Documenting life...: Sending balloons to James

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Sending balloons to James

Sunday was the 2 year anniversary of Michelle's little James's passing. It was so sweet to be there with her family at his graveside to let of balloons. Michelle is amazing! We're all sending you our love!

8 comments:

Michelle Arnett said...: Jen, I love love love the picture of Spence and Joe. It's sooo priceless. Thank you for taking the pictures and joining us in his remembrance-your practically family anyway. Much love to ya.; April 22, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Emily said...: Jen, I love the picture of Joe and Spencer watching the balloon. How do you do it? How do you capture the moment so perfectly?!? Loves to Michelle and her adorable family.; April 22, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Michele said...: Hi friend!
You are so wonderful. Oh ya, and I get to see you in a couple days!
Luv your BFF
Michele; April 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Jackie said...: I couldn't imagine losing a child. It brings tears to my eyes just reading the balloon. What a great friend you are to give so much support. Photos look great!; April 24, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Tanya said...: Beautiful photos Jen! reading the balloon made me cry!! this is a beautiful gift you've given to your friends!; April 24, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Sandy said...: What a beautiful moment you have captured for your friends. I can't even imagine the pain of letting go.; April 24, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Kendria said...: I would have to agree- now that I have a child, I could not imagine loosing him. What strength and courage that must take.; April 26, 2008 at 10:06 PM
chelle said...: I have lost three children, as you all know from my comment on the trail post, and it is difficult beyond words. You feel as if you are going to die, but you don't die. You keep breathing in and out all day long and you wonder why.

So I just died inside. It took me a long time to rebuild. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into years. And now I am a totally different person.

I feel I am so blessed to have had the time I did with my kids. They taught me so much and because of them I am a better mother, sister, child, wife, photographer, ward member, neighbor, friend, etc.

My love, prayers and support to you Michelle and your family. You will get through this. Moment by moment. Day by day. Heart beat by heart beat.

As the years slip away, you will see the blessings still coming to you for having known, held and loved little James. I am sorry to say that the pain has never gone away for me even though it has been over 15 years. But the pain makes me a better person. I have learned to live with it and love deeper because of the deep sadness.

Just my thoughts. Sorry to go on. Much love to you, Jen. You are so wonderful. Love you. Mechelle; April 28, 2008 at 4:05 PM

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Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.