Happy FIRST Birthday Sarah Grace!

March 30, 2010...

Happy FIRST birthday to our first born daughter, Sarah Grace!

We have been so blessed...especially this past year!  Sarah Grace is a beautiful, happy, healthy, smiling, funny little girl who has enriched our lives in more ways than we could have imagined. 

Sarah Grace's first year...

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  born on March 30, 2009 at 6:06 pm weighing 9pounds 9ounces in VA
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  touched the ocean with her toes when she was 6 weeks old
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  slept through the night when she was about 7 weeks old (hallelujah!)
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  met so many wonderful people who adore her
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  watched her daddy graduate from medical school (she was 2 months old)
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  moved from Virginia to North Carolina in June of 2009
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  baptized September 2009 in our new home church ~ 5 1/2 months old
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  ate lots of yummy "first foods" -- and is continuing to enjoy new foods
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  traveled across the country (in an airplane) to Seattle, WA with her Mom and Dad when she was 6 months old -- she was a great little traveler
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  crawled and is beginning to walk
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  celebrated her FIRST birthday with family and friends

SG's very first pictures...in utero -- about 13 weeks--9/10/2008

Our first family photo -- in the hospital where SG was born 3/30/2009

SARAH GRACE...pictures through her first year...

NEWBORN --

1st MONTH

2nd MONTH

3rd MONTH

4th MONTH

5th MONTH

6th MONTH

 

7th MONTH

 

8th MONTH

9th MONTH

10th MONTH

11th MONTH

12th MONTH

ONE YEAR!!! March 30, 2010!!!

We've been so blessed to have shared Sarah Grace's very first year of life with her.  She's such a precious baby girl and we are so excited to see what the next year brings!


Sarah Grace loves to...smile...play with Daisy and Daisy's toys...take long walks with Mommy...ride on Daddy's shoulders...read "Goodnight Moon"...eat everything in sight (she seems to enjoy eating everything she's tasted thus far!)...sleep...help load the dishwasher (and by load, we mean she climbs in it!)...swing...be pushed in the cart at the store...look at pictures...splash in the water...pull all her toys out of the toybox...cuddle with her "lovie" and her "dolly"...crawl on Mommy and Daddy's big bed...be tickled...listen to birds chirp and dogs bark...brush her teeth...drink from a sippy cup...fingerpaint...open the blinds beside her crib and look outside (we call her our weather girl!)...laugh...



"Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward." Psalm 127:3




We'll post some picture from her little birthday party soon as well as her "stats" from her 12 month/1 year check up at the pediatrician!

The Earth is blooming!

Happy SPRING!

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens

Here's what we've been doing so far this SPRING...

SG is practicing walking...

We made play-doh jewelry and learned about colors...

We ate at Chico's -- SG had her first chip!

Gliding with Opa...3/13/2010

Swinging with Oma...

Getting ready for EASTER!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY ~ March 17, 2010

Daisy and SG taking it all in...

Wrightsville Beach, NC ~ 3/19/2010

Getting ready for summer...beach baby!

Christi and Jack's BUSCH GARDEN'S &

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, VA TRIP

~ March 26-27, 2010 ~

Loch Ness Monster!

Riding the train around the park

(we were the only people on the train...

we heard there were only about 1,000 people at the park...

so basically we had the park to ourselves!)

Lunch at Shield's Tavern ~ Colonial Williamsburg

Saturday, March 27, 2010
DAFFODIL FIELD PICTURES...

A little of this and that...

More snow for us in NC - A Valentine's Surprise!  This time it was beautiful. white. powdery. light. airy. cold. - February 13, 2010

We made some very yummy and very sweet snowcream...Sarah Grace helped stir and then before we knew it, she had a fist full of snowcream in her mouth!  Such a fun memory...we made extra to keep in the freezer...a sweet taste of snowcream (several days later) is a great reminder of that wonderful, cold, snowy, weekend!

Little Miss exploring with a spoon.  She's got the concept of "spoon in mouth" but then it's open ended after that.  She can dip her spoon into something like applesauce, then brings the applesauce covered spoon to her mouth, then eats it, then hands the spoon back to us, or throws it to Daisy...Daisy and SG are becoming quite a team.

Ever heard the song "Baby Shark"?  Well we think Sarah Grace really likes it...not sure why.  It all started during her bathtimes.  She has a cute (I mean scary) towel that looks like a shark.  The hooded part of the towel looks like the shark is eating baby's head.  Anyways, we started singing this song after bathtime (I guess we wanted to take a walk down campfire song lane) and she just burst into laughter.  Maybe because it has repetition or because she thinks Mommy and Daddy look funny doing the motions...who knows.

Sarah Grace was 11 months old at the end of February 2010...it's hard to believe we're about to celebrate her FIRST birthday!  This picture was from a day when we were playing in the living room.  She seemed really interested in this "jumper" toy (though we hadn't used it in a while), so I placed her in it and she went to town jumping up and down in it.  She enjoyed bouncing in it as a "baby" - but now as she's gotten older, she seemed to be exploring it in a new light...she can jump higher, she's more interactive with the lights/sounds, and she loves to swivel in the seat!

We hosted (along with some other family members) a baby shower for Anna and Justin...on March 6, 2010 at our home.  Below are some pictures from the event.  It was a beautiful day filled with the celebration of new life and lots of family and friends!  We are all excited to meet their baby boy this summer! (he's due late June 2010!) 

A little picture of Christi and Jack...out for date night...ice skating.  Although we hadn't ever been ice skating together, we'd both ice skated in the past.  It had been quite a few years since either of us had skated...but we laced up our skates and hit the ice!  After a few trips around the rink...we looked like old pros...well almost!  We had a great time "re-learning" how to skate.  We had a wonderful time "chillin" (literally)with each other!