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.

One sweet photoshoot

Saturday we had another photo shoot with Amy Free who can capture sweet moments on film. You know how you go on vacation and are sometimes disappointed in the pictures you come home with? You think, "it just was so much prettier in real life". Well, its kind of like the opposite with Amy. Evan was having an off afternoon and was pretty cranky... but these are the moments she somehow found and captured! Go Amy! Check it out here: Blue Bucket Photography

There is one set right away, and another little sneak preview a few posts before. :) That's our boy at almost one!

Cozy Weekend

Last weekend it was c-c-cold outside.
So we enjoyed a cozy weekend inside.

Us by the fire:
(Gus showing off his pearly whites)

Reading with daddy:

Snug as a bug in a rug...

Snowy Carolina Day

I woke up to this!

I could hardly sleep last night wondering if it
was really going to snow. I was
delighted to see this view out through our windows this morning.

Snapped a few shots throughout the day:

Of course I had to document Evan and his first snow day!

I think he likes it?