My bday re-visited ;-)

So my bday was great this year! How could it not be, enjoying the best gift I have ever received! I put a bow on Alex's head to be even cuter. God, I love him!


Jay and I both worked a half day and then we went to lunch so I could get a pizza burger. It was as yummy as I remember it being from when my dad use to take me there years ago. Then we went to cut down our Christmas tree. Now, the weather that day was a very strange 50-something degrees. So I wasn't sure what to dress Alex in to make sure he was comfortable. THANK GOD I went with my gut and bundled him in the big cozy snowsuit my parents bought him - it was SO WINDY which made it oddly cold. The poor lil guy! We borrowed this backpack thingy to carry him in which he LOVED! But the wind was so strong he had tears rolling down his red cheeks and bubbles coming out of his nose and mouth - YUCK! But he was a trooper. And after a few minutes the wind did die down a bit.

After we found our tree and Jay did the manly thing of cutting it down, we headed back to take some family shots by the famous candy cane. This candy cane measures your kids so each year you can compare. Alex stands just over 2 feet. I wonder where he will be next year!

By the end of our trip to the tree farm, Alex had had enough. But Mommy was not done. I wanted to get one more picture in the Sanata sleigh. After this, we left and Alex knocked out in the car.
When we got home, we put up our tree, decorated it, and put it up again. Yep, you read that right - we had a hard time getting the tree to be stable and straight this year. We thought we had it but then minutes after decorating it, it began to fall. Luckily we were there to catch it. So we fixed it, well sorta - it still leans slightly to the right. But it's stable now and that's what is important.

Every year Jay and I get an ornament that symbolizes that year for us. Last year we actually got 2 ornaments - one was a Las Vegas sign since we did our 2 IVF attempts in Vegas, and the second was a big star - to symbolize our future child thru adoption. The thing is, we didn't do our 2nd IVF transfer until after the New Year, so we had no way of really knowing that our child would come to us thru adoption. Maybe we did know...maybe part of me has always known. I do know now that we were always meant to be adoptive parents. This year's ornament is Alex's Baby's First Christmas. I just love seeing that on our tree!

We got a note card from K the other day and in one part she wrote "He (Alex) was always intended for you. Everything turned out the way it was suppose to be." She truely feels, as we do, that from the moment Alex was conceived, he was meant to be our son. He was brought into this world for us. It feels so good to know that K feels that way, too! I hope she has a wonderful Christmas and that the New Year brings her lots of love and happiness.