On Jan 24th our healthy baby girl, Savannah was born. She was absolutely perfect.
Our family was complete, everything we ever wanted. Two beautiful and healthy kids.

On the night of Tuesday May 7th we gave our sweet Savannah dozens of kisses good night like we did every night. Holding and squeezing her cute little body before we put her in bed. She gave us her signature big smile as she looked at us peacefully and happily. We had no idea that it would be the last time we would hold and kiss our little girl. But the next morning Savannah was really gone; she had passed away silently and completely unexpectedly in the night. 

On her 3 month birthday, when Tatiana asked our son, Levi, to sing Happy Birthday to Savannah he insisted on a different song first. 

“Jesus loves me, this I know, For the bible tells me so, Little ones to him belong, They are weak but he is strong.”

God knew that this is the message we needed to get deep into our hearts  How grateful we are to our God for this message. For this truth and for allowing us to capture this moment. Savannah was so little and weak, but he is strong and he has her in his arms now. She belongs to him. He loves us and our pain is not bigger than that love.

God continued to give us a perspective and comfort. Over the past decade we have helped out with a ministry in Mexico that helps orphans called Genesis. A place that accepts kids that are abandoned and rejected and in some cases left for dead. About 5 years ago we helped put on a camp for a group of 30 orphaned little boys and girls. It was one of the best weeks of their painful lives. When the week was over and it was time to go back to their orphanage we all gathered around in a giant circle and prayed. As we wrapped up and it was time for the kids to go many of them started crying and saying they didn’t want to go; that they wanted to stay longer. And my heart broke for them. Then the leader of the Genesis organization got everyone’s attention and he explained to all of the kids that life has different seasons. That some seasons are filled with happiness and joy and others with sorrow; but that God can use them all to make us better people. We were so impressed with how the kids really listened and took what he had to say. Little did we know that God was teaching us a lesson. We are not to look back on the incredibly happy season of our life with Savannah as something to be sad about. Instead, we should use that energy to remember the good times and be filled with the happiness we had together.