I know, i know, I've been terrible at updating my blog! Life just gets away on me and I hardly have an extra 2 minutes...I feel like there needs to be more than 24 hours in a day sometimes.
Anyways, our little boy turned 1 this month! It's hard to believe that a whole year has gone by since he came into our lives. Liam has filled every day with joy - he is full of smiles and brings life to a room.
For his first birthday, we wanted to do something a little bit different. We knew that we didn't need anymore toys or clothes - we've been blessed with much! So, we wanted to come up with a way of blessing someone else. Jason and I talked about it a lot, prayed about it but couldn't come up with something that both of us felt great about. One Sunday, we were sitting in church, and one of the pastors mentioned a family that was going through a tough time - they needed to get their daughter a surgery that is not available in Canada, and so were trying to raise $25,000 to go to the USA for the surgery. We just knew that this was the family we wanted to help. After finding out a bit more information, we sent out Liam's invitations telling everyone our idea that if they wanted to get Liam a gift, that it be in the form of a donation to this family. It was such a wonderful evening of fellowship and celebrating our Liam!
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| The Mickey mouse cake made by a wonderful girlfriend, SL. Check out her website at http://www.cakesbyshawna.blogspot.com/ |
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| She made 4 dozen Mickey Mouse cupcakes as well (The cake/cupcakes were all a gift from Auntie Kare and Uncle Ben in Australia) |
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| The birthday boy greeting his guests |
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| Hanging with Auntie Abby (MAJOR teething cheeks) |
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| House full of people! |
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| Happy Birthday to you! |
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| Having his first taste of cake...with Mama and Papa watching on Skype from Australia |
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| Yep, he loved it! |
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| Birthday Boy with Grammy |
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Thank you to all of our friends and family for celebrating with us and for helping us bless this family. We are so excited to be able to share with Liam what we did for his first birthday when he's old enough to understand.
For more information on the family that we donated to, you can go to:
http://www.wix.com/triacam/funds-4-savanna
and
http://www.theprovince.com/health/Baby+stem+cells+could+sister/4083561/story.html
2 comments:
Fantastic idea to bless another family in honor of your son's birthday! Love the cake and the pic of his first bite into it!
What a great idea! Looks like a fabulous celebration of your littlest big boy ;)
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