Happy Birthday Shelby!

We celebrated Shelby 1st birthday on Saturday the 24th! We went to Utah for the weekend and took some beautiful flowers to her grave and Travis and I spent over an hour sitting in the grass talking at the cemetery, it was really nice. Its amazing how cemeteries always used to make me uncomfortable but now I think they just hold a completely different meaning... our daughter is not in a cemetery, her body is but she is not and that takes all the fear and anxiety out of it and replaces it with comfort and so much respect for our Heavenly Father and the amazing sacrifice he made of giving up is Son so that we could have all the amazing blessing that we do.

We stayed at my parents house and did a few chores but that night we had cake, or should I say cakes... see Travis and I disagree on what would be Shelby's favorite so we had two cakes, a beautiful vanilla cake with chocolate drizzle and some cheesecake(I bet you can guess which one I chose!). I covered both with candles and we sang and then Travis blew out his choice and I blew out mine.

Overall it was a great weekend, don't get me wrong I for sure have my moments(just ask Travis) but we had a chance to just really focus on her and relive some of the most amazing memories. We love our daughter so much and thank Heavenly Father everyday for the opportunity we have to parents to such an amazing and special daughter of his. Happy Birthday Shelby, we love you and miss you so much it hurts but we will remember you always until we can finally be with you again.