Happy 11th Birthday Elijah

My baby is 11 years old. What??? I can't believe it! His birthday fell right into our vacation to Jellystone in Kentucky, so we had a couple celebrations for him. The pictures with the cupcake were taken in the cabin during our vacation.

Precious moments 

with my baby. 💓💓

Jumping on the big jumping pillow on his birthday!

Happy Birthday my beautiful boy!

 I love you more than you can imagine!

July Randomness

Caleb, Elijah, and me floating at the lake.

Caleb, happily washing the windows.

Liam, in his happy place. 💦💦🌞

Jimmy getting carried away w/ the sunscreen. 😂

Elijah, in his happy place.

Jimmy, being silly at Meijer.

Oliver and me. 💓

Jimmy took my pic.😊

Water balloons!

Next up, our vacation!!

4th of July 2017

My boy's names

All of my boy's names are absolutely perfect to me. I admit, James (Jimmy) was of course named after his Dad, but it's also a name from the Bible and that makes it especially meaningful to me. Benjamin came to me about a week before I was due. to give birth with Benjamin. Up until then, he was going to be named Jacob. But, something changed. I just woke up one day and the name Benjamin came to me. I have loved that name ever since. Caleb was a name that I had heard years ago, and hoped to name one of my children, but Jim (my husband at the time) didn't like it. Years later, we were divorced and I was adopting a little boy, as a single Mom. I knew all along that his name would be Caleb. Caleb Anatoly. Anatoly was his Russian name. Then came Elijah. Elijah's Russian name was Denis, pronounced Denise. I did not want to keep it was his middle name, so I chose a Russian name, Nikolai. Elijah Nikolai. My 5th son would be named Liam. His Russian name was Ivan, another name I wasn't fond of. So, I chose Josiah as his middle name, from the Bible and also named after a little boy I never knew. A little boy who had spina bifida, who died at the age of two. He was the son of my friend Renee Loux. I'm not sure why I decided to make this post tonight. I wanted my boys to know that their names are my absolute favorite. I love them and I am proud of them, and their names might not come from a long list of family's names before them, but they were and are their Mama's most favorite names ever. Their names fill their Mama's heart and soul. 💓💓💓💓💓