we'll always have Easter...

Easter weekend last year, was not only the last Holiday I spent with Mom and Dad........it was the very last weekend that I saw their smiling faces. 

The Close Family hosted Easter and my parents gladly came over to all be together. She walked in with homemade Easter basket cupcakes, flowers for Cindy and Dad brought Pierogis. 

Dad settled downstairs with the boys while the girls drank wine and chatted in the kitchen. 

Mom looked beautiful. They had just gotten back from FL so she was tan and her hair was lighter then normal. It's amazing only three weeks later, seeing her in the casket, how terrible she looked. But that wasn't her anymore. Her spirit was gone. She looked so old and as you can see in these pictures, my Mom was a young 50 year old lady. 

After celebrating Easter with the Close's on a Saturday, I went to my parents house that very next day to bring lunch over to my Grandpa's house. We all met over there and had lunch together. I never in a million years thought that would be the last time I would spend time with them. I wish I would have known. I'd give anything for that day again. 

This week has been rough but for a lot of us, but the sadness is and will always be there. It's the way they died that makes this impossible to move on from. And, it was both of our parents and our own brother. Last year this time I was walking around like a zombie, picking out my parents caskets and trying to plan a funeral after the worst tragedy imaginable. It was insane. 

But I am happy as this Saturday I will be celebrating Easter with my family, which falls on the day of their funeral last year. My Aunt and Uncle from Atlanta are coming in. My Sister and Aydan are coming- as well as my cousin and her husband. I am thrilled to have them all here and have a nice dinner together in honor of my parents. 

Mom and Dad, Easter will forever remain special in our hearts and we will hold those memories close to us when we last saw your beautiful and smiling faces. You had so much more life to live.......you will be missed this weekend.......and every day after......

Happy Easter everyone, 

Melissa