Happy 11/11/11 AGAIN!!

We're still working to make wishes come true! We've got the book back up on the Blurb website. Plus, we've added two new ones and two more are on on their way. (Check back frequently between now and Christmas for "Through an Artist's Eyes {Lauren's art book} and "I Udder-ly Love Moo!" {Lauren's Children's book}.) We too, were disappointed in the final price and are glad to be able to offer alternatives.

Each of the books are fully accessible to read on-line with no charge. Just enlarge it in your browser and soak it all in. If you would like to donate to her foundation, just send a donation to:
Living Lauren's Legacy Foundation
P.O. Box 9043 SLC, Utah 84109

loveandlaughtereveryday@gmail.com

Click on the title for a full book preview and purchase information:

"Happily Ever After: The Power of Perspective"
This one is a full color 8X10 book with the story and photos of her life. 180 pages.
$5.00 from each book goes to her Foundation.

"Happily Ever After: The Power of Perspective" text only
Black and White (with photos on chapter pages) 6X9. 111 pages.
$5.00 from each book goes to her Foundation

"A Pocketful of Perspective"
Color pocket book (5X8) 40 pages
11 pieces of 11 qualities of Lauren's happily ever after perspective.
$5.00 from each book goes to her Foundation

All are now available through Blurb.com. Each book is also offered as an e-book for I-phone's and I-pad's. $10.00 from each downloaded book goes to Lauren's Foundation.

"Through an artist's eyes"
Full color art book (10X8) 20 pages
Available by Christmas 2011

"I Udder-ly Love Moo!"
Illustrated children's book / color (6X6) 20 pages
Available by Christmas 2011

These books will carry the same proceeds ($5.00 for books and $10.00 for downloaded versions) which will service more wishes coming true.

Thanks for sharing with us!! May ALL of your wishes come true!
With love,
Lauren's family

Special thanks to Kent Shelton Photography
for the magic in our family Christmas Card Photo.

Lauren's book is currently unavailable for sale or complete review. Technical difficulties warranted this maintenance time, and we'll let you know when it is available again. Thanks for your patience. E-mail Melodie@webbtours.com with any questions, please.

Happily Ever After by Lauren Webb
& Melodie Webb | Make Your Own Book

11/11/11

What would you wish for if you were given the chance to make just one wish? Would you wish to give your wish away? Would you make a wish that the wish of someone else would come true? Would you create a wish that could change the lives of hundreds of people you don't even know?

Lauren made just that kind of wish ... and today, it comes true.

Lauren was a wish-maker. She wished on first and falling stars, lucky clovers, dandelion seeds, coins in wells or fountains, lucky pennies, eyelashes on your cheek, necklace clasps that had rotated to the front, birthday candles, "bumps" on the head, feet raised over railroad tracks, and numbers that repeated in sequence on dates or time like 2:22 or 11:11. We get 12 repeated dates a year ... 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, .... on up through 12/12. But, just how often do you get 11/11/11!? Today is simply a lucky, lucky day. Lauren would make sure of it.

So, we have too -- we've done all we can to make her wish a reality. Today, her book (the means to her wish) "Happily Ever After ... The Power of Perspective" is available on line -- and, as she wished, the proceeds will return through The Living Lauren's Legacy foundation to her favorite charities which will benefit thousands of wish-seekers. Every reader will learn how Lauren saw her life as a "Happily Ever After" and how in such short years, she was able to have such a powerful influence ... and that will help make YOUR wishes come true, just like she wished for.

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2642848

The book turned out much more expensive than we had hoped, but it's a beautiful photo book (572 to be exact) to coincide with Lauren's writings and the expanded addition of her mom's view from close by.

We'll post segments of the book on the blog over the next few weeks and provide a text only edition as well.

Happy WISH COME TRUE day ... for you, for us, and for our angel Lauren!

With love from all of the David Webb family
David, Melodie, Taylor and Heather, Sara, Carlie and Lauren

Happy 9/10/11

The fun nature of today's date would have gone over all of our heads, if not for Lauren. She wouldn't have missed another reason to celebrate! When else will you have the opportunity to 'party' over such a date? It's not the same without her, so we didn't celebrate the way SHE would have, but we did stop to acknowledge it's a fun date anyway.
She's got that effect on us. We notice things differently than we otherwise would, simply because she always did. We see more to be grateful for and more to celebrate and more to enjoy.
So enjoy this day and all of your own reasons to enjoy, celebrate, and be grateful, along with the fact that this particular date can't happen for another hundred years!

Happy 4th!!

July 4, 1996

Another 4th of July --

It is hard to believe that five years has passed away since being diagnosed with cancer. It's also hard to believe that it is possible that I hate that word now more than I did even then. Hind sight IS 20/20 vision, however, - so not really knowing what lied ahead couldn't allow for as much dread as knowing the course it put us on.
Even so, Lauren is such a profound privilege, that looking back I would still take the cancer if I knew it was the only way to have Lauren in our life. For reasons I don't think I'll ever understand in this lifetime, ... it was a package deal.
And, interestingly enough, ... that was amongst the first logical thoughts that came to my mind that dreaded night on the 1st of July 2006 when the words "your daughter has a tumor" were spoken. I recall feeling as though every ounce of blood was drained from my body because I couldn't move my extremities or form a logical thought. Quietly, and over and over again I began saying to myself "I know in Whom I have trusted." And, sometimes to this day, it is the only thought that makes any sense or calms my lonely heart.
At the time, it was the only thought I could form. And, it has proved most sustaining.
After we told Lauren, shed some tears, and watched her faithful spirit to fight, the next sustaining thought was how much of a privilege she is. And, I promised those in Whom I trust that because I trusted Them and knew what an honor it is to be her mom, I would find the battle a privilege too.
Easier said than done, I suppose. I didn't care for the battle. It was excruciating. I would give anything to remove the battle that ensued over the next three and a half years along with the wounds and scars left behind, but I wouldn't trade a moment of her life for anything either. She simply IS a privilege.
Our loving Father has ways we don't understand or don't want. But, He also had Lauren in mind for my family . . . and even my best dreams and wishes couldn't have conceived of such a gift.
We'll be on the parade route without her this year. And, I'm not going to pretend that doesn't hurt. But in her honor, and in honor of They who gave me the comforting and sustaining reminders of those realities, I'll just keep reminding myself that the joy and privilege she (and even that excruciating and unwanted battle to keep her) is forever.

July 4, 2006

May all your wishes come true!

Happy Birthday, Lauren!!