It all started last Saturday. Nicole was planning her 16th birthday party. I had a fun and memorable 16th and wanted the same for my daughter. Well Nicole's will be one she will never forget but not because it was so fun. Saturday morning we got a call that the night before Lindsay Sandstrom a 16 year old girl from our ward had been killed in a car accident and her Older sister was still in the hospital but expected to recover. Nicole and I immediately knew that we could not celebrate her birthday with this sad news in our ward so we changed the party plans invited all the young women over and started a scrapbook for the Sandstrom family. At 830 that night the High school had a memorial service so we took all our girls over to it. It was amazing and beautiful. I was surprised that they could put it together less than 24 hours after her death. I was able to see the family and Hug Connor Lindsay's brother that is one of my scouts.
Sunday the bishop presented Nicole as the newest member of the Laurel class and told the ward that Nicole was putting together a scrapbook for the family. All the Young women wore pink Lindsay's favorite color. Church was full of tears and they had a combined YM/YW third hour that ended with a huge hugging line.
Monday all the Young Women wore their Incredi Girl sweatshirts for Lindsey. It was the theme for camp this year. They told the girls the were incredible and needed to find the power within. This has become a symbol of Lindsay. The girls are all singing at the funeral and thought that they wanted to wear their sweatshirts. Courtney and I didn't think this was appropriate so we made pins for all the girls with the symbol. We made 65 pins with shrinky dink plastic. It was fun but by the end we were ready to finish.
Wednesday we were told to cancel all church activities but for some reason we decided to still have scouts we couldn't have it in the church so we decided the weather was so nice we had it at the pavilion. I was the first leader there and only 3 boys (17boys 3 leaders in all). Dallen before it started decided to jump some tables and missed and hit his mouth on a table and started bleeding very heavy. Another mother showed up and I left her in charge of the boys and took Dallen to instacare. he chipped 2 teeth has one permanent loose and scraped all the gums off the front top and has a gash in the inside of his lip. He was in shock and had blood all over. He can not bite anything for over a week and doesn't want to move his mouth. It didn't stop him from going to school today but his smile is gone because it hurts.
Wednesday night was Lindsay viewing. it started at 7pm so we showed up at 7:15. It was beautiful videos playing the hall lined up with scrapbooks to sign and pictures. I have never been in a line so long. It took over 2 hours to get the the family. The line went in the front doors across the overflow back through the gym and up the hall to the reliefsociety room.
The funeral is right now. I dropped the girls of early and the parking lot was full, cars were parked down the street. This was 45 minutes early. I decided not to go. I was going to be with my girls but they are singing and sitting on the stand so i would be taking the seat of someone who knew Lindsay. I am going to pick them up after and take them to lunch.
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