Our baby girl is ONE!

Addison is now ONE! Of course she has changed tremendously over the course of the year, but that is to be expected. She grew, she developed, and she got cuter with every waking day.

Addison loves to play and she thinks it’s fun to feed Snoop (and so does he)! She likes to share her toys and likes to put her toys in bags, buckets, and containers...and then dump them out again! She also discovered the (loud) sound pots make when you bang them on the floor.

This month we battled a couple of weeks of sickness. After an ear infection and case of croup, we are happy to have our girl healthy and back to her normal happy self. She now weighs 17.6 pounds and is growing like a weed.

This month we enjoyed Easter festivites. 

The Easter bunny is not so bad...as long as mom and dad are close by!

Growing up, I remember Easter as one of my favorite times of the year. We loved preparing for Easter by waving our palms at church. This meant (1) a cute new outfit, (2) waving of palms down the aisle, and (3) palm "window shades" for the car ride home. This year not only did the excitement from my childhood come back - Addison had a cute new dress and we waved palms during the processional - but more importantly I reflected on the amazing sacrifice we were celebrating - the start of a week in the life of Jesus that would change our eternal lives forever. Praise the Lord! Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

Ready to wave my palm!

Growing up, I remember waking up Easter morning to find our special baskets filled with gifts from the Easter bunny. Last year, Addison fit in her special basket. This year, she was excited for her gifts.

Addison Easter 2011, Easter 2012 

Growing up, we celebrated Easter with a huge egg hunt at my Memaw and Papaw’s with my sister and 6 cousins. Every year we would hunt eggs, empty our loot - cheerios when we were little and coins for laundry while we were in college - and re-hide/hunt the empty eggs all afternoon. Addison enjoyed a hunt at school. She really cornered the market on the rubber duckies!

Easter morning was bright, sunny and warm. We were happy to have Honey in town. There’s nothing like our church on a Sunday morning with such a vivid reminder of just how important Jesus’ death and resurrection was for our salvation. He lives!

I have enjoyed sharing our monthly adventures over the last year with you, our friends, family, and followers. While blog posts may no longer come on a monthly basis, we will continue to post and keep you updated on the goings on of our life.

This last year has definitely proven that parenthood is absolutely the best adventure ever! Happy birthday to our sweet girl! Stay tuned for birthday party pictures!

Amen and Pass the Butter!
Marcy