Happy Birthday Jayden…

Today marks one year since you were born. It has been a bitter sweet day as we remembered your birth and meeting you for the first time. We love and miss you and are excited to be able to be with you again someday. You are our angel and we feel so honored to be parents to such a perfect child.

Your cousins Braxton, Brooklyn, and Anna (minus Kolbin)

Your dad and I wanted to do a service project in honor of your 1 year birthday. We posted the service idea on our blog and entitled it “Calling All Angels” asking anyone that wanted to could help by donating baby blankets. We were overwhelmed by the outpouring of support we received by so many, friends, family, and even strangers.

We decided to donate the blankets to a hospital particularly a NICU for premature babies as I know how meaningful the blankets that I have that you were wrapped in are to us. It is something physical I was able to take home with me and that I can pull out and hold when I’m missing you.

We feel the blankets are symbolic because as we were waiting for you to be born, the hospital staff, family and friends surrounded us with their support, love and warmth, just as blankets bring love and warmth to the babies they are wrapped around. Happy Birthday our sweet boy!