Celebrating Luke, A Christmas Tree, & a Friend’s Loss

We celebrated a birthday on Saturday.

Not in the way we had originally intended, but we did celebrate.

I actually ended up cancelling Luke’s party.

BOO! I know.

I had a lot of families call me to say they were going to be out of town, or their kids got sick, etc. so I thought it would be best to cancel.

I wasn’t too hip on preparing all the food and fun for 2 kids to show up.

We tried to make it up to him as much as we could.

He still called it his birthday party even though it was just the three of us.

We took him to an indoor playground called Run Plus Fun to start off our day.

He had a blast while mom and dad followed him around.

 

We let him open a couple of presents and then he got to choose where we ate lunch.

It was without question, McDonalds.

Later in the day it was boy bonding time.

Jared took Luke to the mall to ride the train and then out for ice cream.

 

He is still really into trains so this was the highlight of his day.

He is also a really big fan of ice cream.

Overall, I think it was successful.

We still have his actually birthday (Wednesday) to do a little more celebrating.

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This weekend we also set up the good ol’ Christmas tree.

I usually wait until after Thanksgiving.

I am all about taking one holiday at a time, but where we are going to be in Utah a lot and gone for a week on our cruise I wanted to enjoy it as much as possible.

I added lime green to the red and silver this year and I am in love.

It’s hard to tell from my not-so-good photos but I really like the way it turned out.

We even moved some furniture around to put it right in front of the window.

Luke is memorized by the tree and he loves to cover up our eyes and then yell surprise when he uncovers them to show us the tree.

What a magical time.

Tonight he told me the story of the three bears & the three pigs.

This is something I HAVE to get on film. It is too funny.

He also told me today in the car that when we get home I need to do my exercises. Thanks buddy!

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In sad news, my heart has been heavy the past couple days.

Yesterday morning I heard from a dear friend of mine that she had lost her baby at 17 weeks.

She has been such a great friend and support to me as I dealt with the loss of Ruby.

I am deeply saddened to know she is  experiencing this loss as well.

And while I know the heartache that losing a child can bring, there are no words for this situation.

I hope and pray she is finding the comfort and peace she needs at this time.

I hope she is feeling the love that everyone has for her.

I also hope that I can be a supportive friend during her time of mourning as well.

She is an amazing person.