A Day to Remember...

Today is the beginning of Down Syndrome Awareness Month...



A large group of us will be posting specail things to help celebrate this month, check out the blog listed on my side bar!




Remember our little angel, she brought so much joy to our lives and made us better people. My sweet baby girl we do miss you dearly, but we would of rather had a short time with you than never having you at all. You redefined life for so many...I love you punky!!!






Today was a really rough day. I actually put away some of Gabi's things. It still seems so soon, but I had to get organized. I tried to pretend I was just putting away clothes that don't fit anymore and I was getting out fall clothes...that only worked for a few minutes. I did not totally get rid of things, put her clothes in storage bins, put her blankies in a trunk we have in our room, and organized some toys and nick knacks. It definitely was no my idea of fun, but it felt good touching all of her stuff again. I put away all the clothes she never wore, her favorite clothes and special outfits are still hanging in the closet. I found some things I haven't seen in a while, like the bag of hair from her first haircut...it was just a trim from Mimi, but I still kept the hair. It made me realize just how lucky we were to of had so many firsts with her even at only 7 months.


As if that wasn't enough emotion for one day, as I was finishing Jason came in to tell me, he got the job in Indiana, soooooooooooooo we're moving. it will not happen immediately, we will lots of time for transition, plus we will always be back every other weekend to visit Gracie. So for those of you close to us reading this I am sorry we haven't been in touch yet, everything is happening so quickly. We will be on the road to Indiana tomorrow. Jason starts Wednesday and we are driving, I am going to check out apartments or whatever I find. We definitely do not want to mortgages, so until we sell in KS we will not buy in IN. The town Jason is working in is Carmel, just north of Indianapolis. As sad and scared as I am, I am relieved no more stress about work. Even though we will be far from family we will be back tons and we can make it work. I am so proud of Jason he is finally taking a job he is excited about. This adventure of running our own company has been exciting, but it is just not good timing for all and all that we have been dealt. I am looking forward to a new city, but I will terribly miss everyone at home.

Then after all the emotions of moving we went to visit Chelsea up at the hospital. Carey has mentioned in her blog lately how they can tell the chemo is in her system she has been acting sick, not her happy little self. Well as soon as we walked in the door her face lite up and she was so playful. We were so happy to see her. We had a great talk with Ryan and Carey. Ryan went home for the first time tonight, that was rough. He is such an amazing daddy to Chelsea. It was sad to see him go, but Logan needs him too! We stayed to visit with Carey and Chelsea for a bit after Ryan left. I think Chelsea has a thing for Jason she is such a flirt around him, it is so cute to watch them play. We had a great visit with Carey she plans on speaking up a bit more, they have been told they would be with one doctor and now they are changing doc's and with no say...frustrating when you are just starting to get comfortable with one then they want to switch things on you...so hopefully tomorrow she will speak to the right people to get some answers...

Go Carey Go!!!


Enjoy a few more pics of one happy girl... she loves making silly faces:)