HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY LINDSAY!

Here are some photos of our baby girl before we were BLOGGERS. This is her at 3 months expressing her opinion!
How you know your child is ready for "solid food".
Halloween '06 (four months of age)
MY FIRST COSTUME!
One Tired Cow!
My Little Turkey!
Lindsay's First Visit with Santa
All the grandkids with Santa...hoping to do one of these again this year.
Christmas morning under the tree!


I wanted to post a few of the photos some of you have not seen. We started blogging in January so these are some photos from before then.

We'll hopefully get some pics up tonight of her dinner at the house and her cupcake smash.

I still can't believe today has been one year since our beautiful angel came into our lives. It went by so quickly. I can't imagine life before her anymore. We waited a long time for you Lindsay and you were worth every bit of the wait!

Happy Birthday Baby!
Love,
Mommy & Daddy

A little Nostalgia...a little freak out...1 day to go!!

Already a HAPPY BABY at 3 days old!

Me and My Bundle of Joy!!

ONE DAY TIL Lindsay turns 1 year old!!!

I have to admit I'm freaking out. I can't believe it's been a year!

I've been crazy busy with work and at home preparing for a small family dinner tomorrow night and we're going out of town again part of this weekend. Lindsay's birthday party is this Sunday and we're having a bash. It's grown close to 30 people. It's just both sides of the family and a few close friends. We figured this year we wanted everyone together at one big celebration. I'm sure as she gets older she'll milk it and have the "friend" party, the "family" party etc. Mike and I are SO excited to have all of our family together in one place for a big celebration of Lindsay! (Thanks Pat & Steve!)

I'm planning on posting more pics this evening....stay tuned!

Father's Day '07

Derek and Lindsay say "GO DAD! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!" Cousins!
Adam strikes a pose and shows off a fresh boo boo.
Lindsay & Mommy (my tan hasn't peeled yet!)
Any requests?

"Sonata in G? Sure...NO PROBLEM..."
Baby Prodigy!
"Heart & Soul"
Everyone enjoyed Derek & Lindsay's duet.
Derek has had several years of piano. We figure we can save $ on lessons and just let her cousin teach her piano. She seems to like it!
Ah, daddy daughter time after dinner... (photo taken by cousin Derek-Thanks D!)


Lindsay hands grandpa his card.
Grandma & Lindsay read some cards together.
Mommy gave Lindsay & Daddy a book to read together.
Here is the big gift....aka...THE FREE gift...well, I did have to go buy a frame. It's a caricature of Lindsay I had drawn the day we went to the zoo.

Check it out...pretty cute eh?

I put this photo up for you Cup of Joe...it's Derek's blanket that Linds is playing with here. It's similar to Joe's although Joe's may even be worse than Derek's and he's 8 years old. Ouch, sorry this was supposed to make you feel better...moving on....
Here are Lindsay and I at the zoo. This is during her "sitting" for the drawing.
"Oh goodness...I hope he draws my good side"
The final product.
We'd like to say Happy Father's Day to all the dad's in our life.

Hope everyone had a special day!

Mike-Happy First Father's Day....I hope we made it memorable and thanks for being the best husband & daddy a mommy & baby could ever want!

Love you!!!!

In honor of your First Father's Day- A DADDY MONTAGE FOR YOU!

First Day as a DAD! Daddy's Girl Already!
Daddy Kisses are the best!
Love from Daddy's Little Pumpkin
This one of mommy's faves...
Lindsay & Daddy in Ellijay
Daddy keeps me safe

Playtime with Daddy
Having fun with Dad
Lindsay loves to go for a ride on Daddy's shoulders!
Another of mommy's fave's
I love Daddy because he shares!
HAPPY FIRST FATHER'S DAY MIKE!

We love you!!
Lindsay & Mommy

June 15, 2007- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!

Here is what Mike and I like to call our "signature" wedding picture.
It's been five years and I would still pick the same dress (and guy) over again! :)
Here we are with our cake top on our first anniversary!
Last year on our fourth anniversary we were trying to imagine what next year would be like...
... here we are one year later and it's just incredible!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABE!
I LOVE YOU!

Anniversary, Father's Day, Lindsay's Birthday

I guess in all the excitement of the birth last year I didn't realize that June is now DECEMBER.
Mike and I both have Christmas week birthdays and his brother does too. Now we have the major shopping season in June too. Our anniversary is June 15 (TOMORROW)! Father's Day will always fall right there and sometimes ON our anniversary. Lindsay's birthday is June 20 (NEXT WED- can't believe it) and will also fall on Father's Day about once every six years or so.
How did I not realize this???

So, I've been scrambling this week to buy Father's Day, birthday & anniversary cards and gifts. I realize as Lindsay gets older it's going to be all about her anyway. The birthdays are only going to get more expensive, right? So HERE is one of the things we got her for her first bday!
I totally have something COOL for Mike for Daddy's Day from Lindsay. I can't wait to post a pic of it on the blog. Best part about it...it was FREE!! Seriously, that sounds bad but you'll understand when you see it next week. It took a ton of time but no money! He'll LOVE it and not just because it was free! Ha!ha!

Aunt KK and I went shopping yesterday for Lindsay's birthday and she got her a super cool musical activity table. Lindsay has a really cool table from her cousins but she won't stand at it. She'd rather sit and put the pieces in the bin. This one she's getting will promote the standing and pulling up. Thanks Aunt KK! Of course Aunt Karen is babysitting for us tomorrow night so Lindsay is getting her bday gift early so they can play together.

Is this the first post in ages where there isn't a pic of Lindsay? WOW...take a break people, we're going for broke next week with the BIRTHDAY BLOG!

Bye for now!

CRAB

Lindsay was determined to get to her float...
Notice the green block in each picture to follow her progress...
Lindsay uses a modified crab crawl. She still will not get that one leg out from under...

Finally she's made it...
Look, I'm a crab!

This was the day we realized we needed to go gate shopping when we got home!