True Love

I feel like I just need to blog about my love for Gage today. I have been overwhelmed the past couple of days by my love for Gage. It amazes me how my heart continues to grow in love for this child every day. I feel like my heart may explode any minute with how full my heart is for him. It was a year ago from Monday, the 22nd, that we found out I was pregnant. It amazes me how my love for him began that day. It amazed me even more of how much I loved him already when I first saw him and held him in the NICU. How can you love someone so much that you just met?? My love for him has only grown, and I know it will continue to grow every day. It brings tears to my eyes knowing the honor that I have to be Gage's mother. The fact that God gave me a child to love and raise as one of His own blows my mind. It has also brought God's love for us to a whole new level. I know that I would do ANYTHING for Gage and his safety and his happiness. I can only imagine how much greater that truth is for us as God's children. I also can now partially understand the sacrifice of God giving his ONLY son to die in place for all the world. I will never fully understand God's love, grace, and mercy. But I cannot imagine Gage being born and knowing that the purpose of his birth was to die in place of someone else. What love that is!!! I'm sitting here trying to figure out the words to express how great my love is for my son....there are no words that will do it justice.

Snuggled close to my heart, where he will always be

Pumpkin Patch

We were finally able to visit a great pumpkin patch to take pictures of Gage...and of course, it was FREEZING outside. So I didn't get all the pictures I originally wanted, but I did manage to get a few good ones. We were in Albany for the day on Saturday to go to a friend's wedding that night. We made a trip to Mark's Melon Patch that afternoon. Gage did amazing considering it was nap time AND he had a poopie diaper. My parents and Aaron's mom and brother, Travis,  were able to spend the afternoon with us, so we took a some pictures with them as well. I'm going to put several pictures on this blog, but to view all the pictures from the pumpkin patch, you can go onto my facebook page where I have created an album with the rest of the pictures there. Enjoy!!

Family picture

Gage with Lollie

Gage with Uncle Travis

Gage with Papa J and Grandma

 

Halloween

Mommy's Little Pumpkin

We had an extended Halloween holiday. It started on Thursday night for us. We went to the church's trunk or treat. We decorated my trunk with a UGA theme! :) Gage wore his pumpkin outfit with a pumpkin hat. And if I must say so myself, he looked ADORABLE!! I have included a couple of pictures of that outfit. Then on Saturday, we went to Dublin's Downtown Spooktacular. There wasn't as much going on as we hoped, but we were able to see friends and it allowed us to get out of this house for a little bit, which is always nice for Gage and I. He wore the same pumpkin outfit to that as well. Sunday night was our fun night. We had a costume party that night at youth. I had been scrounging for ideas for a while that were fun and cheap. The key word being CHEAP.  I came across a kid's costume online of him being a crayon. It looked super easy to make. All that you used was a pillow case, black fabric paint, and construction paper.

Pumpkin booty

Daddy and Gage at trunk or treat

 So I decided we would be crayons! Choosing the colors was the fun part. We decided to be practical with the colors. Aaron would be blue and I would be pink. And what do those two colors mixed together make??? PURPLE!! So of course, Gage was purple. I made them Saturday night and they turned out great. I was so proud of my very first homemade costumes for our family. Aaron and I are already trying to get a head start on next year's Halloween costumes since Gage will be running around and able to have fun with it.

The crayon family!