Cute Cousins

Rhonen and our beautiful niece, Ekite. How cute are these two?!

Let's Party!

We threw Rhonen a little birthday party at the park over the weekend. We were so lucky to have a lot of family and friends in town for the event. Rhonen loved all of the attention! We had bubbles, animal hats, watermelon, strawberry cupcakes, and yummy sandwiches. It was a wonderful day and a great way to send him off into his second year.

Happy Birthday to you...

1 Year...Happy Birthday Baby Rhonen

Good Morning Birthday boy!



Playing with his new toy,

Banana Bites for breakfast,

First Cupcake,
Happy Birthday to our sweet baby boy!

Happy Mother's Day

What a wonderful holiday, Mother's Day! It's a day to be appreciated and pampered by those that love you. A day for reflection. A day when simple tasks become the most important task at hand. It's a day that we, as mothers, feel we deserve... because after all the self sacrifice we should get at least one day to be worshiped!

On this day last year I was going into labor with Rhonen. Eighteen hours later he was welcomed into this world and our lives changed immensely. Mother's day for me is a reminder. The beginning of a life, the pure joy of a child, and the power of being a mother. It is an instinct that comes sometimes later in life, but has somehow always been there, dormant inside waiting for a child to awaken it. Nothing has ever given me more joy, sense of worth, or purpose than mothering. I look into his eyes and know that as I am helping teach and mold him, he is making me into the person I always wanted to be, a mother.

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