For Landry's Birthday

Landry's 2nd birthday is coming up and I want to do something for someone else. For me it helps get through the hard days when I am thinking of someone else. This year I want to do what I can to help this family. There little boy Keeynn was one of Owen's NICU neighbors. He passed away shortly after Owen left the hospital. Later they had a little girl, Kyla Kynn, she passed away too. They were born with a genetic mutation and their little bodies can't produce the needed surfactant for their lungs.
My heart goes out to this family, they would love to be able to have a healthy child to love and raise.
For Landry's birthday I am going to donate to this family in Landry's name and invite you to do the same. They have an online donation center, or if you aren't very online savvy you an send it to me and I will send it on to them. Every dollar counts, if you think your donation would be too small think again because every little donation adds up to something big.
Please feel free to share the link to my blog to spread the word.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Genetic-Mutation?i=wdgi

How the dragonfly came to be!

This is how far behind I am with blogging, I took these pictures last July.

This dragonfly was right outside our backdoor when I noticed it (it was huge). I immediately thought of Landry. The funny thing is, is that his dragonfly hung out there in the same spot for the whole afternoon. When I showed it to Abby she said, "I guess Landry wanted to come visit." I agreed. We love dragonflies now and think of our little angel whenever we see one.

Now, why a dragonfly?

One evening a good friend called and said, "hey I wasn't going to tell you, but I put a solar dragonfly at Landry's grave site and I forgot to turn it on." How thoughtful, but I didn't realize how much it would mean to us until we started seeing dragonflies everywhere and they were a constant reminder of our little angel. They make us smile and remind us that he is never far away.

Now the really crazy thing is that Landry would be turning two years old at the end of this month. It is unbelievable to me! It seems like forever ago but it also seems like I was just pregnant with him and preparing his arrival. I miss my little Landry so much but I know he is hard at work in Heaven. I also know he will never be far from us and he will always be cheering us on to make it back to him.

I am not as prepared for his birthday as I was last year as far as what to do, but I have an idea so you will have to stay tuned because my idea might take all of you to pull off so be prepared.