Baby Carson

Memorial day is a day to honor fallen veterans who have died fighting for our country. Some people including myself and my family would spend Memorial day placing flowers on graves of deceased family members and honoring their memories. Two years ago my family had a terrible loss. My nephew Carson passed away after just being with us here on earth for 76 days. I think about him often, especially on holidays. Today marks the 2 year anniversary of Carson's passing and being that it is also Memorial day,  I would like to honor and remember baby Carson with this post followed by a poem (revised) I wrote last year.

 

I was there the day you were born, my little Carson Lee.
I took your first pictures and held you tight, my heart was full of glee.

 

 

Such a beautiful and precious baby, a bundling gift from God.
So happy and content you were, and everyone was awed.

 

 

We knew you were amazing, you melted all our hearts.
We never could imagine we would ever be apart.

 

 

I remember when I heard the news, I fell to the ground and cried,
I couldn't even fathom someone so young had died.

 

 

You blessed us with your presence for exactly 76 days,
You blessed us with your presence in so many different ways.

 

 

We still can not believe you're gone, not even after two years,
and as I write this and think of you I wipe away the tears.

 

 

We hope you're looking down on us our angel from above.
We can still feel you all around, and hope you feel our love.

 

 

Please know how much we love you, and miss you every day.

                                         Look down on us from heaven and listen as we pray.

 

We may never know why, you were taken from us here,
But we find comfort in knowing you're with our Lord up there.

 

 

Your Auntie Shell loves and misses you very much Carson.

City boy with a country heart

Growing up in Idaho I always dreamed of what it would be like to live in a big city. Now that I know I have to admit although I do like living in the city I still miss country life. I'm hoping that eventually we can make it back and live somewhat close to the country once this military life is over until then I have to rub off a little country life on Kevin whenever I can. Last weekend we went to the Chesapeake Jubilee (very similar to a fair). We saw a ton of animals which Kevin absolutely LOVED and then I had to grab some pictures of Kevin on some John Deere tractors. As I saw him smiling on top of the tractors it made my heart melt and I couldn't help but think of my Grandfather.

 I was so happy when I saw him light up being on the tractor, he loved them.

The sun was in his eyes but I can't get enough of this smile.

He's so adorable I just can't stand it!!

Popsicles

Kevin LOVES popsicles!! We buy the mini slow melts and let him go outside with them which he since he loves to be outside he especially loves it. These pictures are of his first popsicle experience I was surprised by how well he did with it. He didn't try to move around to much, he seemed like he knew exactly what to do with it, sucking just a little bit at a time. I love in the last picture how he sees the puddle of melted popsicle on the ground and looks up as to say "why is the popsicle gone"? We since then have started putting bibs on him even though the popsicle is slow melt he still managed to dribble quite a bit. Such a great welcome into summer; popsicles, flip flops, and shorts!!

I want to BLOG!!!

Kevin is napping, my house is clean (for the most part), and it's my day off. So blog I shall!! Last time I blogged about Kevin's 1st Birthday party in Idaho. His second 1st Birthday party was in WA with all of his cousins, my Dad, my Washington friends. It was an awesome party and a friend of mine named Rochelle made his cake and it turned out amazing.

 All I did was send her a picture of a cake I found online and she more than exceeded my expectations. I loved it. And it was the most amazing carrot cake I have ever tried.

 Kevin's little personal cake, so cute!

 The entire time we were in Washington Kevin had so much fun playing with his cousins and his Uncle Kaleb. I was surprised at how well he interacted and played with the other kids when he's not around kids that often.

 Here is Kevin trying to give Uncle Kaleb a kiss.

 Excited for more cake!!

 My sister Tara stopped at Baskin Robbins on the way to the party and grabbed these adorable clown cones.

 With the amount of older kids we had at this party we thought it would be fun to have a pinata. We found an awesome pirate ship one and everyone starting from young to oldest got a whack at it.

 Kaleb trying to get the ship.

 Adam loves pinatas and actually got a small part open which he was so excited for.

Overall Kevin had two amazing Birthday parties and I'm so glad we were able to celebrate with all of our family.