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One Year Ago....

One year ago today I started my little blog (ok, I actually started it on May 5 but moved it to its current site on May 12 and forgot all about that old wordpress blog, so technically it's 1 year and one week....)  In the past year I've posted 181 times which is about every other day- not too bad considering how infrequently I've been posting lately!  Hopefully I'll be able to keep posting at this rate for the next year!

Thought I'd post a few pictures from my very first Mother's Day.  We really had a nice day.  My parents sent me some rose bushes, Paul's parents gave me a lavendar plant, Little Paul made the cutest garden stepping stone with his name and footprints in it at daycare, and I received lovely cards from both Pauls... I didn't QUITE get to sleep in but I did get to go to Homegoods and TJ Maxx ALL BY MYSELF (and was good and didn't buy anything!) which was nice.  We had a great dinner (Paul smoked a whole chicken on the smoker, we also had avocado salad, corn on the cob and lobsters!!) and we all spent some time in the backyard lounging on a blanket and just enjoying the day.  I told Paul that the one thing I really wanted was for him to take some pictures of me with LP as I'm usually the one behind the camera and so he did....  Enjoy the pics- and look how great LP is doing with sitting up all by himself!!!

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We need a little work on the smiling for the camera thing!

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Those eyes!  The way he sucks his bottom lip in!  That left eyebrow that moves just like his Daddy's!!  I can't stand the cuteness- gets me every time!


And here's one sitting up inside wearing his hip new bandana bib- I was so tired of taking pictures of him wearing bibs that I thought I'd make some that are a little bit cuter!  I love the way they turned out and need to make some more!

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