10.5.11 - Birthday Celebration and a surgiversary

2 years ago today, we handed our newborn baby boy over to a miracle surgeon to fix his heart.  With hope in our hearts and prayers on our lips, Liam's surgery was a success and we could finally work toward bringing him home.  2 years later we celebrate...the birth of our child and the new life given to him by God through his surgeon.  We are so very very blessed...what a miracle we have experienced!

This past weekend was Liam's 2 year birthday party - quite a difference from his 1 year party!  He was so excited, we had talked about it all week, and he knew it was his special day.  All of our friends and family came to celebrate at our house with us - it was such a wonderful day!

Such a beautiful day outside!

We poured bubbles in the water table!  A good idea at the time...until Liam started wiping his eyes with more bubbles!!

Fun with bubbles!

These little cuties were our impromptu marching band and parade!

Friends and family

Coloring with our homemade train crayons!  Oh, and yes after the bubbles-in-the-eyes fiasco, his shirt was soaked, so of course we had to put him in his Cowboy jersey for game time!!

Hmmm...what other goodies are in here?

Look at that face!  He LOVES his new Hot Wheels wall toy!!  

Hours and hours of entertainment!

I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to Icing Smiles and Cakes Amore, in Plano, TX for providing Liam's Train cake....it was such a big hit and was SO yummy!  It was perfect...we could not have asked for anything more!  This was a huge blessing to us, so we are deeply grateful there are charities out there to provide things like this. 

Awesome cake!!  And oh so very yummy!!

Liam was a little freaked out by our loud voices singing him happy birthday!!

Trying so hard to blow out his candle...he did it...with a little help from mommy!

I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to Icing Smiles and Cakes Amore, in Plano, TX for providing Liam's Train cake....it was such a big hit and was SO yummy!  It was perfect...we could not have asked for anything more!  This was a huge blessing to us, so we are deeply grateful there are charities out there to provide things like this.

Lots of books and blankets for our children's hospital!

And also a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came and brought blankets and books to be donated to our children's hospital.  We have been on the receiving end of this type of blessing before, and it really makes a difference in the lives of families that are facing chronic or terminal illness with their child.  SO thank you!!!

It was such a special, special day for us, celebrating Liam's birthday.  Thank you for sharing in our memories!

********************************************************************************

Special prayer request - Remember my friend Vanessa, from last week's post?  Well, she had a small setback, and surgery was rescheduled for tomorrow morning.  Please pray for her surgery to be successful, her recovery to be smooth and for Gary's body to accept her kidney.