So many special moments

Shania is gone but will never be forgotten. She will live on with her dream, which is to find a cure so no other child will ever have to go through what she did and suffer from this disease. She will live on in our hearts, with the so many special moments that we got to share with her. We miss her so much! It hurts so bad not to be able to see her big beautiful dimples, vibrant green eyes, sweet smile, that voice that said so many nice things to and about so many people. Everywhere we look we remember those special moments and it makes us wish that we could have her back so much. We would like to thank everyone for coming out and saying fond good byes to our Shania. Also we would like to thank Monica Valitalo(Funeral Director) for helping us make shania's funeral a special goodbye and celebration of her life. And Thanks for the moving tributes by Rev. Dr. Vernon F. Gunckel, John King (honorary Grampa and our Neighbor),Mr Mayor(as Shania called him) Mayor Frank Scarpitti, Uncle (Billy) Bill Francis, Aunt (Dan Dan) Danielle Johnston, Grandma Sandra Johnston, Kari Kangas (Family Friend). We hung up Shania's beautiful quilt behind her, which was made with love by Shania's friends from Reesor Park School. We also had Shania's Leafs hockey shirt from when she was a baby, which was signed by Ken Dryden. Thank you Tanya Dallaire for coming and having a "stamp it up station", so people could make there own personal cards to say good bye to Shania. We put all of her favorite cuddles in the coffin with her along with some picture of us as a family. The coffin was called Canadiana which could be signed with colour markers by her friends that wanted to. Shania would have loved this idea because she loved to doodle and write sweet notes all of the time. We spent a couple of days going through all of our pictures to put up on the beautiful sunflower boards that my Dad,Sandra and Danielle made. Shania's Aunt Sandy, Aunt Bonnie, Grandma Coombs and Carol helped put all of these great memories into small photo albums from Shania as a baby up until now. Thanks for that I don't think we could have done it without you. Ruth Roberts and Syd Birrell did a beautiful rendition of the song that Shania wrote at the hospital. Ruth also played a song called "Skye boat song" which Shania used to ask her to play over and over again. It was very uplifting, thank you for doing this as a tribute for Shania. Our family would like to thank everyone for coming out for to the celebration of Shania's life. Monday I picked up the rest of the flowers from the chapel. We went over to Markhaven retirement home and asked if they wanted some as a gift from Shania and they gladly excepted them. Next we dropped off the sunflower balloons and a bouquet of flowers off at Markham Veterinarian Clinic whom is having a Shania's week to raise awareness and funds for Shania's dream. They had planned this week out awhile ago and asked if they should still have it. We would really like to carry on Shania's dream to find a cure and thought that it would be great. They are selling Shania's shirts and jewelry also they are raffling a lovely sunflower picture. As whiskey would say "you guy's are purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdy special". Thank you for honoring our Shania with this week. The balloons were donated by Balloon Experts, when Monica from the funeral home called to purchase them and they found out that they were for Shania, they said no charge. These are examples of what life truly is all about. People uniting together to help others. Everyone can be a piece of the puzzle. It feels so good to help others, I think that helping others is what will help our family cope with the loss of our sweet Shania.
We had one last stop for the day and that was in Waterdown, where I grew up. We placed the two reefs that we had gotten for Shania's Celebration of life on a Friend Cam Murray's resting place. Along with his parents whom are beside him. They all were taken to early by cancer also. It felt good to continue helping Shania to spread her love. We had called my dad to tell him that we were coming down and he met us there. His best friend John Kane is resting about six rows
up from them. We asked him if he would like to place one of Shania's reefs there. He did and had a moment with him. This morning when Shannon got up she asked if we could make a breakfast in bed for Karen. So that's what we did. Shannon wanted to make a smilie face out of the bacon, cut up apples for the head and ketchup for the nose. I said to keep an eye out that Karen didn't come out when we were making it. And Shannon said that Shania would have liked to make a sign to slide under the door to tell her not to come out, which she had done before. I will miss these special little notes that she used to make up. Shannon asked us if we could have a Shania special night tonight. We used to have mommy or daddy special nights as a surprise all the time, they loved to do this. Shania and Shannon would make up signs, rehearse a dance show, help prepare a special meal and get all dressed up for the big surprise. It was so exciting to do this, it made you feel so good. Shania would even make up best Sister,Mother,Father awards for us. We would hide and jump out when one of us got home. We had all the fine cutlery out and all of the candles lit. They were so fun. So to answer Shannons question yes oh yes, yes, yes yes !!!!!!!
We will always believe in Shania we will we will !!!!!!
We will always believe in Shania we will we will !!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will always believe in Shania we will we will !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With love that is true,
Shayne,Karen,____ &Shannon