Luca Hill : Luca's Shower of Love

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Luca's Shower of Love

On Saturday January 17th, we had Luca's Shower of Love thrown by his wonderful and beautifully hearted Godmother. There wasn't a detail that was left untouched and it all was incredibly special for our sweet boy. We were so touched by all the sweet mementos and the sweet keepsakes that honored Luca.

Thank you to everyone who came to shower us and Luca with crazy amounts of love.

Thank you as well to our wonderful friend Laurel and GodMama for all the pictures that we absolutely cherish.

A wonderful painter and dear friend of GodMama painted this beautiful canvas just for Luca. It has his signature lion and a tree of love that is is engraved with his initials. Throughout the party everyone stamped their fingerprints on to Luca's Tree of Love.

Rachel's step-mom Christi had a super neat mailbox created just for Luca so that everyone could send him their letters of sweet thoughts and prayers.

During prayer and doctors appointments, we carry a prayer stone just for Luca. GodMama handmade and stamped these prayer stones in honor of our Luca lion for everyone to take and pray along with us. They were so gorgeous and amazingly thoughtful.

Of course we had to have a yummy cake to celebrate the wonderful occasion!

We also had a delicious, and WE MEAN delicious, tray of customized sugar cookies to enjoy. They were so stinkin' good that Luca is even craving them right now! So yummy. They were adorably cute too and the talented lady who makes them is so creative and doesn't miss a detail. You can find her store on Facebook at Sweet Sugar Love Designs.

Luca's sweet scrumptious customized tray was filled with his Luca Lion, initials, Acrania/Anencephaly heart awareness ribbons, and crosses.

As a take home gift, each guest got a lion sugar cookie. Even Big Brother got a special cookie to take home that was made just for him!

During the party our wonderful friend Chelsea from our sweet Shirt Kong family arrived. She has such a beautiful soul and a giant heart. She has helped us tremendously in helping to spread awareness about this devastating defect and to tell Luca's story.

We were so thrilled to see her!

And that sneaky girl had a special gift for us,

We were so surprised to see a jersey with Luca's name and jersey number 9 (just like Daddy!) on the back. It brought us to tears.

But then, we opened the jersey all the way up, and there on Luca's jersey, was all of the Saint Louis Blues autographs. If you've been keeping up with us, you know what HUGE hockey fans we are. The jersey for Luca was an amazing gift in itself and then for Chelsea to go out of her way, along with her Mama, to get the Blues signatures was beyond thoughtful. Thank you Chelsea and all who helped with this awesome gift. We cant wait to wrap Luca up in it when we meet him!

Huge hugs for our favorite Chelsea...

Somethings awfully funny...;)

Lucababy wearing his jersey :)

Luca was showered with tons of love, sweet keepsakes, and many donations to Luca's Bright Light Fund to help with his medical bills, his foundation, and research for Acrania and Anencephaly.

We also received a shirt design from Rachel's Dad and step mom Christi, for Team Luca on his birthday. It was designed by Nathan from Shirt Kong and embodies the spirit of Luca's fight with Acrania and Anencephaly. The quote is the battle cry from the movie Robin Hood and it will be printed on gray shirts to represent our Team Luca battle armor and our will to fight for Luca and all these babies and their families facing these diagnosis's.In the background is the lion image from Luca's gold shirts. In the mane of the lion are the words bravery, faith, love, and courage...some of the words that describe our beautiful baby boy. We cant wait to see the final product!