Remembering....

This past Monday would have been Mr.'s 38th birthday! YIKES! We celebrate every year by releasing balloons to float to heaven! This year things were just a bit crazy, we had been gone all weekend and then spend half of Monday at the specialist's office. But I managed to pull it all off last minute! 

On the way home from the specialist office I stopped at A.C Moore and picked up a helium tank to blow up the balloons. I had forgotten my wallet so I only had a enough money for the tank.
So I had to go back out to the grocery store and get balloons. (I needed formula too!)

I had asked my sitter to make pizza for us, but there was no wings. Our traditional meal is wings and pizza followed by the balloon release! Grandma E came over to join us in the balloon send off. 

Lee helped me blow up balloons, Elizabeth and David tied strings on each one. We blew up 30 balloons! 

We wrote a message on some of the balloons. I was simply going through the motions, through my extreme exhaustion. So it was not the typical fun celebration. 

But everyone joined in, even Nesiah! 

Lee tied these balloons together to represent Mr. and I! ;) 

We invited the neighbor kids to join us in the release! Oh what fun it was!! 

On count of 3, we released our balloons and watched as they slowly drifted heavenward... 

We watched until they were long gone, far off in the horizon. The kids argued over whether or not they will actually reach heaven or if Mr. will see them from heaven! 

My love, gone but not forgotten. Even 7 years later with people who have never met him, we celebrate him. We celebrate the love he brought into my life. We celebrate the joy he brought into life. We celebrate and we remember.