Today we celebrated your 15th birthday! It was a beautiful and sunny day. We enjoyed sharing some memories and having this time together. Shaylin was in Rexburg at school, but the rest of us were here.
I often wonder what you would be like...you would be 15 today. You would be blossoming into a beautiful young woman. I'm sure you would be singing your way through life like the rest of your siblings. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about you, my daughter Candace, the member of our family that people around me have never met and some don't even know that you exist. The invisible yet incredibly strong presence in our lives. I can't put it into words what it feels like to ALWAYS be missing someone in family photos, around the dinner table, on family vacations. Life never feels complete. I look forward to the day when life will feel whole and complete again. Happy Birthday sweet angel daughter of mine! A few days after your birthday we had a very monumental thing happen for our family. We were all in the temple together! The whole family! I felt you so near. I knew you were celebrating this day with us and for a few moments my family felt whole again.
