Family Shield

Tomorrow Tyler's School hosts a Fall Carnival called Canterbury Fair. I am one of the chairs for this fun family event with two awesome friends that have done so much for me and this event. Each student in the school was supposed to create a family shield that has been displayed all week at week at school and will be displayed tomorrow. Needless to say I am very proud of our family shield. The top part says, Family is Forever.

Healing Hands

Sweet Jesus, please put your healing hands on my wonderful Husband and the rest of my family. My sweet Husband is sick and it just breaks my heart to see him not feeling well. I just don't like when my loved ones are sick. I am praying for a quick recovery for him and that the rest of my family can stay healthy. My second post this Morning and it is 6:30 am. Sometimes sleep can be a little hard these days. May you all have a blessed day.

Not The Same

I am very involved with the Junior League of Bell County. I joined the League in the Spring of 2006 and every year I am blown away by all we do for our community and those in need. The past few months I have learned how grateful I am to be part of such a wonderful organization with so many helping and loving arms and hands.
On Tuesday night we had our monthly General Membership Meeting and this month was a Halloween themed meeting. This is my second year to serve on the Board and we thought we would all dress alike as Hippies.
It was fun seeing everyone dressed up, but for some reason it was not as fun as it used to be during this month. I love Holidays and decorating but this Fall it has been a little different because I know our Holidays are going to be bitter sweet with out our precious Landry. It took a good friend encouraging me to decorate this year. (I used to be a planner and I would have already started planning our Christmas Card, but once we left the Hospital with an empty car seat I learned that I can't plan everything but what I can do is put my HOPE in our sweet Heavenly Father and TRUST in Him). The one thing that stuck with me was when she told me to live the Holidays through Tyler and I find it a blessing in being able to view the Holiday's through Tyler's eyes. I am so thankful that I have such wonderful friends encouraging me every day.

Spooky Halloween treats and punch

Wordless Wednesday-Blessings

Keepsakes

I have received so many special keepsakes that I love being able to wear them. I received the Tyler and Landry charm at Landry's baby shower. My dear friend Whitney made it for me and I was so excited about being able to wear it. When we came home from the hospital with out Landry I was putting stuff away and I saw the charm with my boys names on it and I just started crying. It took me a few weeks to put it on but once I did I felt a sense of peace and closeness. My friend K.C. gave me the L charm the day of Landry's viewing at the funeral home. Landry's charm with his beautiful face was given to me by a long time childhood friend, Heather. She brought over three so Ghee and Nana could have a charm of their beautiful Grandson, too. This necklace means the world to me and I am so thankful I have these beautiful keepsakes to help me feel close to my littlest. I also received a special monogram handkerchief at Landry's viewing, as well and it stays on my night stand so I am able to look at it every night and morning. It helps having meaningful keepsakes around so I can look at them and smile everyday.

Missing Him

My heart has been so heavy today and all of my thoughts have been about Landry and how much I wish he was here to complete our family. I was watching Tyler play today and I longed for him to have his little brother here with us. I feel like my head is full of thoughts but I can't seem to get anything out except, I am missing Landry.

The Ones That Got Away

After the balloon release on Friday, Jen told me to take some balloons home with me since my Parents and Ryan could not make it to the release. I thought that sounded like a great idea because Ty loves releasing balloons and watching them go to Heaven. I took the balloons out of the car when I got home from picking Ty up from school I told Tyler that we were going to write special notes for Landry and send them to Heaven. I was busy putting school stuff away and hear the door open. All of the sudden I hear "Uh, Oh".... the balloons are stuck in the tree. That is the one thing about our neighborhood, we do not have a shortage of trees anywhere. I couldn't help but smile. Tyler kept saying "the balloons are not going to Heaven." I told him that we were going to get to enjoy seeing them all day and we did because we spent our whole afternoon outside with the balloons.