Alice in Wonderland

The Mckinley school play. Taylee & Austin wanted to be in it this year. They have had practices twice a week for a few months now. I was very proud of them. They did a great job!

Taylee is Alice's cat, Dinah.
Austin is the King of Hearts.

Austin with the Queen of Hearts (Mariah).

Taylee with Alice

The main cast of Alice in Wonderland. Darling kids!!!

My three cute kids!! Oh how I love them!

End of another Year!

Another banquet, where does the time go? We had an awesome year this year. The best yet. I think I learn more and more every year. What to fix for the next year and what NOT to do the next year. These ladies are very special to me. Thanks for the memories & friendship this year. I am truly going to miss my seniors. Those 5 girls are so dang fun to be with!! Thank goodness for facebook and the internet to keep in touch!

Back row: Kaitlin, Jamie, Monica, Kelsee, Haley, Shayden, Charity, Sarah, Me, & Kristy
Front Row: Carrie, Nicole, Kelsey, Abby, Ky, & Shelbie

Reagan's Funeral

Reagan Lillie Crook, Born July 26th, 2006 - passed away April 11th, 2009


Making a trip to "Wyoming in the snow storm we just had, was exciting, but we made it. We headed out Wednesday afternoon and got there in time to go to the end of the viewing that night. This was the first time my kids saw her and came to the reality of all this. I think I started crying first, memories came back as soon as I saw her laying there. Chris was next to follow with tears, then Austin. Wow, he had a hard time. He loved her so much & he is actually old enough to understand more than my other kids. There was this lady there at the viewing, who had downs syndrome and saw him crying. She came up to him and hugged him and talked to him. It was really cute. After she left, I asked him if he knew she was like Reagan, and he knew, i think somehow that made it better.
We went to Michelle & Shane's house for dinner. We had never been to their house before. They built it a few years ago. Very cute. Chris's parents up us up in a "log Cabin motel" for the night, thanks!


The cabins were very cute and fun.

The funeral was tear jerking, like expected. My children were asked to sing "I am a Child of God" with their cousins. They did a great job. I know that was very hard for them to do.

The cemetary was covered in snow still, so this is not where she is actually being buried, her spot is still covered in snow. This was the most cleared off space there.

This is Devin, Reagan's big brother. He is 4 years old, pall bearer, how cute is he?

This is Ellie, Reagan's sister, she is 6 years old, and Michelle, Reagan's mom.

The dinner provided by their ward was wonderful. The girls were inceperable these last 2 days. Oh I wish we lived closer. They wanted to show off their big pieces of cake!

Thank you all for you love and concern for our families loss. She ment a lot to us.

Our Angel

Reagan passed away yesterday morning. Chris & I were on our way to Salt Lake to see her that morning & she left us before we got there. We went there any ways and saw Shane & Michelle & Reagan. They had just finished giving her a bath, her hair was wet and she looked like an angel. Words can't express the feeling we felt there, I gave her tons on kisses and wept. We watched Michelle and the nurse make her hand and foot prints on cards for memorabilia.
She will always be in our heart. Until we meet again little Reaggie......

The funeral is Thursday in Star Valley, Wyoming

Prayers for Reagan

This is my sweet niece, Reagan. She is Chris's sister, Michelle's daughter. She is very special to our family. She was born early with a hole in her heart and also with Downs syndrome. She will be 3 years old in July. Doesn't her face want to make you smile!

Reagan is now at the Primary Childrens Hospital in a coma. She had a 2 inch tumor in her brain which made her non responsive and shifted her brain over to which she had a stroke and is now on a ventalator and in a coma.
Oh how my heart aches, to know that this precious child is going through all these trials in her young life. She must of been one of the most special spirits up in heaven that needed to come down for a body and touch peoples hearts. She has definatly touched mine!

It is so hard for our whole family to go through this waiting period of what is to happen next. We all know that this is in our Heavenly Father's hands now. We know that what will happen is for the best of Reagan, but it is so hard to think that it might be in the negative. We all have hope of everything turning out for the best, but when the doctors are thinking "grim", and "grave", it is hard to keep up hope. We will all think of better "gr" words, like Groovy, Great,& Grand.

My kids have a hard time talking about it. They ask daily if there is any news about her. I know they love her and are keeping her in their heart.

Primary Children has a web site that is updated about Reagan daily.

it is /www.carepages.com/carepages/Cucumber/updates

We love you Reaggie!