A short but beautiful recap of our wedding. It was all a dream. We were truly blessed by all of you.

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I don’t know why but today I felt the urge to share Hopes memorial video on this blog. I will write again on here one day. Just don’t know what to say yet. I miss writing though.    

a year has passed. Rather than hearing anything from me, I thought I would share this video of Hope.

Its been a couple months since i have posted anything here. Sorry. Life has been happening. “I want to show all of this to you, i want to share all of this with you, i just don’t know who you are or if you are even out there. This thought haunts me and scares me…

I currently feel like the flame of candle, easily lit, yet the slightest breeze or lack of air can put me out. I don’t want to be out, but often I am. I thought I was going to be able to write about my big trip to New York, Boston and Montana..About all the friends…

“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we…

I have received so much love from my family and community and even people i have never met. Below is an email i received a day before the adoption from my dear friend Aimee. I encourage you all to invest in people. The rewards are endless and it’s what we are built for.   “Thinking…