BelAirions

Before life was forever changed for our family... we enjoyed a nice weekend with everyone as "BelAirions"! We drove there late Friday night and stay until Monday morning... when we left that Monday morning... we had no idea that in less than 24hrs, Adam would be gone forever...

While in Bel Air, we visited with Mom-mom and Pop-pop and PPJ! We had a nice lunch and afterwards PPJ, Gabe, Aunt Amy and I walked to this neat pond...where PPJ kinda sorta taught Gabe how to spit...Thanks a lot!

After visiting with everyone, we returned to Grammy's and had a nice family dinner...

(and Gabe got into Grammy's bag of potatoes)

These are the last pictures taken of Adam...had I known that I would have taken a thousand more!

He is wearing his Hollister tee and doing what he loved most...EATING :)

As dinner was winding down, Gabe was starting to get restless...mom suggested that Adam take Gabe down to feed the horses... something in me just knew that I should join them... at that time I knew that I should help mom clear the table and do the dishes... but I excused myself and told Adam to wait up. Adam, Gabe, and I walked down to feed the horses together...stopping along the way to play some wiffle ball. We fed the two horses an entire bag of carrots...and then decided that we wanted to check out the house that they were building next to mom's. The three of us hiked over there and spent a fair amount of time walking around the house and trying to figure out what the different room were. In the end, we determined that mom's house was way cooler :-) On the way back to mom's house, Gabe legs grew tired and he sat down and refused to walk anymore...Uncle Adam went over to him and picked him up. He carried him all the way back to the house.... with a huge smile on his face! There is no denying that Uncle Adam loved his little nephew Gabe...and vice versa! Just that weekend, Gabe learned how to say "Aaaaadum" and would stand at the bottom of the stairs and hollar his name....

Zoey also came to her Grammy's and had lots of fun playing with the other dogs.

On Sunday, it was a little chilly and windy but we decided to take Gabe and his bestest buddy Dominique to the playground. She taught him how to go down the BIG slides all by himself :)

I can not even begin to tell you how glad I am that we made this trip to BelAir. It was a great weekend, spent with family and friends...a weekend that will be burned in my mind forever...

A dedication

Always Loved...Never Forgotten

I just want to thank all of you for all of your phone calls,facebook msgs, e-mails, text, cards and visits. I can't tell you how grateful my family and I are to be surrounded by all of this love. One can never have enough support during a time like this. To say that the last 36 hours have been difficult would be an understatement. These have been the worse 36 hours any of us have ever had to face. While I had not experienced how much love the heart can hold, until Gabriel was born.... I can honestly say that until this tragedy, I had no idea how much pain the heart can hold. This has been devastating to all of us..and we are all continuing to vacillate between immense sadness and numbness.

Although we may never know what happened that fatal night, we have been doing everything possible to seek some form of closure. We have spoken to the paramedics that were there with Adam that night. We have visited the crash site numerous times...just trying to make sense of this. We have torn apart what very little remains of his car...looking for CD fragments and anything that just might bring us closer to him. (I never thought I would be so happy to find his chewing gum) We have cried, laughed, and prayed. We have even shared a private (and very tearful) moment at the funeral home, with Adam. We have reminisced over pictures and mom and I have even been make ourselves comfortable in his hollister sweatpants and t-shirts...I can't tell you how much I love the smell of his clothes...

I know the next couple days are going to be especially difficult as we lay Adam to rest, but I just hope and pray that with God, family, and friends...we will get through this.

I have added viewing and service information to my facebook page. I am looking forward to seeing so many of you, I just wish it didn't have to be under these circumstances.

Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we continue to pray for all of those that are grieving the loss of a great son, grandson, uncle, nephew, and friend.

We will always love you Adam!

Cell Phone Archives

There is this cute little train that takes kids on a ride around the mall. Everytime Gabe sees it he waves, screams "HI", and says "Choo Choo"! Well I may have made a mistake by letting him ride this! Now I better make sure I have $3.00 cash everytime we go to the mall!!!

But the ear to ear grin on your child's face...priceless!

Picnic lunches and backyard fun :-)

70 and sunny! Thank You! We are tired of the cold...tired of the wind...and tired of the rain! On this 70 and sunny day, Gabe and I enjoyed our very first picnic lunch in our very own backyard. I have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time!

After our picnic lunch...we enjoyed some backyard fun and I got to test out my early Mothers's Day gift (Thanks Andy!)... A brand new BEACH chair! Wahoo!

Gabe needed to have his very own chair too :)

Someone is lookin' super fly...

...in their 3 piece suit :-)

Poor Gabey Baby

Gabey Baby has yet another double ear infection :-(
He has had a high fever... he won't eat anything... and he is just plain miserable. He goes between crying uncontrollably and just laying their lifeless... It breaks my heart...
And to make matters worse...I couldn't be there to hold him...
Work has been busy busy busy... so busy that Maw and I had to swap houses for a few nights. (so I could be closer to work...work..sleep...repeat)
I guess if mommy can't be there to care for you when you're sick... a Maw and a Daddy is the next best thing.
Luckily, I received lots of phone updates and photos.
Here are a few photos I received...

At the doctors...

The doctor's office has a cool fire truck exam table...

Daddy took him for a happy meal while waiting for his antibiotics...

Still not better Mom...

Finally I am home (for a day) and my baby is back in my arms. He's still pretty miserable... so I think tomorrow will be a pajama...cartoons...snuggle on the couch kind day ;)

Boys and their trucks

Andy sent me these pictures while I was at work...

It was a beautiful 70 degree March day. A day where Gabe could wear shorts and a short sleeve tee. A day where knees were skinned and friendships blossomed. A day where 3 little boys could play and drive their pick up trucks.

As I look at these photos, I can't help but think about all of the fun and trouble these 3 boys are going to have together in the days, months, years to come :-)

Happy St.Patricks Day

Today was a great day...

to take my "gardening" tools for a ride...

to take off down the hill and make mommy chase me...

to collect rocks...

to check on the progress of the new house in our neighborhood...

to be silly...

to talk back to mommy...

and to play with sand toys...

Today was another great day that mommy and Gabe got to spend the whole day having fun and playing together :-)

Another First...

Gabe had yet another first tonight... his very first haircut! It was a little difficult for me to watch his sweet baby hair being cut...especially since just 6 months ago he was B-A-L-D :-)

But his hair was starting to look quite shaggy and growing over his ears! This picture of his wild and crazy hair was taken last weekend at Landon's birthday party.

And here is my little man...

He was quite curious as to what this woman was doing to him. But overall he was pretty good... it's amazing what you can get him to do with a little bribery!

Thank goodness for left over Valentine's Day candy ;-)

Good Job Gabe! You are looking oh so handsome!

Landon turns ONE!

Gabe's buddy Landon turned ONE! These two kids go waaaaay back ;)

Happy Birthday Cutie! We love you!

Plumpton Park Zoo

We met Grammy, Grandpa, and Aunt Amy at the Plumpton Park Zoo. It's a smaller local zoo that has some really cool animals!

This was probably Gabe's favorite animal! He loves loves loves cats...and we couldn't believe how close this little barn cat let him get :)

I loved this little pony! Don't you think Gabe needs a little pony!?!
(just kidding)

We ended up talking to the zoo owner for quite some time... and he took us to pet the little zebra, zoey :)

(I can't help but look at this llama and think of the cadbury egg commercial...where he is trying to be a bunny rabbit ;)