Ethan and Dylan

Well we went up to Snowflake to celebrate Ethan and Dylan's second birthday, attend the temple, and visit them. This year was easier in some ways than last year, yet this day will always be a bittersweet day for our family. We feel so blessed to have Ethan and Dylan, two valiant little spirits as members of this family and feel peace that they have fulfilled their earthly mission. However, we do long for the day that they will be placed in our arms again and we can kiss their sweet cheeks and hear their little cries. We decorated their graves with some little valentine's decorations and we are amazed at how much Hunter understands about Ethan and Dylan for only being three years old. He told us that "Ethan and Dylan are with Heavenly Father and then they are going to come back and play with me." Our hope is that through the experience of having Ethan and Dylan come into our lives that we all may have a greater understanding of Heavenly Father's plan and thank him everyday for the blessing of eternal families.
“The mother and father who laid down their little children, being deprived of the privilege, the joy, and the satisfaction of bringing them up to manhood or womanhood in this world, would, after the resurrection, have all the joy, satisfaction and pleasure, and even more than it would have been possible to have had in mortality, in seeing their children grow to the full measure of the stature of their spirits.” This is as the balm of Gilead to those who grieve, to those who have loved and lost precious children.
- President Thomas S. Monson

Happy Birthday Ethan and Dylan, we love you...