Happy 14th Birthday Colton

Writing letters to Colton

Daddy helping Wyatt write a letter to his brother.

 

Happy 14th Birthday Colton!!

I can't believe how much my life has changed in the last 14 years since Colton came to our family.  This year I wanted to do something different for his birthday.  I bought a bunch of balloons to leave at his grave and I bought a balloon for each of us family members.  We sat down and wrote Colton a little note and tied it to the balloons and let them go.  I wish I could have gotten pictures of our balloon launch.  It ended up that our notes were a little heavy and weighed the balloons down plus it was windy and raining and the balloons didn't fly as well.  We ended up taking the notes off but by the time I was able to take a picture most of the balloons had floated away.  Good thing to remember for next year...write smaller notes.  

I didn't really think that writing notes to Colton would have been so emotional for the girls.  Even though he was born and died before any of them were born they still feel the effects of him not being with us and miss him immensely.  We definitely feel the void of him not being here.