Happy Birthday, Lawson! {3 years}

On May 28, 2011, we celebrated Lawson's 3rd birthday!

I am way behind on this posting, but it is certainly worthy of posting no matter the date.

It is so hard to believe that it has been three years since we traveled to the hospital on that beautiful crisp morning in May, just the two of us, and then three days later returned as a family of three.

Where has the time gone?

=1 day old=

Lawson's 1st birthday!

-Lawson and daddy-

Lawson's 2nd Birthday!

-Enjoying his blue sucker from Friday Sucker Day at his school-

Blue suckers are his fave!

We miss you, Mandy! :(

Lawson's 3rd Birthday!

-Enjoyed lunch and birthday cake at Pizza Hut in Martin-

=Me and Lawson on the morning of his birthday=

On a side note, both boys and I received haircuts on Lawson's birthday.  This was Emmitt's first haircut and although Mrs. Amber tried her best, it didn't go so well.  Russ and I have since cut it three times.  He doesn't seem too bothered by it here at home.  But here's to documenting another "first".

Isn't my hair getting long?!  :)

The birthday boy ready for a haircut.

A small birthday party for lunch and cake at Pizza Hut.

Our guests were Nana, Daddy Bell and Ms. Anita, Aunt Julie, and then me and Emmitt.

Aunt Julie and Lawson

Her hair is growing, too!

Me, Emmitt, and Lawson

Later that afternoon we played outside at Grandmother and Granddad's.  Nana bought him some water guns and he experienced his first water gun fight.  He got with it very quickly.  :)

He will probably kill me over the underwear pics in the years to come.

Russ, Emmitt, and Lawson

{I PROMISE they have clothes... promise.}  :)

Another birthday cake at Grandmother and Granddad's

White cake with white icing, requested by Lawson... was actually very good... kind of like wedding cake. :)

I added a few of his bulldozers for the sake of being a boy. 

Imagine this... Emmitt devoured his birthday cake!!

And now for his birthday gift.

He is all about "surprises" these days.  He will tell you to close your eyes as he counts to like fifteen... (ugh) and then he screams, "SURPRISE!!

So, we gave him an eye-closing-counting-surprise!

The excitement in the following pictures is priceless!

SURPRISE!

A new John Deere bicycle!!!

It was the perfect gift!  We walk every night so that he can ride his bike.  He can go pretty fast and loves to use the brakes.  That is actually the first thing he tells people when they ask or comment about his bike... "it has brakes!"  :)

He will still randomly thank us for his bike.  He really does love it!

And lastly, the Thursday before his birthday he had a party at his school.

Once again, I allowed him to pick his cake and icing flavor.  He chose white cake with strawberry icing.  Sounds good, but of course the icing was PINK.  He then picked out the sports candy toppers... so totally cool according to him, and he was very excited about sharing them with his friends.  Oh, well.

At school with his friends...

Lawson, Jora, Ben, Hunter...

And then once again, Ben, Hunter, and then David, and Lyla

~Lyla, his sweet little girl friend~

And that concludes his 3rd birthday celebration!

I am so thankful for his little life... for on his special day, May 28, 2008, we became parents and God filled our lives with a new joy... a joy we could have never imagined.

Thank you, God, for Lawson.  Thank you for breathing life into his precious body and for giving him to us.

We love you, Lawson Bragg, and look forward to what lies ahead!