Hello everyone So let me start by saying that if you reviewed thank you very much however I am still trying to get my email working again and I have set up a new email and didn't get any reviews or anything from the last chapter. So once again I have changed emails hoping that I can see all the wonderful things people have to say. So lets try this again with chapter two. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 2: Once in a Cullen Day!

Esme's pov

My family, well it is big in my book but my kids make it big. My boys are going to be going off to college soon, they graduate in a week believe it or not. They grew up way too fast, so has my little girl who is a junior now. I bet she is glad her over protective brothers will no longer be there to scare away all her boyfriends. That's right I have three beautiful children that at one time I never dreamed of ever having. But I meet this wonderful man, a man I now call my husband.

We meet on the most unexpected circumstances. He was my doctor, the man who actually saved my life. My boyfriend at the time got a little heavy-handed one night and beat me until I was unconscious. My best friend charlotte found me and took me to the hospital where Carlisle treated me and stayed with me. He slowly showed me that it was okay to leave my boyfriend and eventually showed me what true love really was. We dated my last year of school and his last year as a resident before he asked me to marry him and I of course said yes. I couldn't have been happier.

I married my husband when both finished with our degrees. It was a wonderful spring day and the weather was perfect. We were married in the Chicago Botanical Gardens in 1978, we were married in a field of flowers, and our backdrop was a beautiful lake and the bell tower. As for our honeymoon well lets just say that it was a different surprise. Carlisle took me to a small island off the coast of Brazil only at the time I didn't know that it was our island. Better yet my island, Isle Esme it what it reads on a map. While on our getaway we christened our island in every place we could think of. While he was having fun I was hoping for a honeymoon child. We eventually had to return to the real world. Where I started designing the vacation house of my dreams and my home. It would take a while but I would make them both perfect.

Carlisle went back to medical school here in Chicago. I of course finished before he did which left me more time to design our house and start our family. I have always wanted a big family and Carlisle said it was fine as long as I was happy. I always wanted a house full of kids. I could be the troop leader or a soccer mom and would be happy either way. We tried for a whole year and nothing so I decided to stop trying and just let Mother Nature do her magic. In early June I found out that I would be expecting a little bundle of joy. I guess Carlisle graduation night celebration was a success. Either that or the night that we christened our new house. Either way it goes I was having a baby and I couldn't have been happier. However my body had other plans, after being on bed rest for two months and stopping contraction twice our son was born. On January 28th 1980 Edward Anthony Cullen was brought into the world. It was a bitter sweat moment. It was also the day that I would be told that I could no longer have children. I was heartbroken but at least I had little Edward to care for. I would spoil him rotten but he would be raised a gentleman.

Little Edward was a handful of fun. We enjoyed our walks in the park, making cookies, playing in the garden and making pictures for dad. It was a walk in the park one day where he met his soon to best friend. I remember that day, there was a young woman sitting on a blanket reading. I let Edward go off playing and when I went to look for him I couldn't find him. I remember panicking until I saw him lying on the blanket with Emmett sound asleep. Renee and I talked and quickly became great friends and soon the boys were attached at the hip. At 5 years old they started kindergarten, I think that we were more upset then the boys. Everyday Ren and I would walk the boys to school and go have coffee then go pick them up and take them to the park. There was hundreds of sleep over, pillow fights and pleading for more cookies. We signed up the boys up for T-ball and Boy scouts and soon things around the house became pretty busy.

Ren started dating the T-ball coach Phil and it was love at first site. He looked at her the way Carlisle looked at me. They made such a lovely couple. But it would never see a happy ending. It was Halloween and the boys were ever so ready to go trick or treating. Little Edward was Spider Man and little Emmett dressed up to be Batman. I waited as long as I could for Ren to show up. She was picking up Phil from the airport. But I ending up taking the boys out trick or treating alone because Carlisle was called into the hospital. Apparently there was a huge pill up on the Dan Ryan. I tried calling but once again no answer. It wasn't until my husband got home later that night that I was told that Ren and Phil had been in a horrible accident and didn't make it. I'll never forget that day.

~Flashback~

"Esme, dear where are you." Carlisle called out

"In the kitchen dear, you were gone a while…must have been a bad accident."

"Umm….um Yes it was. Where are the boys? Did they enjoy their night."?

"Yes they were the cutest little things ever but Ren never showed up. She's not answering her phone either. I wonder if she lost it again. You know how she can get lost in her own back yard."

"About that, come sit down with me." I walked over to my husband and was scared. For the first time in a very long time I was scared.

"You know that I was called into the hospital today and that there was a bad, a really bad accident on the Dan Ryan. " Carlisle began to say.

"Yes, I know I saw some of it on the new this afternoon. Was everyone okay, why are you acting strange? Carlisle what is going on?"

"Dear, Ren and Phil were in that accident. Ren didn't make it and Phil died at the hospital. There was nothing that I could do for them. I'm sorry."

My husband held me while I cried that night. I'll never forget the look on my husbands face when he told me. He thought that if things were different that maybe he would have been able to do something. But no matter how hard it was to hear that my best friend had passed away it was even harder for us to tell little Emmett. How do you tell a six year old that your mother has passed away? Carlisle and I set him down and tried to explain to him that when people died that they went to a better place. We told him that there was a really bad accident and that his mother had passed away. He looked at me with sad eyes and asked me " Since I don't have a daddy anymore, who would want me now?" I simplely told him that he didn't need to worry that he would stay with us and that we would make for sure that he was taken care of. He held onto me for dear life as he cried himself to sleep that night. True to our word we took care of everything. We held a funeral and started to the process of adopting Emmett. We hired a private investigator to look into the Wright family trying to find Emmett father but nothing came back. Renee never really talked about her life with her ex-husband so we just assumed that it ended badly. We filed the nessacery paper work and within 6 months the adoption went through all we had to do was ask Emmett. So we did just that and Emmett agreed. So on May 19th Emmett Charles Wright became Emmett Charles Cullen.

Things in the Cullen house ran a any other house that had two growing boys and it seemed at times that they were in a race to see who was going to be the tallest. In November of 1989 my dear husband brought home a little girl that they found walking around in the streets. The little girl said that her mommy left her at the playground and she never came back. From what Carlisle was able to place together she had been wondering around for about a week. Because it was so close to thanksgiving child services let Carlisle bring her home. She was a shy little thing and was scared to death of Emmett. We took her shopping and she stayed with us for about a week and during that time I fell in love with her. I went to Carlisle and asked him if we could take the necessary paper work for us to keep her with us until they found her family or we could adopt her. It took us a year to get everything in order and in June she became Mary Alice Cullen. Before long I had the family that I wanted and could care less if I actually carried them for nine months or not. I had a beautiful little girl and two wonderful growing little boys. A mother couldn't ask for anything more.

Carlisle and I decided to buy a house out on the west coast. It was a fixer upper but I enjoyed a challenge. We decided that every summer we would vacation for a month. We would spend two weeks out of the summer on the west coast in a little town of Forks while the boys would be away at summer camp and then we would spend two week on Isle Esme as a family. It was a great decision and soon became a family tradition. Alice quickly made friends, something that she was really good at. And they spent all of their time together, two lovely little girls. A Miss Rosalie Hale and a Miss Bella Swan. Little Bella reminded me of my son Emmett, imp not for sure why but she did. I treated them just like my children, even though it was only for two weeks at a time. The girls would keep in touch through out the year and sometimes they would travel back and forth to spend time with each other. Friendships grew and time passed. Right before my eyes all my children were growing up. The boys were graduating and spending the summer traveling around the U.S. and Canada. We would be spending our summer in Forks. However things that were once as plan as day would soon be black as night.