Many of you already know that Terry's mom passed away on March 22nd. We are very thankful that she had the chance to meet our sweet little Elise one time before she left us for a better place. We're told that in the weeks preceeding Elise's birth, that, she would ask her visitors daily if the baby had been born yet, so we are very thankful that Elise made her arrival 3 weeks and 1 day before she passed. In fact, we were both in the hospital at the same time, and about an hour after Elise's birth, Terry was able to wake his mom up with a camera full of pictures of the new baby! At the visitation, I was eyeing all of the beautiful flowers that people had sent and instantly had an idea, but wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do. One particular arrangement was comprised of tulips that had not yet opened up, but at the funeral, I noticed that they were fully opened and it got me thinking about new life. How some chapters close, but new ones are always opening, and how fortunate we were to have the new life of Elise to celebrate during the difficult time we were going to go through. After the funeral, we took one of the arrangements home with us and I took a bunch of photographs of Elise with some of the different flowers that were in it, so that we would have them in memory of her. So, we decided what to do with them. I put them together into a book for my father-in-law. We also thought it would be special for Elise to have these pictures when she gets older. Even though she only was able to meet her Grandma VanDerMeulen the one time, she will have the pictures of herself with the flowers forever.
Now that we've been able to give the book to my father-in-law, we can share them on here, too.
Here are a couple of our favorites, and the rest can be seen in the montage below.
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