Sarah

One of the most amazing people I have ever known passed away this month. We have been very good friends for about 4 yrs now. She died of cancer. She was/is amazing, and I learned so much from her. I hope my boys are old enough to remember her, and the wonderful feelings you always got when you were around her. Since we were together so much I have some great memories of the boys with her. I want to document just a few

Once we were driving in the car and Carter said that I was a good mom. I said yeah the best ever! He said, no not the best. I was like what the heck. Who is better than me. He says Sarah. I smiled in the mirror at him and said why is Sarah better than me? He said, "because she has really good food everytime we go over (she was the BEST cook I have ever known) and she is really nice and she has fun toys." I said, "ok, I'll have to take 2nd place to that." He just shook his head. It was so cute!

Right before Sarah found out she had cancer, she had a hip replacement and was down for a while. She has 6 kids and was needing some help. I had 4 boys 5 and younger still at home. I wanted to go help was unsure how much help I could really be for her. So, I made her dinner and loaded the kids up and thought, as long as they are good, I will stay and clean, when they are making more messes then I am cleaning, we will leave. As we are pulling out of the driveway I stopped and asked Carter to say a prayer that we will be good and helpful to Sarah. He says sure and starts, "Heavenly Father, please help Sarah to get better really fast so that my mom can stop making her dinner and cleaning her house so she can make our dinner and clean our house. Please help us to be good." We laughed and laughed about that. Carter has this "thing" that he has to have a clean house. He is a GREAT little helper, and will do anything to help things to be clean and tidy. A wonderful triat his wife will no doubt love and appreciate!

When Cael (her favorite of my kids) started getting to the age that he was pretending to talk on the phone he would walk around her house with phone up to ear all the time. She would say who are you talking to, and he would say, "Sarah". She would laugh and say you can't be talking to me I am right here, but he would just walk away talking a million miles a minute and fake laughing. I think he saw me "more than once" (ok about 5 times a day) talking to Sarah and laughing. When she would babysit him he would get some match box cars and sit on her top stair and play the entire time. He knew where to get them from and where to return them. Soo cute!

Every Priesthood Conference Session, we would do dinner together. We would get together and do waffles. Although, just waffles was not Sarah style. She would make this huge feast that we would all love! Fun times!!!

I could go on forever about all the great times that we had together. I am forever a better person because of her. My testimony is forever stronger. It will be a great day in heaven when I get to see her and hug her again! Thank you Sarah for making my life THAT much better!!!