How Quickly Time Passes

These last few weeks have been rather crazy and very hectic. Time has just slipped by me at the rate of hurricane Irene hitting the coast. So much has happened and so much has been left off my blog that I'm not even sure where or how I should pick up the pieces.
The weather has been warm and pleasant and the family has all been outside enjoying summer while it lasts. I have to admit that I love being outside, having the sun warm my skin is especially soothing. I've always joked that I was either a sunflower or a lizard in a previous life. Just to lean back and feel the suns warmth and to watch the blue sky is more than I can ask for, not that I give myself much time for frivolous indulgences.
I can't let the time have slipped by without adding a snippet about a very special day in the garden. You see, a year ago we welcomed the most beautiful little flower into our life. She was a small little flower, dainty and delicate but her time in the garden of our lives was to be short and bitter-sweet. She was wisked away almost as quickly as she came but her beauty, purity and innocence left us all in awe for how she affected us.
It has been one year since that day and we celebrated her 1st Birthday in Heaven. We gathered in the front yard and had pizza and cake and other fun stuff. Sweet Savannah's brothers and sister, along with her cousins raced around the yard laughing. She had her Mommy and Daddy, Aunt and Uncle, Grandpa and Grandma and 2 very special, very dear friends there, to let her know we all loved her.  It was a fun time, a happy time and that's the way it was meant to be. We all had purple balloons and wrote little messages to our heavenly birthday girl, then on the count of three, we released our heaven bound balloons with our special Birthday messages of Love, Caring and the sheer Joy of having been able to have her in our lives, if only for a moment.
Happy Birthday Baby Girl! You will always be in my Heart and in my Garden.