DARWIN is on his 12th year of teaching, currently at Springville High School teaching astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics. He also teaches physics at UVU for a 7 week STEM summer school program for junior high students. He also teaches teenagers in our church ward. He's super busy, but still makes time to be an awesome dad and husband.
Although I really wanted to go, we missed the Walk of Remembrance this year because it was at the same time as Aurora's opening day t-ball parade (t-ball post to come later). We opted to support Aurora in her extracurricular activities and hold our own memorial for Nastassia instead. We bought four yellow balloons after the parade and intended to release them that day, but it's been such a cold and raining spring that we had to wait a few days to release the balloons because it was raining so hard. By the time we were able to release them, two of the four balloons had lost their helium so we let the girls release the two balloons that were still good. Darwin trimmed the ribbons pretty short though to make sure they didn't have extra weight holding them down.
The girls with their Nastassia balloons.
There goes Rori's!
Savannah was more hesitant to release hers, but she finally let hers go too.
We watched the balloons float away in the sky until we couldn't see them anymore.
Running with Angels
On Saturday we had our Running with Angels 5k race. We were hoping for good weather, but it ended up being rainy again. We couldn't find the rain cover for our stroller--it's still packed away somewhere--but luckily it only sprinkled for most of the race. Towards the end it started raining harder, but we all had fun and enjoyed doing the race together. We walked the race this year because we have a new baby. Talmage is the only one who stayed completely warm and dry. Aurora walked most of it and only rode in the stroller a little bit. Savannah rode in the stroller for most of it. She was pretty cold by the end of the race!
Excited to be headed to the race! We had to wake them up early to get up there in time.
We walked past this bear statue towards the end of the race. Aurora made us stop and take a picture of her :)
We always look forward to seeing my friend, Lonny, at the end of the race. She's always there volunteering with her sister and it's always fun to visit with them for a minute. Thanks again for taking our picture, Lonny!
I'm so grateful we have these traditions to honor our sweet angel baby. We sure think of her often and our girls talk about her like she's always with us.
We miss you, Nastassia and look forward to being with you again some day!
There goes Rori's!
Savannah was more hesitant to release hers, but she finally let hers go too.
We watched the balloons float away in the sky until we couldn't see them anymore.
Running with Angels
On Saturday we had our Running with Angels 5k race. We were hoping for good weather, but it ended up being rainy again. We couldn't find the rain cover for our stroller--it's still packed away somewhere--but luckily it only sprinkled for most of the race. Towards the end it started raining harder, but we all had fun and enjoyed doing the race together. We walked the race this year because we have a new baby. Talmage is the only one who stayed completely warm and dry. Aurora walked most of it and only rode in the stroller a little bit. Savannah rode in the stroller for most of it. She was pretty cold by the end of the race!
Excited to be headed to the race! We had to wake them up early to get up there in time.
We walked past this bear statue towards the end of the race. Aurora made us stop and take a picture of her :)
We always look forward to seeing my friend, Lonny, at the end of the race. She's always there volunteering with her sister and it's always fun to visit with them for a minute. Thanks again for taking our picture, Lonny!
I'm so grateful we have these traditions to honor our sweet angel baby. We sure think of her often and our girls talk about her like she's always with us.
We miss you, Nastassia and look forward to being with you again some day!
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