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We’re still holding on between the heavens and the Embers ❤️‍🔥

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Life lately🍓❤️‍🩹healing and hurting. joy and pain. love and loss.

2026 has really been a year. I was just telling a friend I can’t wait for this year to be over but in the same breath I don’t want it to end.

It feels like a betrayal to Ember, leaving her behind somehow. The last year with her. It can’t really be over can it?

I feel like I’m just done you know? Done feeling so sad and done missing her.

It feels so incredibly daunting to have to miss her for the rest of my life. Like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. There’s no “get thru this hard season” and then you get a break. It’s forever, so final.

She was so young, and we are so young to have to live with this pain forever.

But what do you do? Just keeping moving. So we do. and we enjoy every. single. moment.

#remEMBER #embersglow

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A constant reminder of where I can find her
A light that might give up the way
Is all that I’m asking for
Without her I’m lost
Oh my love, don’t fade away

#embersglow #remEMBER

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You’ll always be my baby.

#embersglow #remEMBER

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The apple of our eye. Our little girl. ❤️🧡💛

#remEMBER #embersglow

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Sharing the places that we left a bit of Ember's Glow this summer bc the Cuens have been on my mind all week with it being back to school time. I wore my ribbon for Ember on the first day, she'll always be a part of Vern Patrick! ❤️‍🔥 #EmbersGlow

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So proud of this girl! 🤟🏼 Yesterday was a really, really hard day for our family. Walking into school without Ember was something none of us were ready for, but we are no strangers to hard days.

I tell Kori this often: Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. It means you do the hard thing even when you are. And yesterday she was scared, she was sad, and she was incredibly brave. ❤️🧡💛

Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by to check on us, sent flowers, food and coffee, wore Ember gear or strawberries, and hugged on us yesterday. Having our community surround us made an incredibly hard day just a little bit easier.

We are so blessed with such an amazing school. As we walked the halls, we saw so many memories of Ember and artwork dedicated to her, which made our hearts hurt and smile all at the same time🍓🌈

Kori got the sweetest teacher this year, and we already know it’s going to be a great year for her. We know her sister was holding her hand in spirit and day🪽

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Not ok 💔 #embersglow

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Have you ever woken up with a song in your head the instant your eyes open?

Several days last week, this song was just BLASTING in my head from the moment I woke up. Pretty random, right?
And yet… nothing is random.

So I leaned into it. I really listened to the lyrics, and it felt like such a clear message from Ember. To keep going, things can only get better. Keep fighting. Keep L-I-V-I-N ❤️

August 23rd marked three months without you my angel baby.

The longest three months of my life, and somehow, at the same time, three months filled with so many beautiful, incredible moments and opportunities.

My heart is cracked wide open.

I was telling a friend the other day that it almost feels like I’m on mushrooms. 🤣 Everything is more beautiful. Everything is brighter. The ordinary moments don’t feel ordinary anymore. I’m more sensitive, more present, more easily amazed.

And honestly I really love it.

What a privilege it is to see the beauty in things I used to take for granted. To stop and really notice the sunset. A song. My feet in the grass. The dogs playing. A hummingbird visit. The little moments that used to pass by without any meaning.

I read this quote in a grief book by Khalil Gibran: “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

So listen to the signs. Pay attention to the little things that feel like more than coincidence.
Our loved ones and our guides work really hard to communicate with us thru these wonderful signs.
And those messages are so incredibly special. ❤️🧡💛

I love you, Ember. Forever. #embersglow

🎶Don’t wish it away
Don’t look at it like it’s forever
Between you and me I could honestly say
That things can only get better

And while I’m away
Dust out the demons inside
And it won’t be long before you and me run
To the place in our hearts where we hide

Wait on me girl!
Cry in the night if it helps
But more than ever
I simply love you, more than I love life itself 🎶

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It’s about taking a zoomed-out, long, hard look at your life and asking yourself: Am I truly happy?

I had a conversation with a good friend and mentor yesterday that really got me thinking about what success actually means to me, and whether the life I’m building is truly the life I want. Given our recent life changing trauma this has been on my mind a lot.

I spent a long time chasing success. A big part of who I am has always been wanting to be “successful,” but I’ve had to ask myself lately… what does that even mean?

A bigger house? A couple of cars? All the vacations I could ever want?

Success means something very different to me now.

It’s choosing the right partner. Having aligned goals. Having boundaries. Refusing to let myself down just to spare someone else’s feelings.

It’s listening to my intuition and trusting my gut instead of constantly talking myself out of what I already know.

It’s reinventing myself and my career at any age. It’s being a mother. It’s raising a daughter who is emotional, connected to nature, and able to see beauty in everything around her.

It’s being vulnerable and not apologizing when I cry.

It’s having the courage to change my mind, change my direction, take the risk, and become someone I’m proud of.

If I’m able to do any of those things, I am incredibly successful.

So maybe take a zoomed-out look at your own life.

Are you truly happy? Are you living your one life to its fullest potential?

Are you taking the risks you keep telling yourself you’ll take someday? What regrets would you have if you lost it all tomorrow?

And I’d rather build a life that actually feels like mine than spend it chasing someone else’s definition of success. #embersglow

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You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be and I don’t want to go home right now. #embersglow

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Life lately. Tending to our hearts and just putting one foot in front of the other ❤️🧡💛 #embersglow

Downtown Redmond, Fourth of July parade 🇺🇸

Kori lit our big Ember firework, the best of the night ❤️🤍💙

A picture that’s worth 1000 words😭😭😭😭

I cried watching her face watch the Bend Elks firework show🥹

Good friends to sit in silence with 🥰

Always picking wildflowers for our girl and thankful she still likes to match with mom

Our little voyager 🫶🏼

Small town living 🇺🇸

Showing the girls the classics! Something about the movies you grew up watching makes you feel safe and at home ❤️

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