kamber: 4 Months

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

4 Months

Today is 4 months since the day Kamber returned to her Heavenly Father. Four months since Kamber grew up much faster than the rest of us. Four months since I held my little girl only moments after she left this family that loves her so very much and 4 months of her lifting up others and impacting people lives all over the country for the better. What a wonderful and full life she had in her short 2 1/2 years. She had the love of three sisters, mom and dad, grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, cousins and friends. We did a lot of fun things as a family in her 2 1/2 years and she helped to make each memory so fun. Today I am grateful not so much sad, but grateful to have had her for that long. Four months is a long time to not have her physically here but I am grateful to have had her spiritually here with us for that long! Her presence is felt and what a blessing that is for our family.
Today is Kamber's buddy/ cousins birthday. Shariden Happy Birthday! Shariden is three today and only 3 months older than Kamber. I wondered how I would feel when this day would come and I am glad that I am okay with it, I am happy for Shariden!

2 comments:

The McNeil Family said...: Happy Birthday Sheridan..; November 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM
janalee said...: I think your Kamber tree is a sweet way to remember her this Christmas :); November 25, 2008 at 4:16 PM

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It was July 25th 2008 and it was a great day. All the kids were getting along with eachother. Ethan and I were going on vacation with a few friends and we were to leave at 5:00p.m. that evening. At about 11:00 a.m. I started packing for the trip. I caught Kamber out back playing with the hose with her cousin a couple of times. The last time Ethan and I went out back to get after the girls for playing in the hose. Ethan sprayed the girls and we chased them all back inside. Ethan went into his office and I went back into our room to pack. It was a short time after this that Kamber some how made it into the pool area. We can't figure out how it happened, we have a gate around our pool shut and locked. Nobody had been in the pool area in days. We lost site of Kamber for a few minutes but this was enough time for her to fall in the spa part of our pool and drowned. I had gone into Ethans office and said something to him and turned around to find my niece crying. I knew. I ran straight to the pool and didn't see her and then caught a glimps of her leg in the spa. It took forever to get the pool fence open , but I ran as fast as I could and pulled her out. Ethan ran in and started CPR, I called 911. The Fire Depatment came fast. They worked on her and then headed to the hospital. We already knew she was gone. I could feel her comforting arms around me. We raced to the hospital where we watched them work on her for about 10 more minutes. She was gone. They let me hold her for about 2 hrs till the medical examiner came to get her. I felt a small amount of peace and I thank my Heavenly Father for that. It was her time to return home. We are grateful for the 2 1/2 years Heavenly Father let us enjoy the beautiful person she is. We will be with her again as a family and I can't wait to raise her again. Her sisters miss her dearly, but they know she not far away and she is safe. We love our valiant angel!