Tragedy

Friday I learned that one of my friends from High School lost a son on Monday. My friend Amanda called me in the morning and had asked me if I had talked to Mandy Lately. I said "not recently, why what's going on?" I could tell something was strange because she was talking in a soft quiet voice. She said "Mandy's son got hit by a car and I think he died." All I could say was "WHAT!?" She told me that her mom had found out but didn't know all the details. I was just freaked out!

I had just gotten back in touch with Mandy after so many years, the last time I saw her was when her daughter was about 18 months old and she is now 7. I got a letter from her one day, somehow she was able to find me by my married name. In the letter she told me she was living in Texas and had two other kids. I was so happy to hear from her! I replied to her letter and also sent her an E-mail to the address she gave me but I never got a response. Months past and I just wondered why she never replied then one day one of my cousins invited me to join Facebook. I didn't really know much about it but I did a search on people who went to the High School I went to and there she was. I immediately sent her a message and she finally replied. We were both really excited and we E-mailed back and forth, she was now living in New Mexico she said she didn't really like it there and that she had lived there once before. In the last message I sent her I gave her my number so that she could call me. That was September 3rd.

After Amanda called and told me about the tragedy....I just kept thinking about what she is going through. I was crying on and off at work, I just felt so horrible. I wanted to know when it happened so I did a search on the internet and I found his obituary....he was only 3 years old and he was going to be 4 this month. I cannot imagine what a nightmare it would be to lose a child, the mere thought of it brings me to tears.

I wanted to call Mandy but when I got home I realized that I didn't have her number. I tried to get a hold of my other friend so I could get the number from her but, nothing.

This morning the first thing that popped in my head was "Mandy is burying her child today." Even as I type I am trying to hold back tears....but it is not working.

I will try to get a hold of her on Monday....I don't know what to say but I do want to let her know that she has a friend to talk to and that even though I am so far away I will do my best to help her with whatever she needs.

Brenton "Monkey" Andrade
(October 28, 2004 - September 29, 2008)

Services are scheduled at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, October 4, at Trinity Temple Assembly of God for Brenton Jade Andrade of Artesia, New Mexico.

Brenton Andrade, 3, died Monday, September 29, 2008 at Artesia General Hospital Emergency Room.

Brenton was born October 28, 2004 in Roswell, N.M.

Survivors include his parents Andrew and MandyJo Andrade of the family home; sister Rakayla Andrade of Artesia; brother Dominic Andrade of Artesia.

Great Day!

It was just a normal boring Friday day at work, sitting staring at my computer not wanting to do the small tasks I had to do. Suddenly the mail delivery lady comes into my office (which never happens) and she asks me "Are you Lynda?" I said yes with a puzzled look on my face. She then hands me a long box and then I notice that on the box there is a picture of flowers. You guessed it.....I got ROSES! I was totally surprised!! They were beautiful! Why did I get roses you ask? Well according to the card that came with it "Just cuz XOXO - Todd" How sweet is that?! That made my day, in fact, it made my week.


I had to take as many angles as possible to show just how beautiful they are! I don't know how to arrange them so this is the best I could do.

Picture Day!

We had picture day on Sunday! My sister wants to get started in photography and I told her she should practice by doing our family pictures and she agreed to do it. We just did the three of us for now, we will have to do some with all of us another day. I had Elena's hair all cute but she got mad because she fell so she took it out on her cute hair so we had to just do something quick style. Also one of her eyes was irritated so you can tell in some of the pictures but overall I think they look pretty good.

This one is my favorite....I think.

Here we are trying not to laugh because Elena kept saying "nooo" every time my sister would count to three in Spanish to take the picture. We have no idea why she was doing it but it was so funny.


This is just cute!
Todd kept forgetting to take off his glasses...
This one is so cute too!
This one is one of the first ones, you can tell that we aren't really comfortable yet.
Same with this one.
I think this one is cute too.
I like Todd and Elena in this one.
Elena didn't really want to sit there too long.

She is one funny girl!
We still have to crop the pictures and all that good stuff. Then we will send some off to our families!

Coco

I thought I would post about Elena and her cocos (that is what we call her little injuries) she has had her falls and her bumps but she is pretty good at being tough about them. On occasion she has those that are just awful! We are glad that she hasn't had anything major! Here are a few pics of some injuries.

This one is her first scraped knee. She just wanted to run and run on the sidewalk and well.....she fell. She just whined a little but that was about it.

This one happened at Daycare. She was trying to be a big girl and walk down some steps, she stumbled and hit the floor with her face because she had something in each hand and so she couldn't catch herself.
Here her injuries are starting to scab over so they look much worse.
She healed quickly and now it is like nothing ever happened. Even with those scabs on her face she was still the cutest thing!