The Last Month

The last month has been crazy in our house. On January 15th Tyson turned 5! We had a party with his friends this year and we had Elmo come too. Tyson still tells everyone that there was a "giant Elmo" at his party. It is pretty cute. There were also 12 kids at the party between the ages of 18 months and 5 years. My mom and sister Joellen came down to help. We also recruited our friends Jason and Dani to help too. It was quite a madhouse to say the least.

On February 8th Charlie turned 1! I absolutely cannot believe that he is one already. Time is flying! We had him baptized in the church in Perry on his actual birthday. The priest did a great job at making the ceremony very family oriented. During the ceremony he had all our nieces and nephews join us in the front of the church. It was pretty cool. Charlie thought it was all really funny for some reason so in all the pictures he is looking at the camera, smiling away. When the priest was ready to pour water on his head Charlie about jumped out of my arms because he thought it was bath time. He loves his baths!

Charlie with his Godparents, Blake and Lisa All the nieces/nephews except Joe!

After the baptism we had a pizza birthday party for Tyson, Charlie, my niece Bella, and my nephew Will. It was really fun and almost all of our family made it. It truly amazes me that our family can still get together as often as we can. I don't know what we would do without all of them!

I was reminded this month how short life can actually be and how things can change in an instant. My friend's 11 month old niece, Cora, was diagnosed with cancer and as we celebrated Charlie's birthday and baptism she passed away. Life really is too short to take anything for granted! Please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers!