Happy Birthday, Daylon!!!

This year wouldn't be the same without all of you! I'm doing kind of a photo blog so you all can feel like you're part of the party too! Here we go! Enjoy!

Daylon's door with all of his birthday cards (as of this morning)!

The Birthday Boy!


Violet, Caleb, Sadie and Keira sooo excited to sing for Daylon!



Our Family

Daylon and his nurse today, Tracy (we love her! She's on our BMT team)

Violet and Sadie coloring a birthday message for Daylon

Caleb and Keira mid-message

Dinosaur ice cream cake! The staff around her loved it!...it's ice cream! What's not to love!?

The kiddos enjoying their cake...maybe too much! They were so messy!

Daddy reading Daylon one of his new books

Daylon's first football. Look at Brian beam! "So he can get ready to play for USC when he's better."...yes, he's obsessed.

Daylon and all his presents. Thanks!

The kids learned about bone marrow transplants at a hospital activity today called "Blood Soup". Yumm. Hungry anyone?

Sleepy Angel

He made it!! Today is a day that we never thought we'd celebrate. A year ago this month we were told that our baby had a horrible disease that had no cure and no hope of winning. "If your son lives to be a year old, he won't want to be alive." . That's been a quote floating through our heads for 12 months. Daylon had a rough start...a very rough start. He is in pain pretty much every moment of his life. There was a time last fall when I knew I was being selfish to pray that he would live. I will always remember that Saturday when Brian and I decided to quit asking our Heavenly Father to allow him to live. All we felt we could ask for is that he be comfortable and know he was loved. This last year has been the most challenging and rewarding year of my life. I often joke with Brian that I feel like the oldest 27 year old in the world. I can't even describe the roller coaster our life has been, but I feel blessed to have been chosen to go through it. I believe that our Heavenly Father does not give us challenges we can't go through and I've had to remind myself of that daily. Our faith has been tested, but I am happy to report that we have endured. The roads not over, far from it actually, but I know that we can make it.

Daylon didn't smile and laugh as soon as most kids do, but it happened. There was several weeks before his chemo started, that in a lot of ways I felt like I had a normal baby. He was laughing, talking, and showing each day how smart he is. He was comfortable and he knew is was loved. That's all we've wanted; our prayers were answered. Everything else was extra. Now there are new reasons to be hopeful of course, and our prayers have changed once again, but we've learn to be aware that we are always doing what is best for him and not what we want to have happen. Daylon is so brave and so strong. When I look in his eyes I often see strength of someone far older than him. I am so blessed to be the mother of such a wonderful child. Ya know, I actually don't really mind that we're celebrating his birthday in the hospital because we're glad to be celebrating.