Brenna's Friendship and Love was unlike any Paige had. 

We are honored to share Brenna's Eulogy to Paige.

            It was only a couple weeks ago that I was sitting in one of our favorite restaurants talking with a friend. We were having the usual back from college how our lives have changed talk. We talked for a while about classes and our new friends. By now we all have found our new groups at school and in a lot of ways we have grown apart. But in end, Matt and I agreed it was our friends from home that meant the most. They were the ones who we always fall back on; they are the ones that stopped judging us a long time ago. As they say “your college friends know who you are, but your high school friends know why.”

 Paige was my best friend, she the one that always kept me smiling and laughing; and we all know Paige and once in a while she was good at keeping me mad too. When we went to school we knew that no one was going to compare. We never felt the urge to go out and make a new best friend. We didn’t need to. No matter how far away we were or how different our lives were. We were still only a phone call away. 

She was not just my wife, or our mini, our peanut, or our twin she was our Paige. There was something about her that caught your attention right away. Of course it helped that she always liked to be the center of attention. But, there was an angelic presence that never could be ignored. She was our Guardian Angel in disguise. Everyone who knows her is so blessed. We are lucky enough to have laughed and cried and smiled with a real Angel. God brought her into our lives for a reason, and who blames him for wanting her back already. She is beautiful and funny, charismatic and remarkable. It will be impossible to ever ignore someone as special as her.

Paige wasn’t just my best friend she was part of my family. I was joking with my mom the other day and we were talking about if Paige had the chance to come back she wouldn’t. She has the good life now. She has all the chips and salsa she wants. She is tanning on a beach where the sand doesn’t bother her; and her hair is as blonde as she wants it to be. I know she is laughing at us right now because we are upset but Paige I have never felt this before, we always joked if something ever happened it would always be okay because in the end we would always have each other.

Our families and I are so blessed to be surrounded by so many people who love her just as much as we do. We are lucky to be with people who realized how much of an amazing person she was. One smile and she had you hooked. It’ is breathtaking when I look at her face book wall and I look at beautiful things people wrote. It doesn’t make me sad. It makes me smile. I am honored to be able to call someone that amazing my best friend.

I look at the people standing here today to bid her a fare well, and all of us have a Paige story. I could go on and talk for days about all the crazy stuff we got away with, but there is one simple thing about her that I was so jealous of. Okay well maybe two. But it always amazed me, Paige could get into any car, and you could turn on any radio station, and she would know every word to that song. She had the most beautiful voice, and now she’s singing with the heavenly choirs.

We can stand here and be selfish and ask why. But she would never want that. Paige knew how to celebrate and that’s what she wants us to do; celebrate her life. It may seem hard to believe, but we are lucky. We are lucky enough to never have to be apart from her again. I know she is with us more now then she ever has been. She is not just in our memories she is forever in our hearts and our souls. We can’t get rid of her now. She is perched on our right shoulders and she is not letting go. Paige did more in her 18 years than most of us will do in our entire; she saved the lives of 7 people. Paige isn’t just going to protect those lucky people she is going to keep us laughing and smiling for the rest of our lives.

            She called her mother and me her hero, but Paige I am sorry you have that wrong, you are not just our hero you are a hero to everyone. You are so brave and so strong. We could never expect you to stay around. Paige, you could never keep your feet on the ground because you were born to fly. Now where ever I look I will always see you. Every time I feel the wind, the snow or the sun I know it is you. You will never let me be lonely again and for that I am forever grateful. There are no goodbyes to be said today because we know we will see you soon. Till then I ask that you take care of us and give us strength. Paige it is your turn to worry about us. I can’t wait to see your smile light up another room and hear your contagious laugh, I love you so much my best friend.