When Larissa met Ian at college in 2005, she never dreamed she'd one day be his wife ... and his caretaker. After a tragic accident left Ian without the ability to speak, walk or care for himself, she did what any woman in love would do: she married him.
"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
Bri is an outgoing introvert with a heart that beats for adventure. She lives to serve the Lord, experience the world, and eat macaroni and cheese in between capturing life’s greatest moments on one of her favorite cameras.
"That day, my son didn't know what was happening... One day someone comes in and rips your life apart; just comes in and tears your limbs off, and it's supposed to be OK."
Her son was experiencing pain, fever, vomiting, diarrhea and sore muscles. Then he woke up with the worst rash she's ever seen and told her, "I’m Going to Die."
“I heard my daughter crying in her crib as I repeated over and over, ‘She will never remember me,’ and began a dialogue in to my husband's phone that I prayed she would never have to hear."