Pink for Ella on Mother's Day
The couple in the center of the above picture is our Bishop and his wife, Pame. On the 16th of every month since the accident, she has made it a point to let Dacia know that she remembers Ella. Some months it was a beautifully touching email and some months she brought brightly colored flowers. Every month it was something special.
This week will be one year since the accident and the McHugh family really surprised us this time. As we walked into church today, EVERY man and boy had a pink tie and EVERY woman and girl had a pink bow. Looking out on the congregation, it was overwhelming to see the entire congregation of 160 or so "remembering Ella". Her two best friends in the above picture wore the pinkest clothes they had. Also impressive was that all of the girls' bows were handmade! It is very easy to feel the love of our Savior when we are surrounded by such good people.
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| This was taken prior to Priesthood meetings. |
Then we found that they also contacted family and friends in Washington and we were further surprised to have these pics trickle in all Sunday.
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| Mom & Dad Shumate |
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| Mom & Dad Call |
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| Ella's best friend, Mia and her brother, Tucker. |
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| Devin's brother Matt and his family in Spokane, WA. |
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| Dacia's brother Jacob and his family in Florida. |
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| Jacob's entire family in Florida got in on the fun! |
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| Devin's brother Travis and his family in Tacoma, WA. |
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| Dacia's sister, Dani and her family in Hawaii. |
And more of our friends from both the east and west coasts:
6 comments:
I love that you posted all the pictures here. It was fun to do the pictures and then so exciting to see everyone else that participated. What a powerful message of support from your ward and priesthood group. You are soooo loved.
And Jacob's picture made me laugh out loud--oh, to be young again!
Love you sister and have a great week.
That is amazing! Sorry we weren't there to join in the fun. We were visiting Jacob's family and didn't get the memo. But we still love you guys. Thinking of you all this week.
Awesome. I'm gonna search through my pix and change my profile pic on the Ami Ana fb page to something pink in honour of Ella today - after all, we are a day ahead here in NZ. It is the 16th already.
Thinking of you guys.
wow- what an amazing ward family, i miss you all! this brought me to tears when i read it then again when i shared it with matt. thanks for sharing and being such great and strong people.
Wow - that is so touching. What an amazing display of support. Your family is so loved! I think about you guys often...
haha....I love Kellye's comment...just because I did the same thing!! We all sported our pink for Ella too...she sure is one loved girl! (and loved family!)
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