Preparing for Luke's 4th Birthday

Tomorrow is our little guy's fourth birthday.  Early this Saturday afternoon we will be dropping off some birdseed hearts  at the cemetery for visitors to hang on their trees at home in remembrance of Luke.  Feel free to leave a note in Luke's birthday card journal - it would mean a lot to us.  We'll have a pen there, as well as some tootsie rolls which I craved like crazy when I was pregnant with Luke.  Here's a picture below of me and Luke, about two weeks before he was born.

If you haven't been to the cemetery before, you can find directions at http://www.mtelliott.com/resurrection.html. Or you can follow Will's directions: upon entering the cemetery, take the tree lined entrance road until it ends. Turn right. Take this road until it ends and turn left. Go past one block. The second block on the left is where Luke is at. Go halfway up that block on the lefthand side and about five to six rows back. He is in section 23, plot 731. We have a smaller pine needle grave blanket covering Luke's grave. The cemetery is open from 7 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. daily. If you need more specifics on where Luke's plot is, you can ask at the office whose hours are from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturday but is closed on Sunday. We will have the card there through Sunday night. Because the cemetery doesn't like any artificial decorations, the ziplock with the card, tootsie rolls and birdseed hearts will be tucked into the grave blanket just below Luke's headstone.

Thanks for all of your thoughts, prayers and love and for all of our friends and family who aren't afraid of our tears and bring up Luke's name in the sweetest ways throughout these last four years.  I aspire to be as wonderful a friend and family member as you are.