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Love you forever Dad: Edwin Martell Montgomery 3.2.1933 - 9.20.2022

Where do I begin? Saturday mornings waking up early to be with him while he made his weekly pancakes for us?  How he cut them in a grid for me? Or my adult days with him.  Or do I  go back to the day I showed up to the hospital? Where he held my hand tight when we were alone. Where he told me he loved me and asked me to hold on to him. Do I start there? Because all I want to do is rewind and pull him back to hear his laugh, his voice.   I keep reliving those last moments with him right now. I hope that's normal grieving:) The day after Christmas 1973 My mom told me she would throw a big Christmas party for all their young couple friends and serve a variety of Mexican food. One year she told my Dad she couldn't because she was very very pregnant with Leslie.  He wasn't quite grasping why she wasn't up to it ...haha  (she gave birth to Leslie on January 7th btw) She told me he got tears of disappointment in his eyes when she said she just couldn't do it. My Dad loved

New phase: Lucy turns 2 0 !

She is now 20! I love her to death. She is such a good missionary. So busy. So enthralled by the work. I realized she will spend almost her entire 20th year in Portugal :) I think that sounds pretty cool. Here she is: eating churros after Claudia's baptism!  working hard on the streets but still shining:) 20 never looked so wonderful!  

YW Camp: Audrey's final chapter!

I had the opportunity to be at our combined stake YW Camp 3 hours north,  located in the beautiful coastal  redwoods with Audrey.  It was amazing! Audrey was a YCL this year.  I just had the thought how fitting it is that I went to camp with Lucy for her first year and went with Audrey for her last year.  I feel lucky! ( above, she hosted skit night with Abby and then beat us all in the minute to win it Oreo face challenge) Audrey's friend Ella (above) lives in the city and they met about a year ago at another combined activity (since our stakes are so small in youth numbers!) They were pretty much inseperable all week :) Audrey and London Born a few weeks apart, her mom and me were pregnant at the same time! It's good and so rewarding to be back and have the privilege to  see these kids grow up:) some ycl's Eva, Audrey, London, Ella, Isa, Princess :) Her inner Boulder was ignited at camp:) She also said she didn't get the memo about packing cute clothes as she just bro