Heaven Day

In honor of the third anniversary of Ryan's passing day, we thought of our angel by having a little picnic in the backyard with donuts (halo's) while writing messages on white star balloons to send up to heaven. The boys love this tradition. Yesterday morning, the 24th, was really hard, Jonathon was at school and Caleb was asleep and I watched Ryan's video of when he was in the NICU and I cried a lot. But after I got it all out for the day, wishing I could do anything just to hold and kiss him again, I got myself back on track, picked up Jonathon and we went about our day running errands for our evening events. Jonathon made my entire day by pulling out a little flower from his pocket wen we got home, he said he picked it for me at school! He melts my heart. I'm grateful for my family who was able to spend heaven day with us for the first time and share our traditions.

Caleb enjoying his halo :)

Writing a message to send to his big brother

Jonathon had his Jack Sparrow pirate costume on of course, so he wrote his name and Ryan's name with hearts and then a picture of a pirate so Ryan could see how cool he looked :)

Little brother Alex writing his message to his nephew

Big brother Chris and his wife Talynn writing their messages

Caleb finishing up his donut

Getting ready to send them off to heaven

Watching them float away

Up and up they go! We love you Ryan and loved honoring you all week, every August and each day in our hearts. It's amazing the wonderful things that have happened and will continue to happen because of Ryan. We're so lucky to have him always... forever ours. Until we meet again!