Grace's FIRST Birthday and Easter!

Our little baby is now a toddler! It is so hard to believe that 1 year ago I was still trying to get adjusted to life as a Mommy! This year has been AMAZING! We had our 'rough' days in the beginning with the colic and feeding issues! Overall, our baby has developed into a fun-loving little girl! All the different ages and stages have continued to be so much fun! It is always neat to watch her accomplish a new milestone or make a new sound, or face, etc. I truly don't know where this year has gone though!

We were blessed to be able to go to AL this past weekend and spend Grace's first Birthday as well as Easter with our family. It was so nice that Grace's 1st birthday fell on Easter this year! It 'hit' me a while back about how special that is. To celebrate Grace's first year of life on THE DAY we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That is the most important day of all because that CHANGED EVERYTHING for us! We now have a hope and a future because of that! I pray that Grace will quickly understand this...!

We celebrated her Birthday on Saturday because of this, and had many family and friends over at my Mom's and Gary's to celebrate. Grace REALLY enjoyed her cake and 'dug' right in to it!! She was also blessed with many gifts in which we are very thankful! She LOVED being around the children that weekend. She has got to where she loves being around and playing with other babies, toddlers, and kids. She will just watch older kids and laugh at them when they play and she gets so excited when she gets down in the floor to play with them. She will bounce up and down in excitement!

Grace was showing everyone how old she is:) (We didn't even ask her to do this.. funny enough, she just kept holding up 1 finger!!:)

On Easter, she got her Easter goodies and we went to church with Mom and Gary. We later had a wonderful and BIG lunch with my family and spent time with all of them at my Grandmother's. Grace even went outside and we sat her in the grass to see if she would go after an egg on the ground (my little cousin's were hunting eggs). (By the way, Grace LOVED playing with those little plastic eggs!) Grace didn't know what to think about the grass on her legs though, so she didn't move!:) We then went to spend time with Adam's family and got to see our new nephew!!! (More on that later..)