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.
We don't really celebrate Nastassia's "birth" day because she didn't survive the pregnancy, but every year on April 7th we celebrate "Nastassia Day" to remember our tiny little angel.
This year the girls were very excited to celebrate Nastassia Day. I don't think they really understand what it means to have a sister who lives in heaven, but Aurora is starting to understand more and ask more questions about her. She knows that Nastassia was in my tummy after she was and that she died because she had a broken heart (that's what Aurora calls it since we told her that Nastassia's heart didn't grow right), and that she lives with Heavenly Father now.
It probably doesn't show on the outside, but not a day goes by that I don't think of Nastassia still. She is still very much a part of our family and we look forward to being with her in the eternities some day.
As part of our celebration this year, we wanted to take the girls to the temple because that's where we become forever families. The temple is such a special, sacred place and I love to be there. I love the peace I feel even just being on the grounds. I'm grateful that our girls are learning to love the temple at an early age and I hope they choose to live worthy to be able to go inside someday.
Darwin's parents gave us a beautiful bouquet of yellow daffodils right after we lost Nastassia, so anytime I see yellow, and especially yellow daffodils, I think of her. We all wore yellow that day in her honor.
Our family at the temple. The yellow tulip was meant to represent Nastassia.
Our family at the temple. The yellow tulip was meant to represent Nastassia.
We had a picnic on the grass just west of the temple and then took the girls to a playground for a little while before heading home. They thought it was pretty awesome that Daddy let them play in the kitchen sink for a long time after they helped him make brownies (instead of a birthday cake) as part of our Nastassia Day celebration :)
Darwin always gets a beautiful bouquet of yellow flowers for us on Nastassia Day. It means so much to me that he makes this small, but huge, gesture to remember our angel baby.
We love you, Nastassia! And we always will!
Happy Nastassia Day!
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