Reminders of the Season

A few days before Tyler passed away, I looked out my kitchen window to see the day lilies blooming in the front walkway. I thought to myself how glad I was that they were blooming so that when my mom and stepdad came to visit a couple weeks later, they would be pretty. Little did I know that Tyler would pass away before they could see him again. This year, as I looked outside, I was reminded how the day lilies come up at this same time. End of June. Funny how God knew that, as He does every detail. He knew that I would be sweetly reminded of his faithfulness through the simplicity of a flower bloom. I get to be reminded of my Tyler each year on June 24th as I'm greeted by these flowers.

Not only is it the season when Tyler passed away, it's the season of my birthday. Tyler passed away four days after my birthday last year, so from now on, my birthday is marked by the reminder that four days later we gave our sweet boy back to the Lord. This year, for my birthday we were pretty low key. Our sweet friends Rick and Judy kept Cooper overnight, Jerrod and I grabbed a quick dinner, visited some friends and went to bed early. It was quite hard not having Coop here at the house, a very odd feeling, but I think he had a pretty big time with "JuJu and Uncle Rick!"

For my gift from Cooper, Jerrod asked him what he loved about Mommy.....He gave several reasons, but then landed on, "She's beautiful..." Jerrod took him to Target to pick out my gift and he was so adamant about making me "beautiful." He chose a pink bracelet (animal print:), pink earrings, and of course a pink shirt. Notice a theme?? The sack he gave it to me in was pink, too, with pink tissue paper. Boy was he proud!!! What a sweetie! Just thought I'd share a couple pictures of the outfit:) I did talk to him about needing to take the earrings and bracelet back because they "didn't fit:)" He was totally content with that....

On the 24th, we celebrated Tyler's Glory Day. Our precious friends loaned us their home to use so people could stop by and swim and hang out. We had lots of people come by and give hugs and cards and flowers and so many friends helped make this day possible from the house, to the signs, to cleaning up. Thank you all for helping us remember and honor our sweet Tyler. Here are a few pics from the day...

Only a couple more prego pictures to post:) Here I am at 34 weeks....a little passed my 8 month shot, but oh well. I'll be sure to take another pic at 9 months and then one right before D-Day! This was from the day of my shower where I felt very loved by so many people. It was such a sweet time, and very emotional. Lots of details went into making it special and it was a lot of fun to have my mom here for it. I will post some pics later hopefully;)

Thank you all for continuing on this journey with us. Many changes ahead, so many great things, and so many unknowns. I can't even believe that Sawyer will be here in 4 weeks or less, it just seems surreal. I can't believe Tyler is already going to be a big brother. He would almost be 18 months, so not too hard to imagine having all three of my boys. I will have to wait to have them all again, but praising the Lord for this miracle within.

So grateful for what GOD's doing.....