Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Our baby turns one!

Where does the time go? I can't believe that a year has already come and gone. On April 3, our sweet Rylee turned one. This is the first picture that we took of her(born via C-section). I love it, it's like, "I'm here world!"
What a pure joy this child has been. A true blessing. She is so full of personality and spunk and is just sweet and silly. She's got a tender heart, but is also tough as nails (she has to be with that brother of hers).

She was such an enjoyable baby. I remember just being able to sit and hold her forever. I loved her pure sweetness. She's always been happy and content. Hardly cried, slept well- dream baby.

It's funny thinking back now- she was born during tax season, we had just moved here, just finished potty training Jace, we were in the heat of building our house and were living with my parents at the time. It was full of busyness and chaos and I was nearly at my breaking point. And then Heavenly Father sends us this perfect and beautiful little daughter and it was truly a tender mercy. We absolutely love and adore this girl.
Rylee through her first year:

Melts her dad's heart.
Sweet!

5 comments:

Suzie said...

She is beautiful Natalie!

kiddle97 said...

Precious! That photo of her after birth was amazing.

Jillian said...

She is soo cute. I love her cheeks. Every picture she is adorable in!

a-anderson said...

I can't wait to see Rylee. She is darling. I love all the old pictures you posted of her. I feel a lot like you did last year with everything that will be going on when Crew is born. But you give me hope that I can get through it.

Steph said...

I had my little girl c-section too and I really wish I had a picture of her birth like that. That is really so neat. Mine was an emergency c-section so we had a few other things on the mind, but for the next one I'm getting a picture like that because it really captured that first moment she entered the world!! For a mom, it really takes your breath away:)