Oh what a year!

FINE PRINT: pretend you're reading this and it's the beginning of Jan, not almost the middle of Feb

I've been thinking over the past few weeks how crazy it is to look back over the past year. A year is a good amount of time, but each one seems to go faster than the one before - so essentially, it's often a short amount of time. I cannot believe so much has taken place in our lives over the past year - wow! I don't know that we'll ever have a year where so much changes in our lives. It has surely been filled with excitement, fear, happiness, a little sadness, apprehension...It's kind of amazing to think about and honestly makes me daydream a bit when I start thinking about it.

So here's a few vintage Charlotte pictures:

I realized they're all of her sleeping, oh well

Charlotte's First Birthday Party

It was so fun to Celebrate Charlotte's First Birthday with everyone while we were home. She loved all the presents and above all her cake (mainly the pink icing).

Charlotte's First Christmas!

The first portion of our big trip home of course was Christmas! We had a blast celebrating the holiday this year at home with all of our family and friends and the best part was celebrating this year with Charlotte!

I could write a novel here about the fun we had, the memories we made, and all of the stuff we did while we were home for the holiday - but I'm SURE you'd all be bored after the first sentence and start scanning for the pictures. So...I'll list a few of the Christmas highlights:

• The Plane Ride - Charlotte was so adorable walking through the airport saying "hi" to everyone she saw.
• Gifts - Charlotte received such wonderful presents - thanks everyone! Among her favorites: Elmo, her cell phone, her Bitty Baby, the sound puzzles, Tad, of course books, and her adorable new clothes. I do have to add though that she had just about as much fun ripping up tissue paper as she did playing with her new toys
• Santa (or my mom & dad) brought me a sewing machine! I'm so excited and currently working on my first project - stay tuned, I'll be posting lots about my beginner sewing projects & adventures
• Family - Charlotte had a blast playing with her cousins. We don't get the chance to see her interact with other kids very often, it was so fun to watch her having fun and interacting with her cousins

A Belated Merry Christmas to all and we feel so blessed. It was really an amazing year to look back on. Thanks to everyone & enjoy our photos!

Call me a "Slacker"

Please accept this as my formal apology to our followers and fans for my lack of posting (I've recently found out about many people who love reading about Charlotte and our lives in Texas - I had no clue so many people were following us). Last month was absolutely crazy with work, holiday happenings and traveling. I have so so many things to blog about and so many fun Charlotte pictures to share. I'm going to work hard this week to get Christmas, First Birthday and some fun start of 2010 stuff posted.
Stay tuned...and thanks for not being mean to me about my lack of posts :)