Rare moment...

My little mom heart was thrilled to have just a minute
or two of snuggle time with Evan the other day.
He was super sleepy and let me hold him
for a few sweet minutes. He is so active that this
just does not happen. So I whispered to Andy,
"GET THE CAMERA" and he did. :)

The Audacity of Hope

I'm a bit late in posting this. It was inauguration day
when all of this happened... thus the inspiration
for the title.

Now if this doesn't show that anything is possible,
I'm not sure what does.

I was watching the inaugural speech and heard
Evan talking... looked over to find this!
I raced to get my camera and then thought to
myself, now this is hope I can believe in.

We are moving towards a loving relationship
one day at a time...

One great year!

This past weekend we celebrated Evan's first birthday!

I can't believe my baby is one!
We had such a fun time thinking back over his first
year and celebrating his abundant joy and energy.

Getting ready for the party:
(I was so excited I could hardly sit down all day!)

cake-check

party favors-check

food-check

family and friends-check

birthday boy-check

fun fluffy "I'm one" hat-check

oops...
Here goes....

presents-yay!

we love our books!What a special birthday weekend it was.