Best Family EVER!
Have you ever wondered who has the best family in the whole world?....well that would be my son Reggie. The moment that he was conceived everyone was super excited to meet him. When we went into labor everyone was ready to meet our awesome little guy and every member of our family had dreams of how they would teach him sports, play hide in go seek, have him come and visit their homes, exciting plans for his first football and holiday season... but the moment the texts and calls went out that something was wrong with Reggie, our family jumped into cars, onto planes and were at our sides within minutes and hours from different states and locations. When our whole entire world was crumbling around us, we were being surrounded by our great families who weren't just being sympathetic toward our situation, but they truly did love our son and were mourning with us. It meant so much that our entire family was able to be there for Reggie's funeral and get to see him. We were so proud of our handsome little guy (Matt was very proud that he was a big handsome boy, born with lots of hair on his head). it melted my heart that they all truly loved him sooo much and cared. it made me feel so proud to have our son be welcomed, loved and missed. he was welcomed and accepted into our family with our question and i even heard family members talk speak of ideas of how they can remember Reggie forever with wrist bands, rings and ideas for celebrating his memory as a family on his anniversary. Those first few days and weeks were such a drain physically while recovering from giving birth and a chaotic blur of emotions from his death that time was just going by... i remember being at a cemetery, a mortuary and then we were at a funeral. I have no idea how they did it, but i would not have been able to handle losing my son and dealing with all of those arrangements if it weren't for them. My entire world had stopped, crumbled but our families were there to take care of it all and they did, they took care of everything!! every detail, pictures all over the place, programs, cemeteries, obituaries, flowers, bracelets for everyone to have at the funeral.
I know that losing my son will always be a memory that hurts my heart and cause my heart to ache, but at the same time there are some memories of our families gathered together that i will always cherish. These memories are of us not really doing anything but of us being together. We were never alone and every morning and everyday we had our family there to just be with us. We talked, watched movies and ate lots of food. Those are the very sweet memories that i will cherish for the rest of my life because even though i lost my son in a shocking and tragic way, i realized something very important... that i belonged to and was LOVED by an AMAZING family. Thank you guys for EVERYTHING that you did for us (big, small, things we noticed and especially stuff we may not have) thank you so much!! We love you all sooo much!!
Thank you Reggie for bringing us all together and for showing us how amazingly great and united our family truly is. We learned that every member of our family has a special place and purpose in our family and we wouldn't be the same with out any of them. That is why Reggie will be missed so incredibly much buy each member of our family because the hole that was created in our hearts and family will only be able to be filled by him when we are all together forever with our Father in Heaven I feel so blessed and thankful to have a Heavenly Father that loves us so much to bless us with his gospel on the earth again and a knowledge of my savior's infinite atonement. Being able to see and be with my son Reggie again is possible because of the atonement of our savior Jesus Christ.... Thank you for your love and sacrifice!
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