 hours later:



I will be so mad at myself if I kill this plant or any of the plants from the funeral. They make me happy when I look at them (at least when they are watered and looking healthy). I probably need to start repotting some of them, but I am scared to.

Beautiful Elisabeth

Elisabeth went to a friend's "Oscar Night" birthday party last weekend, and I thought she looked beautiful!

Our new alarm clock...I mean neighbor

This is what I woke up to this morning. I've never actually seen a real live woodpecker, so it was sort of fun. I have heard him for the past few days, but today he was especially close (and annoying). I had to get up and close the window. (Sorry the video and photo quality are not that great. I was shaky for some reason.)

The SAM Project 2010

The first annual The SAM Project was a huge success!!! Thank you to everyone who participated.In memory of our sweet little Sam. (7 months old in the picture.) We love and miss you so much! We are thankful to be another year closer to together forever!

This is the label we sewed onto all of the blankets.122 blankets delivered to Primary Children's Medical Center on March 26, 2010.

About 20 more blankets will be delivered later (they are still in the works).The boxes we used to organize the blankets.Organized by type.

The cart used to take them from the car to the lobby.

Our family.

Primary Children's Medical Center motto.

The "thank you" card they gave us when we dropped off the blankets. I love this quote.
Rebekah and Elisabeth by Samuel's grave.
Samuel's grave.

We look forward to next year and expect it will be even better! :)

(One of these days I will get the official "thank you's" out to everyone.)