Eight years ago, Annie Taylor's baby Ruby was fighting for her life in UCLA hospital while she waited for a liver transplant.

Today I sit down with Annie and talk all about the beautiful details of Ruby's life and legacy.

Why organ donation is such a tricky subject with babies and small children and what every parent should consider about organ donation before they're ever in a position

to have to decide. Annie also shares with me a little about her grief process and how and why she felt

peace and what friends and family did that helped her the most. I am so excited to have this

interview tonight with my friend Annie Taylor.

And Annie and I have been friends since, I don't know, the early 2000s in our days at

BYU.

And Annie is a mom, and she really has such a beautiful story.

And Annie, do you want to tell everyone kind of your, like,

who you are and what you're up to? Yeah. So I'm Annie Taylor and I'm a proud mom of five

awesome kids. So I have an 11-year-old girl named Kate. And then we had Ruby second and she passed away coming up on eight years.

And then we have Lola, who's six, and then we have twins who just turned to a boy and a girl.

So they keep me quite busy day and night.

I bet.

And you guys live in, do you live in Northern California now?

Yeah. So we moved near Sacramento about two years ago for my husband's job. So we're really,

we're liking it here a lot, but we miss living by the ocean and living by family. But we love the people here and for learning to love it.

That's awesome.

So Annie, and I just have to say, too, I love that I think you're the only other Annie that I know that spells your name the same way that we spell our Annie because we named our first daughter Annabelle

and spelled at A-N-A-B-E-E-L-E. And so when I say Annie and when I write her name, it didn't make

sense for me to throw in an extra N that didn't write A-N-N-I-E. So we always spell it A-N-I and

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