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A soft echo of my familiar name, worn out from being called so many times. I would freeze to death out in the cold, a little second grader popsicle. I timidly raised the edge of my hat where was everyone? I peered towards where I thought my house was.

I pulled up my scarf to cover my nose and my hat over my eyes. My face stung from the pelting ice and snow.

The wicked wind whipped by by ears so quickly I couldn't hear a thing. So of course when we got outside, after what seamed like years to get us squealing rug rats all dressed in our marshmallow outfits, we began trudging through the foot deep snow. The idea was first presented by my mom, "Why don't we go for a nature walk together?"Ī "nature walk". Of course two pint sized munchkins like us would get lost in the blizzard. My story starts off with two crazy kids, me and my brother, bounding down the stairs excited for their third or fourth snow day that week, (okay I admit it doesn't begin so wretched.) That’s not like a normal day because we hardly ever got snow days, only once in my life have I ever gotten enough snow to cancel school for a whole week. So we bumbled into the kitchen and announced that we were going on a snowy adventure outside. A cliche storyteller would say that it had begun “like any other day” but it didn’t. My snow memory is a story so wildly sinister you might just cry, right there. Lauren you are awesome and we all love you very much.This is a warning: the title of this story makes you think of cheery days with hot chocolate. Heavenly Father has been with her every step of the way. We have seen miracles through this journey of Lauren's. Her surgeons and nurses could not believe that she recovered so fast, everyone was amazed. She was so happy!! Seven days after her surgery, she was well enough to go home. They came to perform to the kids at the hospital but she could not get out of bed. She even had 4 members of different bands come in and give her a private little concert. She had lots of friends and her brothers and sister that came to visit her. As the days came and went she began to gain her strength back, the therapist had her sitting up and walking. The days that followed were filled with lots of special care from all the doctors, nurses and physical therapist at Shriners, she was on some strong medicine to ease her pain. She had one on one and was doing really well. She was in the special care unit for three days, where the best nurses took great care of her. It was a six hour surgery and the surgeons were able to straighten her spine from a 65 percent curve to a 20 percent curve. She was not nervous when the day of surgery came. I know that through many prayers and lots of faith miracles do happen. She had the surgery within three weeks of being accepted. Normally it takes two months for the application process and then another six to eight months for the surgery. She was accepted as a patient with Shriners Hospital, in record time.

She went through a variety of test, CT scans, x-rays, blood work and more. We were very surprised but at this point she had no choice. We took her to different doctors, Primary Children's Hospital and Shriners Hospital and the verdict was the same, Lauren would need spinal fusion surgery. Lauren was diagnosed with Scoliosis (curve in her spine) in late December.