Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A Good Grief

To start off, last Thursday Darrin and I went to a benefit concert with my family that was hosted by "A Good Grief". If you've never heard of www.AGoodGrief.com, then you've got to check it out. My sister Heidi's good friend Molly is the founder of agoodgrief.com. She tragically lost her adorable 3 year old daughter in 2008 and has taken such a horrific event and blessed the lives of SO many families who have lost children. She now raises money to pay for headstones of those that loose their children. Please check out the website. So touching and so amazing what she has done!

The benefit concert she held was incredible! So many wonderful voices sang, including my FAVORITE-CHERIE CALL!!! If you've never heard of her check her out as well-she's a wonderful LDS musician and I just love the way she tells stories in her songs. Among other artists at the concert were Lea Cabrera (season 5 finalist in American Idol), Emily Dunn (Trisha in Napolion Dynamite), Nicole Riding, and many more! AMAZING!

My close friend Teresa, and my sweet sister in law, Kat, have recently lost their little babies. My heart aches for them and this cause has touched me being that it hits close to home. I think it's so wonderful what Molly has done and encourage all to read her story and others on her website. She truly has turned this trial into "a good grief".

This is totally on a different subject, but I had to also write about this-Parker got his first tooth!!! Finally! haha. He grabbed my finger to stick it into his mouth on Saturday and I thought, "Ouch!". Oh my goodness he has a tooth! Exciting for us, more milestones. He's also getting closer and closer to crawling-we've been working with him a lot on spending more time on his tummy (soon after we were enforcing "tummy time" in the first place he learned to turn over and has refused "tummy time" making it nearly impossible for him to learn/want to crawl!). So, he now does a kind of wiggle until he gets what he wants but a few times he has got up on his knees and kicked-so close! :)

Here are some recent pictures of Parker:
(on Friday Parker was just posing for the camara. haha. I couldn't stop taking pictures he was being so cute! And the result was this collage)