We love you Gig & Heidi!!

It is with somewhat of a very heavy heart that I write this post. Matt and I have 2 very good friends that we've come to love over the years as we've gotten to know them better. Matt and Gig work together at Sprinkler World and it is through their association that Heidi and I have also been able to become friends.

Gig and Heidi are one of those couples that are just really fun to be around. Gig is a total crack-up and the 2 of them together is just such a great combination. The picture above is of the 4 of us on our last night on the cruise we all went on with Sprinkler World 2 years ago. Matt and I spent almost the entire week with Gig and Heidi and had a blast running around everywhere with them!

Gig and Heidi have a little girl, Taylor, who is about 9 or 10 years old now and cute as she can be!! They would love to have more children and have been trying to get pregnant again for the last 6 or 7 years.....................with no luck. One day, about 4 or 5 months ago I guess, Matt called me from work to tell me that Gig and Heidi were pregnant finally!! We were so excited for them!! However, over the last 6 months or so Heidi has been very sick and has been having some complications. She expressed to me about a month ago that she had been having this terrible fear the entire pregnancy that she was going to lose the baby. She had had so much anxiety about it that it was adding to her sickness. By that point, though, she was finally feeling like she was getting over being so sick and feeling more like herself again. They've been so excited to have this new little addition in their family, and Heidi was about halfway to the end.

Matt called me a couple hours ago to tell me that they lost the baby this morning.

It breaks my heart because I know how much they wanted this baby and how much love they have in their hearts. I know how hard they've been trying to get pregnant for so long...........

Sometimes I get so frustrated about things like this. I know in my heart that there is a divine purpose in heaven for everything, and that nothing is an accident. But sometimes it's really hard to watch those who want children (us included) struggle SO MUCH to get there................and then to have to watch so many others who DON'T want children or aren't ready for them, to have no problems whatsoever in getting pregnant. There are so many mistreated, forgotten, unloved children in the world today..................why can't those of us who want and have the ability to be great, loving parents have the chance to take those children into their homes and raise them in good, loving families? Why does it sometimes have to be so hard?

I'm sorry to have gotten off on somewhat of an emotional tangent.........but it' s something that has weighed on my mind a lot in the last few years. Again, I know that there is a divine purpose and reason for everything, including our trials................but that doesn't always make it any easier when you're in the middle of going through that tough trial. Thanks for listening and for letting me vent for a few minutes.................

We love you Gig, Heidi, and Taylor!! You are in our thoughts and in our prayers!