An Amazing Celebration!

The day was perfect for Gabi and there are so many people we would like to thank for that. I'm sure I'll miss someone and if I do, just know if you were a part of the celebration of Gabi's life we love and thank you for it. This could end up pretty long so prepare yourself!

Benji who is a personal friend of ours was also the funeral director. She was amazing in all she helped with and how she set up the flowers and Gabi's pictures. We are so glad that we had someone we knew to help us through that part of the most difficult time in our lives. It is almost indescribable how beautiful the arrangements were.

We defnitely want to mention Sara our photographer. We took some amazing photos when Gabi was 3 months. We kept putting off ordering them and we called Sara on Monday and she worked her magic. We cannot thank you enough Sara, you are an incredible person, and a fantastic photographer. Visit her site www.saratafoya.com

Without all of you that sent flowers though there would of been nothing for her to arrange. All the flowers that were sent were so beautiful and very much appreciated. We would like to send out a very special thank you to our Trisomy 21 community that sent the three vases with the 21 tulips in each along with the "Welcome to Holland" Story. With that, we would also like to thank the Esteban family for coming and introducing themselves. As they were a family that was drawn to Gabi's story from this blog, and came to pay their respects.

We want to thank everyone that attended the service as we hope you found it as beautiful as we did. A special thank you to Matt and Megan Gudde who are the parents of Isabella that has been so frequently mentioned in our Blog. Them along with a few of Gabi's nurses made it to the service which meant the world to us. By the way Bella is doing better but continues to need our prayers. That little girl has a lot of fight left and we can only hope that Gabi is now helping her with that fight.

Our Church....wow...where to even start here. Our little church is so amazing it takes my breathe away every time I think of all they have done. First, Mr. Cain did a great job with conducting the service. Our Church family also provided the lunch after the service which was enough food to feed about 300 to 400 people...no joke! We had so much food left over Dorothy made the suggestion that we auction off pies for "Gifts of Gabi's Grace." Oh and what an amazing idea that turned out to be. Auctioner Freddie ended up raising a little over $500 for the fund just by auctioning off pies. That just goes to show how incredible our friends and our church family is.

Our Family. This is one that takes more words than I have in my vocabulary. My brother said it best when he spoke at Gabi's service by saying "We are now closer with our in-laws than most familys ever have the pleasure of being." All of our families have come together to support us and each other in so many different ways, that there is no way I can list them all. It makes Micah and I feel so blessed because there are so many people that don't have families like we do, so thank you to our families.

To my brother...he has taught me so many things as my older brother. Some better than others but overall he has been amazing throughout all the trials of my life. Yesterday my brother showed me why I respect him so much as a man. He found the strength to get up and speak very elequently during a very difficult time out of love for me, my wife, and Gabi. I love you Freddie...thank you for being such an amazing brother.

To our friend Mike and Tami who found the strength to stand and read poems for us because the people that wrote them or found them knew they wouldn't be able to get through the words. We love you both for accepting the challenge and doing such a wonderful job.

Again to all of our friends and family we love and appreciate all of you. As I said on Saturday I plan on fighting every day to make sure that Gabi's influence is not gone in 6 weeks. I want everyone that has been touched by her and learned to be so much more appreciative of life, love, family, and our children to continue to remember Gabi's impact forever! Stick with us on the blog for continued updates on the foundation and how we will be trying to continue to spread Gabi's Love!

Love,
Jason, Micah, Gracie, and Gabi (Our Pink and Squishy Angel Above)