2024 – All About Love for Guillianna and Elijah

Happy Birthday Guillianna!

Nana December 4, 2024 0Comments

Happy Birthday to the amazing person who first made me a Nana! Your Poppy and I will forever be grateful for the chance to be your grandparents and for the time we spent with you as your parents were serving this country and creating the life you and your brother have today !

Seeing your face yesterday was amazing wasn’t it ? Hearing about school and your friends- Hazel too! The best. We hope the day will make your heart feel full of love and may the year ahead be one of the best yet. We are so proud of the amazing person you are and of your accomplishments.

You are a part of our every day – with photo frames showing Great Grandma your images of your faces every day and that crazy beautiful smile of yours – well it makes the sun shine for her every day !

Poppy and I are looking forward to all the wonderful things that are ahead for you in the coming year and send you so much love, so many wishes for laughter and happiness always.

We love you – to the moon and back, forever and always …

❤️Nana and 🍪Poppy❤️

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIJAH❤️

Nana September 21, 2024 0Comments

Long ago – but so nice to reminisce – So much laughter, so much fun so many smiles so many great memories for us! a huge Thank you to your parents for having a son whose celebrating a very – happy BIRTH day! So grateful since this guy surly makes the world such a better place !

Happy Birthday Elijah – 2024

Dear Elijah –

Time keeps going by and our wishes for you remain the same. Wishing you all things good. Wishing you and your family happiness always. We wish you to know how loved you are and while memories of us are fading away for you as you grow older for us they remain such a beautiful part of our lives. Your laughter your smile your joy the memories of the early years will always be so treasured. I’ll put a little burst of the photos showing the joy we have inside because of you that you shared with everyone while you lived here. We will always hope you continue to be full of happiness and laughter with your family and friends. That you continue to do great at school and do so many things in life that make you happy. Your mom and dad surely are so very proud of you and always know there are so many of us in the Mitten and other places that love you dearly and are sending great birthday wishes for you ! Make this year- and every year – simply amazing.

We love you- your sister and family to the moon and back – forever and always ….

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and 🍪Poppy ❤️

The best times full of love and smiles beyond measure !

So much love for you today, tomorrow and always! Happy birthday ! ❤️🍪❤️

This site was originally written when Guillilanna was born. During her parents deployment and training, we would keep Guillianna in the Mitten. Then Elijah was born and he too was a frequent flyer to the Mitten. They lived with us on and off for nine years. Over the last deployment to Korea and during the past three years where in the kids lived with us for three consecutive years, the internet and this site was not really used to communicate with their parents, FACETIME was quick and easy. Their dad recently got out of the Army and they were relocated. We have not seen or talked with Eli or Guillianna for months. Last we saw them on FaceTime was May 2018. Last we held them December 2017, just after Christmas. Yet the reality is THIS IS NOT ABOUT just OUR BROKEN HEARTS- it is about theirs, ours and our entire family! for these kids who are so small and innocent, they have had a major change in thier lives. It is our hope that the journaling of our time together, and the and the new love letters for them will one day allow them to truly know the depth of love we ALL here in the Mitten have for them.

This site is also a special gift for our daughter, it documents all kinds of small details and images for her to keep, love and enjoy! These memories encompass nine and six years of the lives of her children! A true gift, that one day she may actually appreciate and have gratitude for. She doesn’t think of us as her parents at present, but maybe in the future, she will sit and reflect on all these memories, maybe she will see the love and dedication that she herself was given because of our love for her. If not, this journal, can hopefully one day allow Guillianna and Elijah to see and feel the truth, the love, and they will realize the amazing impact they have had on all of us here in the Mitten, and they will feel the love of all those who they spent their lives with, before embarking on the new journey they have begun. Friends, family alike have shared in nearly a decade of thier lives and all wish for the family to be happy. If it is a parents right and philosophy to “cut people out of your life like a kindergartener cuts out paper snowflakes” and raise their children to feel the same, this new set of love letters are written with the hope that in time the innocent will feel the love they HAVE always had, and the love they can ALWAYS carry it with them.

Happy Birthday Guillianna!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIJAH❤️

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