Until We Meet Again.....

Merin, Mike, and baby Ysa

Mike and Merin

Merin and her mom Cheri

Merin and her older sister Eden

You are are both so loved and will be sorely missed

The last few days are a complete fog. I will have literal seconds when I'm doing something and I forget, then like a blow to the stomach, I am reminded that my sweet cousin Merin and her husband Mike are no longer here.

Friday night was a dark night for our family. My dad called around 10 o'clock and told me that Merin and Mike were involved in a fatal car accident on the way home from a wedding that the whole family had attended. He told me that Merin and Mike were pronounced dead upon arrival of the paramedics, and that their sweet baby 'Ysa' (7 weeks old) survived the crash. The sadness and emptiness is overwhelming.

Merin was a piece of heaven on this earth. Anyone who had the privilege of spending time with her, no doubt felt of her greatness. I can't picture her in my mind's eye without a smile. She never demanded center stage, yet ironically had it in many aspects of her life namely ballet. She was an accomplished ballerina who has spent time dancing in many areas of the world and has won numerous awards for her unique abilities. She danced at all of my married siblings weddings. Watching her dance was a perfect expression of who Merin is. Merin is grace, poise, polish, beauty in and out, softness, loveliness, and devotion.

She has left a beautiful legacy. One her daughter will be so proud of. Baby Ysa will spend her life on this earth in the arms of Merin's amazing sister Eden along with her husband Daylan and their children Deacon and Aubrie. This is certainly not the way I saw Merin's future unfold, but it is times like these that I am so grateful for the knowledge of our Savior in who has born all of our sorrows and knows us each by name. He knows Merin and Mike and they now will rest in his care......until we meet again.

I love you Merin

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