Abbey's Amazing Artwork

Abbey loves to draw and to color. Here is some of her amazing artwork:
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Abbey and Ava, May 2011

This picture was taken of Abbey last week (three weeks before her 5th birthday).
 

She looks a lot like Sheri did at age 5.


This picture shows Ava (21 months).


She definitely looks a lot more like Eric:

Happy Mother's Day!

On this special day Abbey, Ava and I wish more than anything that we could celebrate Mother’s Day with Sheri. How nice it would be to give her hugs and kisses and tell her she is the best mommy/wife in the world! But for now we had to settle for watching home videos and talking about how awesome she is!

We got the idea to send a Mother’s Day balloon to Sheri in heaven. Abbey made a card that we tried to send with the balloon but the card proved to be too heavy to make the trip to heaven. So instead we wrote our names on the balloon so that Sheri would know who sent it.

This Mother’s Day I would also like to celebrate all of the great moms who have helped care for Abbey and Ava since Sheri left this life. Our lives have been blessed by the countless mothers who have selflessly loved Abbey and Ava. Here are just a couple of these amazing women. There are many more but I don’t have pictures or space for all of them.   

Happy Mother’s Day to Sheri and all of the other wonderful mothers out there!

Missoula Riverbank Run!

The Missoula Riverbank Run last Saturday marked the official beginning of the running season for the Klein family. We went into the race ready to kick some serious butt and would have done so if all the members of the family had cooperated. Ava decided she was tired halfway through the 10k and instead of going to sleep was more interested in making the run miserable for everyone else. After multiple stops trying to get her to stop crying the snow started to come down fast so we ran the rest of the race as fast as we could with Ava crying the whole way. I’m expecting to get my father of the year award any day now.

Here are my racing companions before the start of the race.

Abbey was going to run a 1-mile fun run afterwards but we were all ready to go home. We decided she will have to do one when it isn’t snowing.

Later on Saturday we played outside with bubbles. The wind was blowing and the bubbles were going high in the sky. Abbey said to me, “I’m sending bubbles up to my mom”. At first I was confused and then I
looked up and saw them floating up towards heaven.
 

We hope you liked the bubbles Sheri! We will try to send some more for Mother’s Day!

Easter!

Abbey, Ava and Eric had a fantastic Easter this year. Abbey and Ava got to go on two Easter egg hunts with friends.

 

Here they are before the hunt started.

 

Ava didn’t want to go in the street with the other kids.

 

Best friends showing off all the eggs they found. If you look closely you can see some of the jewelry the Easter Bunny brought Abbey. I’m pretty sure Sheri is not happy with that Easter Bunny!

 

It took Ava a little while to figure out what Easter was all about, but once she realized it was about candy there was no stopping her. She even resorted to stealing eggs from other kids.

Even though we were missing an important member of our family this Easter our faith in Jesus Christ lifted our heavy hearts with the knowledge that someday we will be reunited!