Celebration of a Life

Heavenward they float

Messages of love in pink

for our Lily girl

At 5 p.m. on March 9th, if you looked up into the sky over the Salt Lake Valley, from Farmington to South Salt Lake, you may have seen a battalion of pink balloons released in honor of Lily's 3rd birthday.  The Mordue family and their ward released balloons in Farmington, while the John Henry Smith Insurance family released them in Bountiful and Salt Lake, and the extended Smith Family released them in South Salt Lake.  I'm pretty sure there were balloons sent up in the Arizona sky as well, from the Farr Family.  It was a special moment, followed by beautiful words from Lily's mom, Kim, and then we all helped plant a tree next to Lily's grave in Farmington...a flowering plum.

Half way there...

This morning when I stepped on the scale, I did a big Toyota jump.  I'm halfway to my goal weight.  Summer and swimsuits and running skirts...bring it on!

100

It started off as an idea germinating in my head after I saw what Madi gave Adam for Valentine's Day:  100 hearts filled with things that she loved about him.  Then I saw that my friend Alicia did a similar thing for her husband, and I know from what he told Steve that he absolutely loved it and was touched by the things she had written.  Could I come up with 100 things I loved about Steve?  I knew I could, but how do you put feelings and a sense of things into words.  I love Steve for so many reasons.  So on Friday, while at work, I started with one text:

Reason #1 of why I love you:  you work hard to provide for your family.

And throughout the day, I sent him another one and another one so that by the end of the day I had texted 100 reasons.  Some were funny, some were sexy, some were heart breaking reminders of carrying each other, some were sweet and tender.  I reminded him of things that he had forgotten, and of things that he thought I had forgotten.  Throughout the day, I pulled back the layers of time in my mind and revisited 26 years of time together.  It made me even more in love with him than I realized.  And so grateful that I am his and he is mine.